Live Christmas Type Tree For Inside

[Smart Red]

To reiterate what the others have said:
1. dig the hole for the tree before the ground freezes. (check on root ball size before digging.)
2. Keep the hole insulated with straw or leaves and tarp for easy planting after the holidays.
3. Keep the soil that's removed from freezing so you can plant the tree.
4. Keep the tree well-watered and misted and (preferably if possible) in a cool room for the holidays.
5. Get the tree in the ground asap. Otherwise, keep it in your lovely, newly-decorated sun shed -- well watered -- until spring weather allows planting.
That is something I have always wanted to do, but never did. . . using a growing tree for Christmas and planting it for the future. Good luck.

 

[Nyboy]

Red this Christmas a good time to start.

 

[journey11]

It would be nice even to put one on the porch to decorate the entryway, then plant later. Do you have to protect the root ball from freezing while it's still in burlap?

 

[Nyboy]

I think I might end up going with outside by front door.

 

[catjac1975]

I think I might end up going with outside by front door.

I put 2 matching trees in front of my front steps. I now have quite a few big trees from growing those up. A few are ready to cut down for my indoor tree but I haven't got the heart to cut them.

 

[Nyboy]

Cat the ones by your front steps are they in ground or pots? I would have a hard time cutting down a healthy tree also.

 

[catjac1975]

Cat the ones by your front steps are they in ground or pots? I would have a hard time cutting down a healthy tree also.

I bought them and left them in pots for the holiday and then planted them in a predug hole after the holidays. They are 15 feet tall now-the size we buy for the indoor tree. The original plan was to someday get a "Free" Christmas tree out of it. Too beautiful to cut down. We will cut them when they outgrow their location. They have tiny pine cones all over them.

 

[Smart Red]

The potted trees outside the door sound really neat and much more likely to grow and thrive after the holidays. I could see something like that at my daughter's front door.

 

[catjac1975]

By keeping them outdoors you don't have the problem of them warming up and perhaps not surviving the transition back to the cold. The one I did bring in did survive without problem. Keeping them watered inside or out is important. We often have cold drizzly rain, like today, so the outdoors are not usually hard to remember to water.

 

[valley ranch]

In the 1930ies the folks had a live Fir tree that they had in the house from early December to after January 6 which is Eastern Christmas. The tree eventually had to be planted being too large, the pot also was larger. That tree today stand proudly, I won't guess it's size, very tall on 74th & Figueroa, in Southern California.