Help! Christmas tree is set into wood, care tips please?

twiglet98

For the first time in many years we have a real Christmas tree! DD has just come back from the farm shop with one, it's about 5 feet tall, the trunk is cut and set into a thick round block of wood. No care instructions with it and way back when their father lived here, we always had trees with roots that got planted in a bucket.

The heating is on for an hour morning and night, with an open fire in the sitting room most nights, so it's going to get quite dry. Should the block stand in a bucket of water, or do we take it out of the block and get one of those stands with a clamp and a water reservoir? The girls want to decorate it but it's outside for now! Any advice gratefully received, thank you all.

p4girl

I got one of those last year!!!!

I'd never seen anything like it, but actually I loved that we DIDN'T have to mess around putting it into a holder, getting it straight and clamping it in.

Ours went in the bay window, right next to the main heater. We didn't water it at all - and it was fine until we took at down at New Year, altho' to be fair we didn't buy it til about the 18th December. But it was a decent type of tree and only about three needles dropped the whole time we had it.

I'd say turn your heater down a notch and enjoy looking at it!

wallbash

Stand tree with block in a bucket of water?

Was an inch taken from the trunk , at shop

welshsue

We have had those types for the last couple of years. We take ours out of the block and clamp into a holder and put water in it. We also put sugar or honey in the water as this is meant to feed it and keep the needles on. This has worked for us although we don't buy the tree too early.
My brother in law used to run a pub and they used to put the beer slops in with the tree and it always used to survive. One very happy tree!!!!.