Any gardening experts around? I got a real xmas tree yesterday, and I've put it into one of those bases you can pour water into. The advice given with the tree was to chop a couple of inches off the stem before putting it into the base and watering it.
I haven't chopped anything off (I don't own anything remotely capable of hacking thru a tree trunk) so I just put the tree up, and I've filled the base with water.
Q : Is my tree going to die of thirst or is it quite capable of extracting the water?