First Couple Rows

After spiraling around for 4 rows of branches, your tree should look like this one. Or, if you have a silly little boy like mine, you have just made a most interesting hat for him!
Hmmm, this last pic didn't come out very good.
Now after 4 rows of treble branches, you're ready to do dc branches.

So now each branch will get a little smaller, and the rows will go quicker too!

Each branch now will go like this;

dc, ch1,

dc, ch1,

dc, ch1,

dc, ch2 (ch3 for more pointy branches if you like)

dc, ch1

dc, ch1

dc, ch1

And you will now only skip 3 posts between branches. Try to make sure your branches are not lining up over each row, you don't want them in perfect rows over each other. You can adjust how many posts you skip between branches to get the next branch where you want it. This pattern is very flexible in this way.

You want 3 spiraled rows of dc branches.