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Originally Posted by HalfFull
I haven't seen stats, but I had heard that far less than 50% of these trees end up surviving.
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We looked into it because we thought it would be nice to do it every year and line the rear of our property with transplanted trees, but it turns out it doesn't work very well. The problem is that by the time a tree is cut in December, it has already gone dormant for the season since there's already been a hard frost, etc... Once you bring the tree inside it basically thinks that Spring has arrived and begins to come out of dormancy because it's warmer. The problem occurs when the tree is then brought back outside in late December/early January. Essentially it goes into a kind of shock because "Spring" all of a sudden turned into the dead of winter. This is enough to kill a lot of trees. Apparently you can minimize the chance of killing the tree by only keeping it inside for no more than 5-7 days and keeping the room where the tree is located cool, but having a tree up for less than a week and having to keep the living room at meat locker temperatures isn't most people's idea of a "cozy Christmas"
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