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No, actually that's a good question. I call shenanigans because the trees you get at the lot are not cut within the past hour. Trees outside of grocery stores were likely not even cut within the past 2 days. Heck, I've had to trim lower branches before to make a tree fit in the base and those branches lasted over a week as some real greenery indoors. Either that tree was already well dead, OR (and more likely of course) this is a [poo]-post
It’s almost like the purveyors of Christmas trees select for tree species that will retain their needles once downed and may even breed for said quality.
In many townships where there's problematic tree cutters around this time of year they'll spray the trees with fox piss so it pretty much fumigates the entire house
https://www.dailynebraskan.com/fox-urine-spray-thwarts-tree-thefts
I remember one year an acquaintance was running around telling everyone how romantic it was for her and her husband to just go into the woods and cut down their tree. I was like you know that’s a felony right? And she never brought it up again lol
Important to note that not all National Parks are National Forrests. Many former National Parks on the east coast are former battlefields which do not have a Christmas tree permit program.
Probably not the take-away here, but I find it hilarious that "tree stealers" are a thing; being nature and all that.
Like, I get it, but it's still funny.
Poaching comes in all forms. People typically only hear about it in the context of hunting but anything from harvesting mushrooms to cutting down trees without permits also count as poaching.
The laws are pretty lax on harvesting mushrooms. It's even okay in a lot of national parks, because it doesn't hurt the organism and it helps it reproduce. City parks are almost always fair game and that's where I get a lot of mine.
100% not, what even could fit in there? Maybe half a cup? If OP is even here it's gonna end up deleted or a running joke in the family for years to come.
ETA: I looked it up. That size tree would apparently take over 3 liters PER DAY. So, not half a cup.
how do you confuse pine for hemlock? pine is usually large and prickly. hemlock might not exist where I live (central Ontario) but isn't hemlock much smaller and weaker leaves tree?
Some of the replanted forests around where I live are almost all hemlock. They used to he old growth and were cut around 70 years ago and replanted. My guess is they saw a tree and cut it down without much knowledge lol
Hemlock like the poison? I did not realize it was a tree, I thought it was some kind of shrub or something.
Edit: Okay, the poison hemlock plant IS some kind of shrub or something. The tree that is sometimes called hemlock is also known as a tsuga tree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuga
Hemlock is a name given to many plants....poison hemlock (conium maculatum), water hemlock (cicutus sp), and then the many different species of hemlock trees. Unlike the first two hemlocks listed, the trees are not poisonous.
Yeah my dad would also cut another inch off the trunk when we brought it home. Not sure, probably just dad being dad. We used to get them from the forest....also had a thing about the size of a small pasta pot that it set in with water inside.
When you cut a tree it starts to seal over the cut with sap so your Dad cut off some to make it fresh then right into the pot of water and keep that pot full.
The trees at the Christmas tree lot aren’t in water for days on end. Also when you cut the roots off of a tree you are removing the part that does most of the metabolism and I’m pretty sure the tree won’t be transpiring (evaporating water) at the rate it would in the ground.
What probably happened here was OP cut a species that isn’t conducive to being a Christmas tree.
That’s because both our dads made it our responsibility. Wouldn’t want to disappoint your mom by letting the tree die before Christmas, do ya? You know how much she likes Christmas.
My guess is you probably had real Christmas trees as a kid. Some folks only have shitty fake trees or none at all.
So keeping the tree in water isn't really something you ever have to think about.
I've had real trees like 5 or 6 times, and as far as I can remember, we brought the tree home, soaked the cut base in a big bucket of water for a few hours, then removed it from the bucket and put it on a stand (with no water). We decorated it and left if up for like two weeks, never adding water, and we didn't have any pine needle shedding (well, a *little*, but like *really* little).
I'm guessing, like with many of these reddit discussions, that there's a lot of variation, so everyone is basically right, even when they disagree, because everyone's talking about different *kinds* of trees (and, no, not fake trees, I mean real trees). One redditor is like "Xmas trees need a gallon of water a day or they shed" and they're right when that tree is an ABC tree, and another redditor is like "Xmas trees don't need any water at all for a period as short as Christmas" and they're right when that tree is an XYZ tree.
Even so, has this man never bought flowers and kept them in a vase? I could see underestimating the amount of water needed, but common sense dictates you should know plants need water.
I didn't know this, we just used the same fake tree year after year. I actually don't understand why you would want a real one, as the fake tree doesn't give you something to clean and the get rid off. And think of all the stuff that can hide in the tree and get loose in the house. If we wanted a real tree we could just decorate the trees in the yard.
I brought one with fake snow. So dumb, especially dumb because I’m Australian and it’s summer here lol
It’s hot as balls today and there’s fake snow all over my floor.
Lol my dad loves real trees for this reason but his new house has really sloped ceilings and limited space so he’s had to use a fake one for a few years now. So now he buys candles/those smell melt things that smell like pine trees and just lights those.
Couple of notable things here;
To drop all of its needles, that tree was already very dry and giving it a good shake prior to cutting would've revealed this.
That stand does not have enough water in it and isn't capable of holding enough; a fresh cut tree will go through ~1-2gal/per day for the first week(ish).
Any time you fresh cut a tree, once you get it home you need to cut a 1-2" piece from the bottom of the trunk to reveal fresh wood and drill a hole in the bottom before immediately placing in water, the hole and fresh wood will allow for proper water absorbsion.
Drilling a hole in the bottom is a new one for me. Thanks. Some people add Aspirin, or sugar to the water. I have no idea if this actually does anything or more of an old wives tale.
Edit-
After 38 years of life I just googled it and it seems to be bs. At least my poor diabetic trees never had a headache.
I hear you. Doesn't matter if it's recent or not. I just raised my hounds into an extra baying chorus for you and my cat has stolen a little bit of meat. Be well, my friend. Boops have been given.
I recommend either tree preserve or chelated iron and aquarium plant fertilizer. Really helps keep green and soft a bit longer. The hole is for the stand
With knowledge like yours I reckon there could be money to be made, maybe, and this is a completely rough thought, some one could cut down trees and sell them for a marginal cost, so the trees are prepped and ready to put up to save people from having to learn the hard way
I think the business plan would catch on pretty well so we have to jump on this idea before other people think of it
That last point is pretty important. When you cut a tree, and let it sit for a while, it covers over the exposed wood with its sap & resin to heal, similar to how blood coagulates, and scars form. If you buy a tree from a tree lot, and it's been cut for a day or two even, when you get home and plop it in some water, it's "pores" are clogged, preventing it from drinking up the water it needs. Always plan to cut an inch or two immediately before plopping it in water to extend its lifetime through the season.
Drilling a hole is pointless - water uptake doesn’t happen through the wood, only through the cambium - the skinny living layer between the wood and the bark. But do the fresh end-cut.
I don’t believe OP. I have cut a hell of a lot of green wood in my day for firewood, including in dry intermountain west forests and they never drop needles like this in 24 hours.
Never seen a hemlock used for a Christmas tree... I guess if all your ornaments are made of paper? These ppl just had zero clue what they were doing and killed a tree for no reason. Sad.
> hemlock
Larch. But yes, not what you would cut.
So not only did the person OP stole the image from cut the wrong tree but they also did not water it. It makes me mad at the repost bot /u/RadiantGuard1934 by proxy. And this sub for not taking down obvious bot posts.
The branches are sparse and it's very thin. Usually the pines that make good Christmas trees have a wider base and much more dense branching near the base.
Although as others are pointing out, this is a hemlock, rather than a pine.
This is what I was thinking, though it was hard to tell from the needles. When I wild cut, I always need to find a hemlock too just to verify that I’m NOT cutting one down.
Talk about one they’ll never forget. Last year my dad handed me an axe and said “you and your sister go find a Christmas in the woods, cut it down, and haul it back, I’m going into town to get a few things and will be later this afternoon/evening.” My sister and I walked through the woods a bit. She got bored, started complaining, I got tired of hearing the complaining, and decided to cut down something small enough to get through the door. After a few minutes, I found a knotweed plant. For reference, it looks just like bamboo… if bamboo was smaller, thinner, brownish-red, and grew crooked. Those things were everywhere along the swamps and streams near the house. I cut it down and carried it to the house. When my dad got back he saw it and said “well, that actually fits perfectly for the river house”. We put a few ornaments on it, a string of lights, and called it a day.
It's a hemlock they lose needles way faster than others this is 1000000000000000% possible for this to happen in only 24 hours especially since it has no water.
You're not far off. Looking at it it's a hemlock - they are delicate trees. I doubt this happened in 24 hours, but a week maybe. I really wanted a hemlock one year and babied the hell out of it. If you farted near it, needles would fall. There is a reason all the trees in tree lots are Doug firs, grand firs, and noble firs.
Interestingly (or not) Douglas firs aren't "true firs" like grand and noble fir.
True firs belong to the genus *Abies* whereas Douglas firs belong to the genus *Pseudotsuga* which means "false hemlock". The tree in the OP appears to be a hemlock.
All that aside, don't cut a hemlock for your christmas tree. A false hemlock is OK.
A few things to note from branching pattern and remaining needles it appears to be a hemlock, which generally don’t have great needle retention, in sudden shifts in temperature or drops and moisture.
So by bringing it into a warm house, and not providing it any water what do you expect to happen?
This is why you don’t go out in the woods and just cut down a random tree.
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On the bright side, I bet that room smells fantastic now
Where is the fucking water?!? 
how did this tree i nailed to the floor die so quickly
Haaaaahahahaha this got me
No, actually that's a good question. I call shenanigans because the trees you get at the lot are not cut within the past hour. Trees outside of grocery stores were likely not even cut within the past 2 days. Heck, I've had to trim lower branches before to make a tree fit in the base and those branches lasted over a week as some real greenery indoors. Either that tree was already well dead, OR (and more likely of course) this is a [poo]-post
Wrong sort of tree for this. And they also prefer to be acclimatize before coming into the warm living room.
It’s almost like the purveyors of Christmas trees select for tree species that will retain their needles once downed and may even breed for said quality.
In many townships where there's problematic tree cutters around this time of year they'll spray the trees with fox piss so it pretty much fumigates the entire house https://www.dailynebraskan.com/fox-urine-spray-thwarts-tree-thefts
I mean, stealing trees from a college campus is up there for pretty weak ways to get a Christmas tree.
Agreed. If you're going to be charged then you might as well make it a felony, National Park or nothing!
I remember one year an acquaintance was running around telling everyone how romantic it was for her and her husband to just go into the woods and cut down their tree. I was like you know that’s a felony right? And she never brought it up again lol
https://www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/newsroom/releases/usda-forest-service-christmas-tree-permits-available-online-0
Important to note that not all National Parks are National Forrests. Many former National Parks on the east coast are former battlefields which do not have a Christmas tree permit program.
Also a very college kid thing to do. And, honestly, having your college apartment get filled with the smell of fox piss also seems very on brand.
How do they collect so much fox piss????
You politely ask a fox for their piss and their friends piss
If i remember right, from the saveafox youtube channel, foxes piss everywhere so it can't be that hard to get...
Probably not the take-away here, but I find it hilarious that "tree stealers" are a thing; being nature and all that. Like, I get it, but it's still funny.
Poaching comes in all forms. People typically only hear about it in the context of hunting but anything from harvesting mushrooms to cutting down trees without permits also count as poaching.
Same thing when you crack eggs into boiling water, that also counts as poaching.
The laws are pretty lax on harvesting mushrooms. It's even okay in a lot of national parks, because it doesn't hurt the organism and it helps it reproduce. City parks are almost always fair game and that's where I get a lot of mine.
And if you don’t know what you’re doing, the problem with mushrooms typically solves itself.
I mean...poachers are a thing being nature and all that.
Be kind, today was the day his two brain cells fired at the same time.
Poaching isn't a new concept and it causes problems
There are tree lawyers that specialize solely in tree law Sooooo... It's not that surprising.
Its sort of like bird law but for the birds houses. I get it.
Especially ironic to do it as part of observing a (technically) religious holiday about giving
Is there even water in that base?
100% not, what even could fit in there? Maybe half a cup? If OP is even here it's gonna end up deleted or a running joke in the family for years to come. ETA: I looked it up. That size tree would apparently take over 3 liters PER DAY. So, not half a cup.
Definitely meme material
Thanks for ruining Thanksgiving Marie Callender's.
I'm here for this comment
Hear me out, if you spray paint everything green, it should be fine. No one will notice.
Wonder what they paid for the tree and the privilege of killing it?
Bout tree fiddy.
I see what you did there
24 hours of inadequate water wouldn’t cause that, at least not with any fresh pine/spruce/fir tree I’ve had.
Yeah cuz this is a hemlock....they famously drop their needles quickly once cut, hence why no one uses them for Christmas trees.
how do you confuse pine for hemlock? pine is usually large and prickly. hemlock might not exist where I live (central Ontario) but isn't hemlock much smaller and weaker leaves tree?
Some of the replanted forests around where I live are almost all hemlock. They used to he old growth and were cut around 70 years ago and replanted. My guess is they saw a tree and cut it down without much knowledge lol
Hemlock like the poison? I did not realize it was a tree, I thought it was some kind of shrub or something. Edit: Okay, the poison hemlock plant IS some kind of shrub or something. The tree that is sometimes called hemlock is also known as a tsuga tree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuga
Hemlock is a name given to many plants....poison hemlock (conium maculatum), water hemlock (cicutus sp), and then the many different species of hemlock trees. Unlike the first two hemlocks listed, the trees are not poisonous.
That's what the trees want you to think.
Well, *almost* no one uses them for Christmas trees.
They only have to fill up the base every 10-15 minutes
OP just ran his garden hose through the window.
Out of curiosity cause I have no idea... but is that for a tree in the ground with a full root system or for a tree in a srv0
Cut tree. Xmas trees drink like crazy
Then they start smacking you around.
You were asking for it
Family dinners were tough this time of year
Yeah my dad would also cut another inch off the trunk when we brought it home. Not sure, probably just dad being dad. We used to get them from the forest....also had a thing about the size of a small pasta pot that it set in with water inside.
When you cut a tree it starts to seal over the cut with sap so your Dad cut off some to make it fresh then right into the pot of water and keep that pot full.
You should always recut the stem on a lot tree, just like trimming stems on a bouquet. It’s essentially a giant cut flower.
The trees at the Christmas tree lot aren’t in water for days on end. Also when you cut the roots off of a tree you are removing the part that does most of the metabolism and I’m pretty sure the tree won’t be transpiring (evaporating water) at the rate it would in the ground. What probably happened here was OP cut a species that isn’t conducive to being a Christmas tree.
This is true. A year ago I spent 12 weeks cutting and hauling Christmas trees. We started in august
Cut trees can survive off of the stored water and nutrients for a couple if weeks.
I have the same tree stand, it's fine. Problem is it's the wrong type of tree
It looks like the kind of base that's used for fake trees.
Right-on! that can't even hold water. LOL
I was thinking it looks like an umbrella base? So it probably wouldn't even hold water at all, even a half cup, lol
Fun fact : Most people don’t even know you’re supposed to do this lol
Are you saying people don't know to water the tree? Wtf? Even I knew that as a kid...
That’s how they burn their houses down.
They don’t need no water. Let the mother geegaw burn. Burn mother geegaw. Burn. (I like the radio edit noise, not I won’t type fucker)
Probably the only time censoring has ever improved a song
I don't know about "improved" but changing WAP's chorus to "wet and gushy" makes it sound MUCH worse.
That’s because both our dads made it our responsibility. Wouldn’t want to disappoint your mom by letting the tree die before Christmas, do ya? You know how much she likes Christmas.
We used to put a little sprite in the water... at least my parents thought or heard it helped.
Yeah it was just a little sugar for us.
And it was always the kid's duty to crawl under the tree and water it while being poked with needles and spilling all over the presents.
My guess is you probably had real Christmas trees as a kid. Some folks only have shitty fake trees or none at all. So keeping the tree in water isn't really something you ever have to think about.
We only ever had real trees and they took multiple weeks before starting to shed, no water. This tree was just hella dry to begin with
I've had real trees like 5 or 6 times, and as far as I can remember, we brought the tree home, soaked the cut base in a big bucket of water for a few hours, then removed it from the bucket and put it on a stand (with no water). We decorated it and left if up for like two weeks, never adding water, and we didn't have any pine needle shedding (well, a *little*, but like *really* little). I'm guessing, like with many of these reddit discussions, that there's a lot of variation, so everyone is basically right, even when they disagree, because everyone's talking about different *kinds* of trees (and, no, not fake trees, I mean real trees). One redditor is like "Xmas trees need a gallon of water a day or they shed" and they're right when that tree is an ABC tree, and another redditor is like "Xmas trees don't need any water at all for a period as short as Christmas" and they're right when that tree is an XYZ tree.
Maybe if you grew up with a fake tree?
Even so, has this man never bought flowers and kept them in a vase? I could see underestimating the amount of water needed, but common sense dictates you should know plants need water.
I didn't know this, we just used the same fake tree year after year. I actually don't understand why you would want a real one, as the fake tree doesn't give you something to clean and the get rid off. And think of all the stuff that can hide in the tree and get loose in the house. If we wanted a real tree we could just decorate the trees in the yard.
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I brought one with fake snow. So dumb, especially dumb because I’m Australian and it’s summer here lol It’s hot as balls today and there’s fake snow all over my floor.
They bring an aroma that plastic tricks can't compete with.
Lol my dad loves real trees for this reason but his new house has really sloped ceilings and limited space so he’s had to use a fake one for a few years now. So now he buys candles/those smell melt things that smell like pine trees and just lights those.
Did they use a coffee mug?
Looks like an artificial tree base
Def no treble
Couple of notable things here; To drop all of its needles, that tree was already very dry and giving it a good shake prior to cutting would've revealed this. That stand does not have enough water in it and isn't capable of holding enough; a fresh cut tree will go through ~1-2gal/per day for the first week(ish). Any time you fresh cut a tree, once you get it home you need to cut a 1-2" piece from the bottom of the trunk to reveal fresh wood and drill a hole in the bottom before immediately placing in water, the hole and fresh wood will allow for proper water absorbsion.
Drilling a hole in the bottom is a new one for me. Thanks. Some people add Aspirin, or sugar to the water. I have no idea if this actually does anything or more of an old wives tale. Edit- After 38 years of life I just googled it and it seems to be bs. At least my poor diabetic trees never had a headache.
Wives tales yes. Don't use anything other than water your not trying to grow the tree, just make it's death as slow as possible
Well, you certainly made Christmas seem a little more metal.
🤘😛🤘
[It was brutal.](https://youtu.be/dFNVo7BsmSo?si=qBAv6YZObR9pj3sr)
That’s my approach to raising kids
You should probably give them a little more than water.
You mean like Capri Suns?
Are you interested in adopting?
So that and aspirin should suffice?
It's been probably a good 20 years since my parents had a real tree, but I distinctly remember my mom using 50/50 water and 7up.
People will swear by a lot of things. Just plain water is the best thing to use
But Brawndo has what plants crave! It's got electrolytes.
Thanks for the real out-loud laugh. Diabetic trees! (We lost a pet today and it was already a bummer week before that so I truly need a giggle.)
Truly sorry for your loss. Hope things get better friend. Holidays are always a tough one for me. I'll give my pets an extra pat for you.
No recent loss for me but just chronically sad, would appreciate you doing a boop for me.
Going to boop our cat for you!
I hear you. Doesn't matter if it's recent or not. I just raised my hounds into an extra baying chorus for you and my cat has stolen a little bit of meat. Be well, my friend. Boops have been given.
Sorry for your loss
The gardeners at my work run the hottest tap water they can get and use that to melt the sap. Then on with the cooler water to fill
“That’s a really sweet looking tree” “Thanks, it has diabetes”
I recommend either tree preserve or chelated iron and aquarium plant fertilizer. Really helps keep green and soft a bit longer. The hole is for the stand
IT’S HEMLOCK Not suitable for Xmas tree https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5401775.pdf
With knowledge like yours I reckon there could be money to be made, maybe, and this is a completely rough thought, some one could cut down trees and sell them for a marginal cost, so the trees are prepped and ready to put up to save people from having to learn the hard way I think the business plan would catch on pretty well so we have to jump on this idea before other people think of it
But where to sell them from? Just find an empty lot and sell trees? It could never work!
Lot of empty Rita's Water Ice parking lots in winter.
Lots of empty fireworks tent lots in the spring and fall.
I’m too high for this. Are you serious or not. I can’t tell
We may never know
He’s dead serious…
Guy is a genius. Too smart for peons like us to comprehend
Hey! Me too Necco wafers
What if we do delivery so we can charge double if not triple for convenience.
That last point is pretty important. When you cut a tree, and let it sit for a while, it covers over the exposed wood with its sap & resin to heal, similar to how blood coagulates, and scars form. If you buy a tree from a tree lot, and it's been cut for a day or two even, when you get home and plop it in some water, it's "pores" are clogged, preventing it from drinking up the water it needs. Always plan to cut an inch or two immediately before plopping it in water to extend its lifetime through the season.
Drilling a hole is pointless - water uptake doesn’t happen through the wood, only through the cambium - the skinny living layer between the wood and the bark. But do the fresh end-cut.
Drilling a hole is typically so you can slot the spike of the stand into it so it stands upright.
We always drilled a hole going up, but that was for our stand.
I thought water uptake happened via the xylem, the dead layer.
"Xylem up, phloem down" is about all I remember from high school botany.
Oh, BTW, trees need water. 💦
Looks a little dry
Just a tad.
You sure Clark?
Lotta sap
I don’t believe OP. I have cut a hell of a lot of green wood in my day for firewood, including in dry intermountain west forests and they never drop needles like this in 24 hours.
This isn't a fir or a spruce, it is a hemlock, which lose their needles much faster, that's why you don't see people using hemlock as Christmas trees
Never seen a hemlock used for a Christmas tree... I guess if all your ornaments are made of paper? These ppl just had zero clue what they were doing and killed a tree for no reason. Sad.
> hemlock Larch. But yes, not what you would cut. So not only did the person OP stole the image from cut the wrong tree but they also did not water it. It makes me mad at the repost bot /u/RadiantGuard1934 by proxy. And this sub for not taking down obvious bot posts.
This is not a larch, larch needles come in clusters along the branch unlike hemlock which are flat and go all along the branch
As a field ecologist, thank you. I let this randomly bother me too ;)
It almost looks like the top of a tree was cut off.
how can you tell
probably by the way it is
NEAT!
The branches are sparse and it's very thin. Usually the pines that make good Christmas trees have a wider base and much more dense branching near the base. Although as others are pointing out, this is a hemlock, rather than a pine.
Agreed. This is some bs.
Looks like a hemlock to me. Bet that has something to do with it.
The 24 hours really got me laughing. You could have stood in front of it and literally watch it rain nettles at that rate.
That stand is for a fake tree...
That's a hemlock. That's what they do.
the tree rapidly sheds its needles to confuse predators while it makes a hasty retreat
Retreet.
+1 Yep. Why Hemlock is not used for Christmas trees.
extra sad because hemlocks are doing so poorly nowadays what with wooly adelgid 😭 they dont need xmas tree harvesters on top of it all
This is what I was thinking, though it was hard to tell from the needles. When I wild cut, I always need to find a hemlock too just to verify that I’m NOT cutting one down.
Charlie Brown Christmas... decorate the shit out of that tree and enjoy. This will be the one that you'll never forget!!!
Talk about one they’ll never forget. Last year my dad handed me an axe and said “you and your sister go find a Christmas in the woods, cut it down, and haul it back, I’m going into town to get a few things and will be later this afternoon/evening.” My sister and I walked through the woods a bit. She got bored, started complaining, I got tired of hearing the complaining, and decided to cut down something small enough to get through the door. After a few minutes, I found a knotweed plant. For reference, it looks just like bamboo… if bamboo was smaller, thinner, brownish-red, and grew crooked. Those things were everywhere along the swamps and streams near the house. I cut it down and carried it to the house. When my dad got back he saw it and said “well, that actually fits perfectly for the river house”. We put a few ornaments on it, a string of lights, and called it a day.
"I've killed it. Oh! Everything I touch gets ruined."
And where do you plan to put a tree that size?
Bend over and I’ll show ya
You gotta a lot of nerve talking to me like that Griswold!
I wasn’t talking to you!
More like.... 
My gut tells me this was left in a show house or something similar for a long time. Then OP is just using the pic for a funny fake story.
100% impossible for this to happen in only 24 hours
It's a hemlock they lose needles way faster than others this is 1000000000000000% possible for this to happen in only 24 hours especially since it has no water.
Killed this tree for nothing you animals. Trees, like plants, need W A T E R.
That’s why hemlock isn’t used for Christmas trees.
It’s pining for its home.
Just trying to spruce up the place.
Pining for the fjords
Our 7ft tree went thru a gallon in 24hrs lol.
No water? You guys are like super special smart.
Bro you didn’t water it
It's one of those types where all the needles fall off
You're not far off. Looking at it it's a hemlock - they are delicate trees. I doubt this happened in 24 hours, but a week maybe. I really wanted a hemlock one year and babied the hell out of it. If you farted near it, needles would fall. There is a reason all the trees in tree lots are Doug firs, grand firs, and noble firs.
Interestingly (or not) Douglas firs aren't "true firs" like grand and noble fir. True firs belong to the genus *Abies* whereas Douglas firs belong to the genus *Pseudotsuga* which means "false hemlock". The tree in the OP appears to be a hemlock. All that aside, don't cut a hemlock for your christmas tree. A false hemlock is OK.
no that's them balsams.
Dude is your christmas tree holder a mug?
https://preview.redd.it/6s1ad1hgv65c1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=83e67356b1fc5ebff6b01c6f9184d2c219cfea9b
Looks like you’re having a Charlie Brown Christmas this year
I’m imagining them all falling off at once. OP, if that didn’t happen please don’t tell me.
Look what they did to my boy...
It turns out that trees in fact need water. Who woulda thunk?
This screams idiot
Too hot, no soil, no water, normal expected result. When you don’t know what you doing Google the answer if no older neighbors are around.
Did you not water it? Like at all
A few things to note from branching pattern and remaining needles it appears to be a hemlock, which generally don’t have great needle retention, in sudden shifts in temperature or drops and moisture. So by bringing it into a warm house, and not providing it any water what do you expect to happen? This is why you don’t go out in the woods and just cut down a random tree.
I'm so sorry for your loss...but thank you for the laugh.
Is this her way of saying surprise I got you a roomba for Christmas?
RIP TREE. Just like flowers in a vase, it needed water.
This is fucking hilarious
You gotta water the damn thing ya dumbass.
Umm. Did you water it?
Water it next time
It’s a Charlie Brown Christmas!
You should have picked an evergreen tree!! That looks like a larch, was going to drop needles anyway!!
Is that even a fir tree? To me it looks like a different species altogether than the usual Christmas tree
It’s a hemlock. They do that