I think my christmas tree is starting to smell bad!
This is the first time I've ever had a real tree and we got it right after thanksgiving. It's not brown or anything, but it seems to be giving off a really funky odor (maybe it's just my pregnancy nose?)
Does anyone know what might be causing this and what I could do about it?
Re: Help my christmas tree stinks!
Oh man, it kinda does smell like cat pee It's sort of a bitter smell.
I don't remember what kind of tree it is, but it's the one that has a sort of blue-ish tint.
Do you have a blue spruce?
We always get a douglas fir, and it starts to smell bad when it's dying. I can always tell when it's happening because the needles start to get more prickly and fall off faster, etc.
I always add sugar to the water when I water the tree.
The tree can and will definitely omit an odor before it turns brown, so don't rule out that it's dying, especially if you've had it since Thanksgiving.
Dammit! it better not be dying, because DH will have a field day with that one. He told me over and over we'd better wait until later to get a tree, but I just had to have it right after Thanksgiving.
Lucky for me DH has no sense of smell (at least I assume that's why it doesn't bother him when the garbage is totally rank), so maybe he won't notice if I dont say anything...
I didn't know about the sugar water thing.
LOL..go buy a Christmas tree smelling air freshener and start spraying the tree every day.
That will get you by until this time next week, and since it's after xmas you can get rid of it.
We always get ours towards the middle of the month/2nd week of Dec. because I like to keep it up until New Years.
I've smelled mine in the last couple days, which is annoying me only because we haven't had it that long. But I even asked my DH if he smelled it and he couldn't. So we might just have the pregnancy nose
IF you cut your tree down yourself or know it was cut down within a couple days of buying it, I would think it should have no problems lasting an entire month. However, I'd be a little more hesitant about those side-of-the-road tree tents.
I would try the sugar in the water thing...sounds like a good idea. We always get some of that preservative liquid that you can add when watering once a week or so and that helps with ours.
Off topic, (kind of), but DH and I cut down our own Xmas tree each year and one year we got it home and set it up only to find a nest w/ the skeleton of a dead bird in it while we were decorating.