2016 real vs fake tree poll

What kind of tree?

  • Total voters
    74
  • Poll closed .
rockcity said:
However, the real enjoyment is taking the kids (me included!!!) to go pick out just the perfect tree! The experience and tradition of picking out that special tree with the kids cannot be replaced by anything. That is the main reason we choose real versus fake. Plus the real ones just smell awesome!
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Our kids look forward to it. It's not a big adventure, we don't have any farms nearby where you can go cut your own, so we just drive down to see Bernie, a local guy who sets up in the parking lot of a mom & pop auto repair shop.
We specifically pick out the Charlie Brown tree - the one that has a weird side or misshapen, the one nobody else will take. The kids see it like they are doing a service for a neglected tree that will probably get thrown away and never get to fulfill it's life purpose. it's going in the corner anyway so it's easy to hide the funky side.

In the long run, sure, it's more expensive, but we also get to support a local entrepreneur and farm instead of a factory in China.
 
BIGWOODY said:
Live tree with root ball, plant when Christmas is over. I'm no armchair hippy. Fake trees are for Walmart and people over 75.
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I love this idea. I really like the idea of starting planting them in a row so that over 10 years you'll have a row of your own trees reminding you of Christmas.
How big of a root ball do you need to keep attached?
 
I've planted 3 or 4 root ball trees, all died, I suck. @drkelly helped me drag the last one outside, think it was 2005, it only lasted 6 months. At least the others, at my old house, lasted over 5 years.
 
this coming from a guy that worked in college in the ashe county Christmas trees circuit. ---- about 10 years ago we had an aphid infestation that required vacuuming the whole house - ceiling, walls, floors, in and around all furniture and then burning piles and piles of the little buggers with brake cleaner in the driveway as fast as we could empty the vac filter. one day they decided it was time to 'come out' and boy did they ever. NEVER AGAIN. fake for us!!
 
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