Christmas Lights on Pre Lit Trees If lots and lots of lights on a Christmas tree are your cup of tea, I generally recommend an artificial (bottle brush) style tree.

A typical artificial Christmas tree has more lights per vertical foot of tree than the typical realistic Christmas tree. The reason being two fold: first, to keep the cost of the realistic style tree down, the manufactures reduces the number of lights. Second, the artificial Christmas tree typically has more branch tips than a realistic tree. Therefore, there are more branches for attaching lights.

Suitability for Ornaments If you are a huge fan of ornaments, I generally steer you toward an artificial (bottle brush) tree because you can easily bend and move the branches on the artificial Christmas trees to create space for your ornaments. The realistic Christmas trees are not as flexible. In fact, if you bend the branches too much on a realistic Christmas tree, you can rip the molded plastic tip and damage the look of the tree.