Christmas Tree Formula

NOTE: Only use one batch of formula. Too much can damage your tree.

Al Carrell: You wouldn't knowingly bring a fire hazard into your house, and yet a Christmas tree that gets too dry is a time bomb waiting to go off. There is a formula, a magic formula that probably is going to help your tree to stay fresh a lot longer. It involves only four ingredients. First of all, you get some horticultural iron powder at the nursery and you put four tablespoons of that in here. The next thing you do is get four teaspoons of liquid laundry bleach and put that in there, and then the last ingredient is crystal clear Karo syrup and you'll use two cups of that. Now once you get all that in there, you want to mix it up real good and be sure you use hot water because that'll give you a little bit better formula. And then you want to pour it into the tree stand. Now I haven't put the tree in here. You should install your tree first and then pour it in there, but I want you to be able to see the formula and see how easy it is to go in there. And then once you get it in there, you'll realize that you may have a little bit left over and if you do, use that the next day, but you want to check the water level under the tree everyday because a tree will drink a heck of a lot of water. Let me recap that: four tablespoons of horticultural iron powder, four teaspoons of liquid laundry bleach, two cups of Karo syrup and put that in warm water, one gallon of warm water. After you run out of this formula, don't create another batch. Just use warm water every day.

Now if you do this and if you also keep the tree away from anything that's going to cause a fire, and also keep it out of the path of the, of the heating system so it doesn't dry out too fast, who knows, maybe the tree will last until Valentine's Day.

Episode 015 1995 - 96 Season

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