2007-12-17 16:41:55 · 6 answers · asked by Jim G 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
If you put it into a Christmas tree stand with water container filled with 2 parts water mixed with 1 part glycerin, the glycerin will open the pores of cut face, the tree has a better water supply, survives and keeps his needles more than half as long again.
2007-12-18 05:23:54 · answer #1 · answered by mejxu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello,
It is very easy to be in the business of Christmas trees here in Oregon. I am no different and spent several years in it myself.
Preserving a cut Christmas tree is imposable. Christmas trees when cut do not grow back roots like some other plant species.
Your Christmas tree is already several years old. The bigger the Christmas tree the older it is, thus more it costs to buy.
If you truly want a round the year tree buy a rooted tree. This still does not mean it will survive. These trees like the cold and like water, hence why they grow so well in Oregon where there is plenty of rain and the weather gets cool.
One thing you can do before throwing out your tree is strip it of its bark. See the round bumps on the trunk, pop one. Smell your hand? This is the smell people like. By stripping the bark before you toss it you can put this in a pot of boiling water and your hole house will smell like that Christmas tree :0)
This bark can last for ever if in a cool dry place.
Hope this helps.
2007-12-18 02:32:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put some sugar into the water that you daily water your tree with. It'll stay perkier longer with this little addition!
2007-12-18 00:49:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
cryogenics? (shrug)
you can pour some liquid nitrogen on it....
also salt is very preserving, you can hold it in a salt bath for many years.
If you bury it in the ground and leave it there for a couple thousand years, it will become petrified and become preserved in the fossil record....
plant it outside?
dematerialize it and keep it in stasis?
Oh you probably mean doing something [i]reasonable[/i].
ok, i don't know, lol.
2007-12-18 00:50:41 · answer #4 · answered by Farren 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
formaldehyde...
photography...
fire...oh wait, that's a good way to destroy a christmas tree.
Umm...honestly, there's not much you can do. When it dries out, it's pretty well gone. Freezing it helps, but if you want to continue looking at it, then freezing it isn't really applicable.
2007-12-18 00:52:03 · answer #5 · answered by ninjaphobos 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Farren forgot lucite. Personally, that's my favorite.
2007-12-18 12:26:48 · answer #6 · answered by John R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋