{"id":4941,"date":"2016-12-01T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2016-11-26T19:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T00:00:34","slug":"purchasing-a-cut-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2016\/12\/01\/purchasing-a-cut-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchasing A Cut Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cut Christmas trees for sale<\/p><\/div>\n

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Christmas Tree Farm in SW Virginia<\/p><\/div>\n

Around the holidays lots of people head out to local Christmas farms to purchase a tree. Local farms offer the best freshly cut trees that should\u00a0last 3 or more weeks inside your home. Trees for sale in urban lots may have been harvested \u00a0between 1-4 weeks earlier and shipped to your vicinity.<\/p>\n

A cut Christmas tree should\u00a0last longer if you choose\u00a0one that\u2019s fresh (branches are pliable and needles are not dried out). Keep the butt end of the trunk immersed in water until you are ready to bring the tree indoors for decorating.<\/p>\n

Here are some tips in purchasing a tree:
\n1. Test for freshness by holding a branch between your thumb and fingers and pulling lightly toward you. If very few or no needles fall off, the tree is fresh. If the end of a branch bends easily, that\u2019s also a sign of freshness. If you observe some yellowing, browning, or falling of interior needles, that’s okay. But, if you pick up a tree a few inches and slam\u00a0it back down, lots of needles shouldn\u2019t wind up on the ground.
\n2. Most tree lots will usually offer to\u00a0cut the trunk of the tree for you. This allows for fast water uptake. You need to get the tree home and into water quickly.
\n3. If you\u2019re not ready to take your cut tree indoors, set\u00a0it in a bucket of water and keep it on a porch or in the garage\u2014where it\u2019s cool and\u00a0sheltered from wind and sun.
\n4. Freshly\u00a0cut 2-3\u00a0inch off the bottom (butt end) of the tree before bringing tree indoors.
\n5. Inside your home, tree will absorb nearly\u00a0a gallon of water the first 24\u00a0hours. Thereafter, every 3-4 days, check and add water to the\u00a0tree stand reservoir.
\n6.Keep cut trees (and all greenery) away from fireplaces and other heat sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Around the holidays lots of people head out to local Christmas farms to purchase a tree. Local farms offer the best freshly cut trees that should\u00a0last 3 or more weeks inside your home. Trees for sale in urban lots may have been harvested \u00a0between 1-4 weeks earlier and shipped to your vicinity. A cut Christmas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[977,640,604,979,978,917,808,729,630,831,1,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9308,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions\/9308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}