How Do You 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. Add 1 3/4 gallons of water, heated to a boil, to the 2-gallon bucket. Add and stir in one pint light syrup. Stir until the syrup is dissolved in water. Add 1/4 cup bleach, 1 tsp. multipurpose cleaner with bleach, and 1 tsp. Epsom salts and stir it into the water-syrup mixture. Allow the preservative mixture to cool to room temperature. Cut 2 inches from the bottom of the tree trunk. Immerse the tree trunk in preservative solution and allow it to absorb liquid overnight (12 hours). Place the tree in a tree stand, which includes a water reservoir. Fill the tree stand reservoir with the preservative solution. Check the tree stand reservoir daily and replenish the preservative solution as necessary.
