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The best Christmas tree holders are this kind, with the ratchet mechanism:
https://www.krinner.us/christmas-tree-stands
(Just the first search result, no idea what other brands are available.)
I don't think there's any point in watering Christmas trees, unless you have a permanent one in the garden.
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Cut off the point and stick it in a bucket of water until you have a stand you can add water too. If you can't get one stick it in a bucket of sand and add water to that. A bit of tinsel around the bucket and you'd never know😁
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20+ years of real christmas trees in our house and we've only ever used a screw in stand with no water and we've never had a tree fire.
Oliver Schick
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@owl
Real christmas trees - bought one with the trunk chopped into a point and standing upright in a nice disk of wood. Is the expectation/requirement that you also have a proper holder in which you can water the tree or does no-one actually do this? Just gone down a worrying rabbithole of christmas tree fires. I think I should probably buy a holder which can take water but would appreciate experience/verification....