Got your tree up yet?

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thekid:

I go to the Home Depot. I'll pop for a $40 tree (7'), but I'm too cheap to pay $60 or $80 for a dead tree. I need to put an evergreen in a pot on the back deck and wheel that in to decorate every year.

I didn't mix up the special tree watering stuff this year, either. I didn't notice that it helped last year. Do you just keep water in your tree holder?

sugar water will help set the needles on a dead tree, instead of cutting the tree off flat cut it at a 45 degree angle and soak it for a day in a bucket of sugar water.

then just keep the holder full from the bucket of solution you used to soak the tree in.

Do not listen to this idiot. Some asshole told me to put sugar water in my stand last year and a week later it smelled like my tree puked all over itself. At first I thought one of the dogs puked somewhere, but it was coming from the tree. I know it was the sugar water that caused it.

Bullshit, what kind of tree did you have balsam? or white fir? they are the only tree's that stink when they get wet, and the sugar had nothing to do with it.