Hykolity 9 ft Prelit Tree With PE Foliage: One Page, Two Tip Counts, No Base Width

Our sums for a 9 ft tree

Our arithmetic on the maker's figures. The tree size calculator runs the same check for your own ceiling.

As the listing prints it

From the maker's product page, read November 14, 2026. A line that says "not stated" is a number the maker does not publish.

Scores, with the tip count taken from the bullets

Scores judge what the maker states, not a tree we set up. How we score.

Which tip count is right for this 9 ft tree, 5,179 or 1,854?

The page prints both: 575 tips per foot on one reading, 206 on the other.

A tip count is the number we divide by height to judge fullness. On the first reading the tree has 575 tips per foot, which is above the 400 that earns a 10 on our scale and above the 431 of the Best Choice 9 ft Aspen. On the second reading it has 206 tips per foot, which is a good tree and a lower rung, an 8.

Which figure we score with is a judgment call. We use the bullets, the higher figure, because they appear twice, in the first sentence of the foliage bullet and again in the item highlight. The spec table's 1,854 appears once. That is a count of mentions, not proof, which is why the table below carries both.

Our arithmetic on the two numbers printed on the maker's page, read November 14, 2026.

How bright is a 9 ft tree with 600 warm white LEDs?

A soft glow: 67 lights per foot, half the 133 of the Best Choice 9 ft Aspen.

Sixty-seven lights per foot earns a 7 on our lighting ladder, and the LED type adds one point. The glow will be gentler than on a tree with 100 or more bulbs per foot, but a gentle glow is what many people want from warm white.

The page says the bulbs operate independently so the remaining lights stay lit if one fails. It does not say how many strands there are, or what the tree does if a whole section goes out. The NFPA's advice for any tree is to read the maker's instructions for how many strands to connect, and to turn the lights off when you leave home.

Counts from each maker's page; per-foot figures are our division.

How much floor does the Hykolity need when no base width is printed?

Plan for up to a 76 in circle; the 9 ft trees that do print a width run from 35.5 to 64 in.

Without a width we plan from the nearest evidence. Among the 9 ft trees whose pages we read on November 14, 2026, the widths printed run from a 35.5 in pencil tree to a 64 in full one. The full trees among them print 53, 60 and 64 in, so measure for the worst case and treat a narrower tree as a bonus.

For height, our size table gives 9 ft 108 in, plus 5 in for a stand and 9 in for a topper: 122 in, or 10 ft 2 in. Use the tree size calculator with your own ceiling.

Our arithmetic: base plus 6 in on each side. Not a figure the maker prints.

What does a four section, hinged tree save you at setup and in storage?

Branches fall into place and the tree comes apart in four pieces.

The page calls the setup easy: hinged branches unfold, the four sections go one on top of another, and the design makes taking the tree down and storing it easier. Four sections for 9 ft is a modest number, which means each one is long, so measure the box before you pick a closet. Hinges matter more than they sound: branches that fold against the pole keep the tree in one piece, and a loose-branch tree makes you sort and fit every limb by color tag or letter each year.

What the page does not print is the time to fluff, the weight or the size of the box. The Best Choice Aspen prints a fluffing time of 1 to 1.5 hours for 9 ft and a weight of 44.5 lb, and with this tree we have neither.

Does the page write a safety mark, a warranty or a recall record?

Fire-resistant PVC is written; no mark, no warranty; no Hykolity recall at the CPSC on November 14, 2026.

The listing says fire-resistant PVC foliage, and it calls the PE and PVC mix lifelike. Molded PE is the plastic cast from real branches; PVC is the flat-cut plastic that fills in around it. How the two differ, and how to spot a PE tip by eye, is on the PE vs PVC page, because this listing states no share between them. It names no UL, ETL or CSA mark for the lights, so safety marks score 5 of 10, and it prints no warranty, so warranty and information score 2. A lab mark is how you know the lights were tested to UL 588, the standard for holiday lighting products. Electrical or lighting equipment turned up in 44 percent of the home tree fires NFPA counted from 2016 to 2020, which is why we ask for the mark on the tag.

We searched the CPSC recall database by title, product and description for Hykolity and for its maker, Changzhou Nanfang Enterprise, and found nothing. Read the plug and the cord tag for a lab mark when the tree arrives, and see the recalls page.

Written down, and welcome

• Realistic PE branches mixed with dense PVC, stated in the first bullet, a 10 on our needle scale
• 600 warm white LEDs, 67 per foot, wired so that the rest stay lit when one bulb fails
• Hinged branches and four sections, which keep both setup and storage manageable
• A metal stand and a model number (CTA-1617) that the seller can look up

Missing from the page

• Two tip counts, 5,179 and 1,854, that disagree by a factor of 2.8
• No base width, so the floor needed is a guess
• No weight, no warranty, no UL, ETL or CSA mark: only fire-resistant PVC is written

It fits when you

• Want a tree whose foliage is described as PE, and are ready to ask the seller which tip count is right
• Have a tall room and can measure a floor circle up to 76 in across, since no width is printed
• Prefer a soft warm white glow to a multicolor show

A tall room and a patient buyer

This is a tree for a household that cares most about foliage and warm light and has the time to write to the seller about the tip count. A buyer who wants every number on the page should compare it with the trees in the 9 ft pre-lit ranking, where the Best Choice Aspen prints a width and a weight. It also appears in the overall list.

Two tip counts, one tree

Our call on the 9 ft PE tree