Have you ever heard of this....
By Kowgirl
@Kowgirl (3490)
United States
November 25, 2007 7:57am CST
OK I am in my late 60's and this is the first time I have
ever heard of doing this. Yesterday when my friends and I went out to get our Christmas trees the man who was selling them was also selling food dye with them.
Well we all know women are nosy so I asked him what it was for. He said "if you want to enhance the green of your tree or make it stay green for a longer period of time you put food dye in the water". I had never heard of that. So when we put up our trees we are not only going to put a preservative in the water we are going to put green dye in there too. Have you ever heard of doing this? If so, does it work?
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13 responses
@BayleighGray (4334)
• United States
25 Nov 07
Hi Kowgirl,
I have heard of doing this with flowers and stuff so I dont see why it wouldnt work with trees too! I never thought about it really. Makes perfect sense to me. In school once we did this with food coloring and carnations. We would put whatever color we wanted the tips of the petals to turn in the water. Have you ever seen flowers that were tipped with another color? This is how they do it.
Lets us know if its working for you when you start doing it. Maybe you could use some red dye! hehe Add a little pizazz to your Christmas tree.
Bay Lay Gray xx
@Kowgirl (3490)
• United States
25 Nov 07
I don't think the red dye would work. LOL
Red mixed with green would look brown and thats what we are trying to avoid.
Then again if it would dye only the tips and they turned out red then all we would need is lights. We have dyed Queen's lace (a wild flower) all the colors we could think of. We have used them for center pieces in the fall when we needed oranges, yellows and greens for our tables. They are very pretty. We have tried it on some roses and they work pretty good but they seem to fade and turn brown around the edges faster than other flowers. I'll let you know if it works.
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@BayleighGray (4334)
• United States
25 Nov 07
Oh yeah, I didnt think of that! lol You dont want a brown tree, of course! Blonde moment Kowgirl.
Yes the roses brown quickly anyway, unless you drop a plain asprin in the water, then they stay fresh longer. Not sure why, but I always have and it works well.
Bay xx
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
26 Nov 07
I guess it is worth a try. May want to contact mythbusters on this one. I have never heard of it. It is not on snopes as an urban legend but I could not find anything on any websites on Christmas tree care that says to do it.
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@mrsjumppuppy03 (3301)
• United States
25 Nov 07
I have never heard of doing this with your tree only flowers. Stands to reason that it would work to keep the tree green. My question is, will it keep the needles from drying out so quickly and falling off? I hate the clean up of needles, that is why I use an artificial tree. Let us know if it helps with keeping the needles from falling off before Christmas.
Thanks and have a blessed Merry Christmas.
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@mrsjumppuppy03 (3301)
• United States
25 Nov 07
I have never heard of doing this with your tree only flowers. Stands to reason that it would work to keep the tree green. My question is, will it keep the needles from drying out so quickly and falling off? I hate the clean up of needles, that is why I use an artificial tree. Let us know if it helps with keeping the needles from falling off before Christmas.
Thanks and have a blessed Merry Christmas.
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@raychill (6525)
• United States
25 Nov 07
I have heard of this too, but never done it. Thought food dye isn't toxic I have a cat who is silly and likes to get under the tree and drink the water. Silly cat. So I'm always weary of putting dye in it since he'd drink it. But if you do it, let us know if it works cause then maybe we all can enhance the green. I'd think you'd have to use a lot of dye for the tree though!
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
26 Nov 07
I have never heard of using green dye for the Christmas Tree, but it should work. In elementary school one of the first experiments we did in science was to take a white carnation, split the stem in two, and put one side in a glass of blue water, the other in a glass of red water. We left it overnight. When class resumed the next day, the tips of the petals would be red and blue respective to the sides of the stem and what water they were in. So basically this should work the same for the tree.
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@tdbrower1969 (1242)
• United States
26 Nov 07
I have never heard of using this on Christmas trees, but I have heard of using it in flowers. I would think that it would work the same way. Good luck, I hope it works! We can't use real Christmas trees because my son is allergic to them, so we just have a fake one!
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@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
26 Nov 07
I'm allergic to pine trees also so I won't be able to try it. I never heard of it but like everyone else I have heard of it and tried it with floweres and it works so I don't see why it wouldn't with the tree. It's one of those..."gee I wish I thought of that" things isn't it?
@girlgonefishing (2174)
• United States
26 Nov 07
Nope, never heard of it. BUT, you can be sure I'm going to try it this year just to see. What can it hurt? LOL
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@ilsksaa11 (36)
• China
26 Nov 07
if it hve no harmful ingredient it dose work!and i think you can not use it too much!
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