There are several brands of the robot Christmas tree available. The most popular one, Grow & Stow is sold at Home Depot stores across New Jersey, if inventories haven’t dried up.

The popular Grow & Stow uses a remote control to “grow” the tree from storage height up to 9 feet tall. Most robot trees have customizable LED lights and some feature branch-fluffing tech or ...

Christmas trees grow slowly, about 12 to 14 inches a year, and can take 10 years to go from seed to harvest. Most trees he plants are 3 to 5 years old by the time he buys them from nurseries.