How To Replant A Christmas Tree

How to plant a living christmas tree.

How to replant a christmas tree. Choose a location in your house that is cool and light but not too bright. Spacing is where many people mess up when planting christmas trees. Now you are ready to replant your christmas tree. Think of all that the tree has been through.

Fill a pot or celled tray with lightweight aerated potting medium such as a mixture of three parts peat one part. Dig the planting hole. Before plopping your tree into a hole outside you have to transition the tree. Remove the burlap from the.

However the trees should be planted in rows with the seedlings eight feet apart. Christmas tree cuttings cut several stems about the diameter of a pencil then strip the needles from the bottom half of the stems. This way it can acclimate to the temperature. Buy the potted tree a couple of weeks before you want to bring it inside and place it in a garage or shed.

Mist the branches and trunk once or twice a day and water the root ball as needed. The rows should also be eight feet apart from each other too. It should be twice at least twice five times is best wider than the root ball. Place the christmas tree in the hole and backfill the hole.

My q is what type of compost will it need and what area is it. Buy your living christmas tree as close to christmas as. Add a 2 3 inches 5 1 7 6 cm layer of mulch around the base of the tree. Water your tree immediately after you replant it.

Stake your tree to the. Check the root ball for damage. Place the tree back into the cold sheltered area for a week or two so that the tree can re enter dormancy if it has started to come out of dormancy while it was in the house. They cram them too close together because the seedlings begin small.

Move the tree gently side to side and be sure the root ball moves with the trunk as you do this. Apply the mulch in a ring a few inches. Limit the amount of time your tree is indoors. Before replanting the tree give it a few days to re enter dormancy by keeping it in a cool.

Once christmas is over move the christmas tree you intend to replant back outside. Remove the burlap and any other coverings on the root ball. Decided to get a real christmas tree last year and bought one in a pot to go on the coffee table it s about 2ft tall. It went outside in january and i didn t expect it to survive but it looks as healthy as the day it was bought hasn t dropped any leaves but needs re potting.

Step by step instructions for replanting your living christmas tree. The base of the. Caring for a replanted tree 1.