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On 12/14/2015 10:05 PM, Muggles wrote:
I guess I love fir trees. Frazier fir is my second choice, and Noble
fir come in first place.


I like Douglas firs which aren't really a fir so they don't make the
Tannenbaum cut.. I visit them in the woods but don't bring them home
with me.

Where do you find nobles? They're a west coast species with a fairly
limited distribution unless they're growing them in Christmas tree farms.

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On 12/15/2015 8:35 AM, rbowman wrote:
On 12/14/2015 10:05 PM, Muggles wrote:
I guess I love fir trees. Frazier fir is my second choice, and Noble
fir come in first place.


I like Douglas firs which aren't really a fir so they don't make the
Tannenbaum cut.. I visit them in the woods but don't bring them home
with me.

Where do you find nobles? They're a west coast species with a fairly
limited distribution unless they're growing them in Christmas tree farms.


I've seen Noble firs only at Christmas as cut trees. This year we
actually had some potted Frazier fir trees at Lowe's garden center, so I
bought one and will see if it'll survive our weird weather.

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On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:34:40 -0600, Muggles
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I have a live potted Frazier Fir tree on my front porch that I bought a
few weeks ago. I thought I was going to bring it in and decorate it as a
table top tree, but instead I just kept it on the front porch and put
lights on it out there. Inside I took the old lights off the table top
tree from years past and put new LEDs on it and it looks like a brand
new tree, now.

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If I really wanted a LIVE tree, I'd probably get one of these potted
trees too. I've always thought that cutting down all those young conifer
trees every year are a huge waste. They could become lumber or provide
other needs, while giving us oxygen in the process. Instead they are cut
down, put in someone's house for a few weeks, then tossed in the trash.
Many of them dont even get into someone's home. They go to a xmas tree
lot and are never sold, and just go right to the trash. That is such a
waste.

The age old arguement is that they are PLANTED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Yea,
that's true, but that uses up land that could be used to grow food or
grow trees for lumber or other uses.

The artificial trees today can be very realistic looking, and do the
same thing as a REAL tree. They are safer, and you dont have to buy a
new one each year. Not to mention less work....

While LED light sets are a lot safer than the old incan... bulbs, live
trees can still quickly start a fire if they are ignited. I cant even
imagine how or why anyone with a brain would use candles on a conifer
tree inside a house, yet that was common practice before electric xmas
lights.

And for those who like the scent of pine in your house. There are lots
of ways to achieve that without killing trees....


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So true sold trees in NYC for 22 years and that is what I learned from all tree growers the company bought from need fresh cut and they only drink water from the inside of bark. Drilling doesn't do anything. No need for an asprin don't think they have a headache
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