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How to keep a Christmas Tree alive?
Any suggestions?
This will be our first real tree. I want to get it on Black Friday. But I don't want it to die before Christmas. Help!
My 2u2 are 16 months apart
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Re: How to keep a Christmas Tree alive?
For the first week to 10 days the tree will drink up water like a sponge, so check it every day. Once in the house keep checking the water lever daily and add water to make sure the base of the trunk is submerged.
Also, when you're shopping for a tree, be sure to smell it. It should have a fresh, piney smell. Also hold a branch and pull it towards you. It no needles fall off, the tree is fresh. If needles fall off pass on it.
I agree on the watering - check it every day for the first 2 weeks.
Before you put it in the tree stand, make a fresh cut if you can.
Also, the first few times, use warm to hot water for the first day - to help open the tree's 'pores'. Never let the water go below the bottom of the tree...the sap will close said 'pores' and it will hinder water from getting in there after you fill the stand again.
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i would not recommend getting a live Christmas tree a month before Christmas. We always wait until mid December.
ditto pp about cutting the trunk again before bringing it in the house.
As long as you don't keep the heat up too high in your house, it should be fine. We always get ours the day after Thanksgiving and usually throw it out around the 15th or so of January and it's just fine.
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Thank you so much. I knew it was possible to have a Christmas tree that long.
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Ditto this, we do the same
Ditto everyone! I've always cut down our Christmas tree on the first Saturday of December, and I leave it up until mid-January.
When you're choosing one, make sure it has NO yellow or brown needles anywhere, and give it a little shake to see if a lot of needles fall off. You don't want the needles to come off too easily.
Definitely cut a half inch or so off the bottom right before you put it in water, and water it a lottttt.
One last thing - I believe it's the White and Norway Spruces that lose lots of needles, so beware. We had a white spruce last year and OMG...it was practically bare by the time we got it through all the doorways and onto the curb.
We keep ours this long as well and it always stays fresh. We just make sure they cut the stump off and we try to get it in water within 30 minutes of that happening to make sure it absorbs well and doesn't close up. I would say ours would less longer than mid January if we wanted it up that long!