if buying christmas tree from a lot when is a good time to buy???

Question

this is going to be the 1st year we're buying a christmas tree. So any and all advise would be great. We're just gonna go to a lot . Becuase don't wanna drive too far. We live in Slidell,la 70458

Answer 1

buy it like 1-2 weeks before.

Answer 2

The best time is about 3 weeks before Christmas, so that way the you have the tree long enough to put presents under it and decorate it and it's not too long before Christmas that it starts dying and looking sad on the morning of Christmas and lasts a week or so after x-mas for new years. When you do buy the tree it is best to cut some off the bottom so when you put it in water it is a fresh part of the tree.

Answer 3

The best time to buy In my opinion would be about 2 - 3 weeks before Christmas. Otherwise you will get a lot of needles on the floor. and unless you like cleaning it isn't fun. Just make sure when you get it. The bottom limbs and the trunk is trimmed. Keep it watered and it should last for the 2-3 weeks. Oh and dont screw the tree stand too far into the tree. It will kill it even faster. No one likes a brown tree for Christmas.

Answer 4

If you want to enjoy the tree for the entire holiday season, I'd go the 1st week of December. Most Christmas Trees will hold their needles for 3-4 weeks. Some less, some more. But if you buy too early, you run the risk of the needles drying and falling by 12/24.

More info on the specific varities of Christmas trees, and how long they hold their needles, can be found at the site listed below.

Answer 5

Most trees on lots will be cut down if November. Since it is warm where you live, you won't be able to bring it inside too early or it will die and you will have needles everywhere. I think about 10 days or so before xmas is good. When you get it home, put it in a basement or shady area, cut about 1 inch up from the bottom and stand it in a bucket of water. Make sure to refill the water often. This will help the tree live longer.

Good luck.

Answer 6

We bought our Frasier fir last year about 3 weeks before Christmas and had no problems with excessive needle drops. The way I see it the vast majority of the trees will be cut at the same time, so you can go early and get it relatively fresh from the farm or wait and get it a couple more weeks after it has been cut and sitting around un-watered on the lot.

Answer 7

My husband is making our tree this year ... we had a 'fake tree' that we put together for the past eight years, but it was starting to fall apart, so I threw it away. My husband knows I am allergic to 'fresh trees' so he is going to get a closet rod and cut it into three 3' long sections and drill holes ... we can then 'post them' together and stick them to the 'holder' and we can add other 'dowels' and hang the lights and ornaments and garland on that. I know it sounds 'weird' but my husband is an artist, and he'll do it so that we can actually change the 'arrangement' of the 'branches' so we can have not just a 'Christmas tree' but an 'Easter Egg Tree' or just a 'display hanger' for things we want to show off. AND it's MUCH BETTER for the 'ecology' ... this is 'green week' and I think our 'alternative tree' could be considered a 'green alternative' since it will last FOREVER!

Answer 8

NC mountain tree farms have already cut the trees they'll be sending out all over the country.... so, if you want a real tree, get it as soon as you see them, bring it home, put it in water in a cold place like the garage... don't want the bucket of water to freeze, but you do want that tree to be cold!!!...if you can spritz it with water occasionally, so much the better!! .... like rain, it will provide humidity that will go a long way toward those needles staying fresh and holding on!!......... keep it that way until you're ready to put it up inside... as soon as the holiday is over, get it out of the house!!!.... warmth is the enemy of a fresh pine!!.... stand it up somewherein the back yard and hang peanut buttered pine cones rolled in bird seed on it for the little winged critters... and the squirrels, too.... string popcorn with the kids and hang that, too... you can have a Nature's Holiday with it that your little one and you will remember for a long time!!.... when it's totally brown, and spring is on it's way, cut off the limbs, chunk up the trunk and keep the wood for use in a firepit outside or to take with you camping.... don't use pine in your inside fireplace, please!!!.... just USE the thing, don't just put it on the curb to go to the landfill!!!.... please?

Answer 9

When you go to the lot shack the tree.. if needles fall off find another tree. After you get the tree home cut it to fit into your stand... and make sure you water it everyday!!!! If you let it dry out it will dye... become dry and the hot lights can start a fire!!! Merry Christmas!!

Answer 10

Well, the closer you buy to Christmas the less the tree will be dried out by Christmas which, as we all know, is a fire hazzard. Please ask the owners of the Christmas Tree Farm if they spray insecticide on their tree's. My brother bought a tree that was full of ticks. After they brought it inside and it warmed up they had a houseful of ticks.

Answer 11

go fake... and if you don't... wait until after x-mas take the live (dried up) tree out back and light it up (see how fast that sucker burns and you wont get a real tree ever again) if you want the smell get a spray or plug in... wait until (i hate to say) a few weeks b4... and take it down like 2 days after... you dont want to give it too much time to dry out (even if you have water in the base (when you cut down a tree (or a flower stem) you pinch the cells shut and its hard for it to get the water... )