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Having the cut surface exposed to air for a long period of time greatly reduces the tree's ability to absorb and move water molecules through its system, but it doesn't completely eliminate it. Much like a cut flower, the only effective solution if you think that's happened is to make a fresh cut to reopen the plant tissue which absorbs water.
Again, though, the rate of water level in the stand going up and down will fluctuate naturally. I put my tree up Friday night and within 2 hours it had absorbed about 3 qts of water, then it slowed down and I didn't fill the stand again until almost 48 hours later.
From: Steven
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:54 PM
Ok so I'm very curious why when you click on the image of the White House Christmas Tree here it is shown side ways pointing to the "right"? Perhaps a political comment considering the current occupant? :-)
LOL...interesting observation. And I thought I was a conspiracy theorist...
Nope, just a case of the graphical image not being edited before put on that page. Once it's flipped around it will be non-ideological again.
....can a tree be ideological?....
Webmaster's Note: My image software, unbenownst to me, had the "Automatically Flip Image" option set, so it appeared to be upright. No hidden politcal message. All fixed now....
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