Real Christmas Tree or Fake Christmas Tree?

People have been posting their trees

http://treecontest.worldwidechristmas.com

This one from Hoover, Alabama is huuuge
http://treecontest.worldwidechristmas.com/2018/v/196

This amused me, for reasons of childhood
http://treecontest.worldwidechristmas.com/2018/v/147

This looks kinda nice
http://treecontest.worldwidechristmas.com/2018/v/137

Mostly, I just like peeking into people's living rooms.

 

I like the fireplace more than the tree in this one!

 

This one reminds me of the green stuff that one of my aunt's use to bring for Christmas dinner.

 

I wonder if the lights have any effect on the growth, I mean, I remember growing grass seeds at school with different color celephane over lamps to see the difference in how seedlings grow. Probably not a mature tree, but I'm surprised tree huggers haven't started a petition yet about the harmful light perpetuated on natural trees.

 

is there another tree in the next room too?

 

And did it make a difference?

I'll take the same picture next year and we'll compare the growth of each color

 

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Oh yeah, I can't remember the difference but each seedling grew very different through each color. I'm not sure germination is the right word.. But certain colors promoted growth at different rates.

 

Since I have no kids at home and no mate--I can't see getting one.

 

I LOVE this x a gazillion!

 

great,, I got the stoned out of my mind lamp(eye), I think this builder knows me..

 

This is a story that involves Christmas trees….the real kind. Back in the late 50s we had a neighbor with four children. He was a machinist and made a good wage but how would he ever pay for college for his children?

So he was creative and bought a worn out sand country farm in central Wisconsin…about 320 acres very cheaply. And he planted all the open areas with Red “Norway” pine; well over 200,000 of them. For the next several years his children sheared the young trees to produce attractive Christmas trees. Each year he marketed thousands of them to provide a substantial income for the collage fund. And then….all his children attended college and graduated

And the Christmas trees were only a portion of the planted trees. As time went on thinning of the planted trees provided pulpwood, house logs and eventually saw logs. And this neighbor said, “ I want to live long enough to see those trees so big I can’t put my arms around them.”

Recently I talked to one of his sons and he said his father he’d passed away. But a few years before he died he went to the now stately grove of pine and and found the Red Pine were indeed too big to put his arms around. From an environmental and family standpoint this is win-win story.