How to Make Homemade Christmas Tree Preservative

In addition to providing your Christmas tree with a fresh supply of water, you can preserve the tree and lengthen its indoor life by adding a mixture of nutrients to its water source.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 2-gallon bucket
• Pint light syrup
• 1/4 cup bleach
• 1 tsp. multipurpose cleaner and bleach
• 1 tsp. Epsom salts

Prepare Tree Preservative

1. Add 1 3/4 gallons of water, heated to a boil, to the 2-gallon bucket.

2. Add and stir in one pint light syrup. Stir until the syrup is dissolved in water.

3. Add 1/4 cup bleach, 1 tsp. multipurpose cleaner with bleach, and 1 tsp. Epsom salts and stir it into the water-syrup mixture.

4. Allow the preservative mixture to cool to room temperature.

Treat Tree with Preservative

5. Cut 2 inches from the bottom of the tree trunk.

6. Immerse the tree trunk in preservative solution and allow it to absorb liquid overnight (12 hours).

7. Place the tree in a tree stand, which includes a water reservoir.

8. Fill the tree stand reservoir with the preservative solution.

9. Check the tree stand reservoir daily and replenish the preservative solution as necessary.

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