Originally Posted by a.c.

Mercy wrote:
My friend and I staggered home with a living tree to decorate for
Christmas, and we'd like to try and keep the poor thing living so we
can plant it in the garden after Christmas.

It appears to be in good health, and is in a fairly large pot (the tree
itself is just over six feet tall).

How can we best look after the tree, particularly in terms of any
watering? The man at the shop where we bought it was very blase about
what we did with it and wasn't much help.

Thanks,

Mercy


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Mercy

This may seem a bit strange and at 6 foot I'm not sure if it'll work.
Practice some really bad pruning technique. Nip off the leader, though
in your case, cut it off. But not down to the next bud/branch. i.e.
leave a stalk/stem which will almost certainly not shoot fresh growth,
but will instead loose what ever needles are left on the stem, become
dry looking and quite, quite dormant. This will be quite ugly so invest
in some sort of ornamant which can fit down over the top whilst in the
house.
Remaining in the pot, feed and keep well watered, during the growing
season.
Ours is now 3 years old. It gets brought in a week to 10 days before
christmas and remains insitu until some day in january when we're
finally bothered to to it back out. Which we do as ; in at night for a
few days and out all day.