how do you treat a real christmas tree so as the needles dont fall off?

Answer 1

How to Care for Your Farm-Grown Fresh Christmas Tree

When a Christmas tree is cut, over half of its weight is water. With proper care, you can maintain the quality of your displayed trees.

Below are a number of tips relating to the care of displayed trees:

Displaying trees in water in a traditional reservoir type stand is the most effective way of maintaining their freshness and minimizing needle loss problems.

Make a fresh cut to remove about a 1/2-inch thick disk of wood from the base of the trunk before putting the tree in the stand. Make the cut perpendicular to the stem axis. Don't cut the trunk at an angle, or into a v-shape, which makes it far more difficult to hold the tree in the stand and also reduces the amount of water available to the tree.

Once home, place the tree in water as soon as possible. Most species can go 6 to 8 hours after cutting the trunk and still take up water. Don't bruise the cut surface or get it dirty.

If needed, trees can be temporarily stored for several days in a cool location. Place the freshly cut trunk in a bucket that is kept full of water.

To display the trees indoors, use a stand with an adequate water holding capacity for the tree. As a general rule, stands should provide 1 quart of water per inch of stem diameter. Devices are available that help maintain a constant water level in the stand.

Use a stand that fits your tree. Avoid whittling the sides of the trunk down to fit a stand. The outer layers of wood are the most efficient in taking up water and should not be removed.

Keep displayed trees away from sources of heat (fireplaces, heaters, heat vents, direct sunlight). Lowering the room temperature will slow the drying process, resulting in less water consumption each day.

The temperature of the water used to fill the stand is not important and does not affect water uptake.

Check the stand daily to make sure that the level of water does not go below the base of the tree. With many stands, there can still be water in the stand even though the base of the tree is no longer submerged in water.

Drilling a hole in the base of the trunk does not improve water uptake.

Use of lights that produce low heat, such as miniature lights, will reduce drying of the tree.

Always inspect light sets prior to placing them on the tree. If worn, replace with a new set.

Do not overload electrical circuits.

Always turn off the tree lights when leaving the house or when going to bed.

Monitor the tree for freshness. After Christmas or if the tree is dry, remove it from the house.

Go to www.realchristmastrees.org and type in your ZIP code to find a recycling program near you.

Never burn any part of a Christmas tree in a wood stove or fireplace.

Prepared by Dr. Gary Chastagner and Dr. Eric Hinesley
Edited by the Scientific Research Committee of the National Christmas Tree Association

Answer 2

First thing you do when you get it home is to cut a couple of inches off the bottom, you can also have this done where you buy it. Fill a 5 gal bucket with HOT water, and stir in a little corn syrup and bleach, this helps preserve your tree. You can also buy a prepared mix. Stand your tree in the bucket. The hot water will go open up the cells in the tree so the water will go up into it. Let it set overnight. You can spray your tree with an anti-dessicant, Cloud 9 or Wiltpruf, to help keep it from drying out so quickly. You get that at a garden center. When you have it in your tree stand and in the house, make sure you keep water in the stand, and use warm water. Keep your tree away from heat vents, that will dry it out really quick. Your tree should be good for about 10 days-2 weeks. You can also get a spray that will help make it fireproof.
By the way, hairspray is flammable. Bad idea.

Answer 3

You can go to a bit of expense and buy silicone sprays to hold the needles but that can cost rather a lot if it is a big tree, you could also keep the tree in a bucket of wet sand, you could also shop around for your tree at a specialists and ask for one that will retain their needles, some hold their needles for longer than others.
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Answer 4

This year we've bought an artificial tree that looks so real, the only way visitors could tell it's not real is that there are no needles lying around on the floor underneath.

so it comes with this little bag of needles that you have to sprinkle around the base...

Answer 5

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Be sure your tree has plenty of water in the stand so it can drink. If you didn't cut off an inch from the bottom when you got it, do it before you put it up and that will help it last longer.

Answer 6

cut about one to two inches off the trunk when you get it home,put some water in the tree stand with some corn syrup,make sure that ou keep it full at all times,my wife puts our tree up the Friday after Thanksgiving and the tree lasts until the 2d of Janurary

Answer 7

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Answer 8

buy a good tree that doesn't seem to be dying, and keep it in water. when you put it up.
my parents keep our tree in the backyard in the cold until about a week or so before christmas.
keep feeding it water when it's up.
i also suggest not spraying it with hairspray, because christmas trees are supposed to smell like christmas pine smell, not toxic hair salon.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

they do fall off...it's normal. there's no way to make them not fall off. but watering it everyday will make it so they don't fall off so quickly.