Stoneyginger
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Right ........... never had a real one before, i have bought one with a water feeding stand. How long do they tend to last if they remain well watered?
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will_doyle
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about a month
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BarnshaW
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remember to cut the bottom off before u put it in the fixing
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Whittie
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They last like 2 weeks they're shit.
Not even going to bother decorating the flat. Only me that sees it anyway 
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Hammer
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The needles get fucking everywhere in my experience
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Stoneyginger
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well as long as my cat doesn't decide to pee on it then im giving it a go 
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Hammer
The needles get fucking everywhere in my experience
Can get needle-less furns, which is what the parents get when they can be arsed. And as said, they seem to last for a fair few weeks, our last one was still live and kicking for over a month until it was burned in a bonfire 
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K17STY
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Boy at the horses sells them, he said they will be a fortune this year due to the weather ect and them not growing great.
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Stoneyginger
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they are selling them in HomeBase from 9.99 for a 5ft tree
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Chris F
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Christ u will be lucky with 2-3 weeks if u water it loads and have a good base!
They do look so much better tho
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Twiggy
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I want a 9ft one
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jimmy 2.1
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Get the ones that have the long pine needles, the ones that are almost bushy.
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jacko198
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Never water ours :s seems to last a good 3 weeks aswell
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Ollie_B
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Well if it's got no roots, it wont matter if it has water or not, as it's got no way of getting the water, it'll just sit there and rot 
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Stoneyginger
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A plant does not have to have roots to get water, the roots are soaking up water just like the trunk would hence you can take an offcut of a plant and grow it elsewhere. so really it won't rot!
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AK
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if its a decent one (cant remember name/type we had last year) it will last for months! Our was still a big hairy bastard in the back garden till Feb! 7ft high, 5ft wide
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Marc
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We got one with roots once, planted in the back garden after Christmas!
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Ollie_B
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Not all trees do that though, i know some do because we've done it in work. Depends what tree it is, williow and the likes will but not all trees and cuttings...
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chris_uk
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we just use the false ones, look alright to me and they done create any mess.
here are the two we had up a couple years back
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Stoneyginger
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i have a fake tree but i just fancied a real one this year , the tree we bought appears to have a long life one or something so see how we go 
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