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Real Xmas tree will it die

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Winternights22 · 25/11/2022 09:00

Hi I bought a real Xmas tree . Not a rooted one. I didn't realise its still 4 weeks to Xmas. So is likely to die before Xmas Is over . Would it make Any sense to leave it in my garden for a week or 2?

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mindutopia · 25/11/2022 12:36

We get a cheap old Norway spruce every year on the 1st of December. Lasts perfectly fine until after Christmas. In fact, I'm not sure we've ever taken it down until 1st or 2nd week of January. If you can leave it outside for another week, great, but I think it will be fine if you keep it well watered and not right next to the radiator.

Wishiwasatailor · 25/11/2022 12:43

we usually put ours up the last weekend in November but we cut it from a Christmas tree farm and it lasts for a couple of months

MugginsOverEre · 25/11/2022 13:12

Depends on the tree. I had one a couple of years ago that wouldn't die. After Christmas we chucked it in the garden meaning to cut it up and bin it. We forgot. And carried on forgetting. We finally chopped its still completely green arse up in April Blush
It was a cut tree. I guess being dumped upright against the fence meant it was still able to draw up water from the wet lawn.

Last year's lived til we cut it up two weeks after New Year. Those were both Nordmann Fir's. The Norway Spruce we bought one year didn't make it til Christmas and we bought it in the first week of December. Jaggy wee bastard that was too.

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BingleBongleBoo · 25/11/2022 16:15

I have my real tree up for 3 weeks before Xmas. It's in a stand and I top the water up that it sits in. I even have a heated floor and it does fine.

20viona · 25/11/2022 16:26

Yes it will be saggy as anything by then especially if you have your heating on as it's getting cooler. Way too early for a real tree.

WaddleAway · 25/11/2022 16:29

We get a real one on the 1st December every year and it’s fine until the 5th Jan. Just keep it watered and not next to a radiator.

GerardWay123 · 25/11/2022 16:56

The worst one we had (bought early December) just kept dropping needles. Each evening we would hear a whoosh as a load of needles dropped and jingle/jangled all over the baubles. It was basically a 7 foot twig a few days before Christmas Day. DH suggested buying another one but I was fond of the blo*dy thing by then. We always call it our 'nightmare before Christmas tree'. Happy memories.

VejaVagVagina · 03/12/2022 15:44

Babdoc · 25/11/2022 09:31

Our local garden centre cuts all its trees at the end of November, which is far too early, and even sawing the bottom off the trunk and keeping it in the cold garden in water doesn’t work - they have lost all their pine smell long before Christmas and are looking tired and yellowish by the big day.
I now get my Fraser fir delivered by a company that cuts them fresh to order, the day before dispatch. It arrives about ten days pre Christmas, smelling of that gorgeous citrussy, piney Fraser scent, which no other conifer can match. And it looks dark green and glossy right through to Epiphany.

How absolutely divine!

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