# Save my Christmas Tree! =D **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 1, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/save-my-christmas-tree-d/282524 "2005-01-01T04:03:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thinktank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Thinktank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinktank)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/save-my-christmas-tree-d/282524/1 "2005-01-01T04:03:01Z")
Hi all, Help me save my Chrismas tree, lol So basically is there anything I can do to make it root? After all it i-s just a small, possibly 4 foot tree… cut down so young in life… sorry, drunk I be tee-hee… but the question is legit. “Can you make an already cut tree root again?” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/save-my-christmas-tree-d/282524/2 "2005-01-01T07:11:29Z")
Maybe, but your chances are better if you cut off a few branches and try to grow them. When you root cuttings, you get small, rudimentary roots. They’ll be enough to feed a branch, but not a whole cut Christmas tree. Here’s how. From a garden store, buy some water-soluble fertilizer (Miracle Grow, for example,) and some rooting enzyme (Rootone, for example.) If you can’t find rooting compound, go find a willow tree. Take a foot of the weeping branch and chop it up. Soak it in water overnight and pour the water on the planted cutting. **Don’t put any willow pieces on the cutting’s soil.** If you do, you’ll have a young willow tree competing with your pine. Anyway, within two weeks, roots will sprout from your cut branch. Nurture it for a few years, and you’ll have a full grown Christmas tree.