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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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I think the watering idea is to make them slightly less kindling like. Although, I'm not sure how true that is or how much difference it makes to their combustibility.
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Water in the stand also lowers the centre of gravity, reducing risk of toppling. Although possibly redundant with a stand that substantial.
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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....