I have a Christmas tree in a pot. What to do with it?

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I have picked one by the bins today. It is so pretty and looks very healthy.
Can I save it? Keep it in a pot or plant in the garden? If so when? We have a south east facing garden. And a bit of a north west facing front garden. Both have space.
Of If I keep it in a pot do I need a bigger one?
Anything to be aware of?

I've just planted one of these I saw on gardeners world the other week.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/382109161578
Last Jan I bought a nordman bare root and then brought it in at Christmas. Not the main tree as not big enough, but it was lovely and glossy. That was £10 too Inc postage.

Abies koreana is great, because it produces cones very young. I have one “dwarf” prostrate one which is fighting heathers and produces cones but not every year, and one I grew from seed which is about 8inches high and I’m hoping for cones soon.

I just bought our third tree. The first two Norway spruces are still in pots! No. 1 (25 yo) is now 20' high, has rooted itself into the ground through a drainage hole and has flowered twice (I have seedlings from the cones). No. 2 is 6' now and still portable but is looking a bit bare. I decorate it outside. No. 3 is a 2.5' Tesco Nordmann and has very little root so may not survive. It was in a pot with no drainage when I got it so I had to repot quickly. In all cases they have been potted on to twice the size of original pot and then larger as needed, and in acid John Innes as a conifer forest would be. Repot and keep your fingers crossed!

I bought one of the little potted trees for outside - have put it into a bigger pot with a drainage hole and topped it up with good compost and am hopeful it will survive. It always makes me sad to see abandoned Christmas trees. I never knew about the
boiling roots so they die and people buy new ones - there's something inherently evil in that!

Well, it may save a few people from being overshadowed by next door’s 70 foot fir. (Personally, I have no sympathy with someone who moves into a house expecting next door’s trees to remain the same height for evermore)

@MereDintofPandiculation I'm surrounded by leylandii - unfortunately it's mine! It really is a bugger to keep on top of!
I'm tempted to cut it back by half, the next time I get it trimmed.

I have 2 pot grown Xmas trees which have done their 3rd & 4th Xmas respectively.

Re pot into a larger pot, use ericaceous compost, keep it in a shady corner of the garden, water it during dry weather and feed it weekly in summer with ericaceous plant food.

By next Xmas it may have a couple of inches of new growth on it and you can bring it inside again. And then repeat.

I think I can see the budding cones already. Monty Don said about them being produced young

I bet there was a run on abies koreana after Monty Don featured one.