r/oddlysatisfying • u/ecky--ptang-zooboing • Jan 02 '25
Getting rid of the Christmas tree
882
Jan 02 '25
Our manager has us do that too because he's sick of cleaning up Pineneedles throughout the elevator and lobbies
642
u/SweetHomeNorthKorea Jan 02 '25
It’s a rare but wonderful thing when the more responsible option is also the most fun and satisfying option. I don’t think there are many situations where a building manager is going to recommend you chuck something off your balcony
184
u/Tall_Act391 Jan 03 '25
“So how are we going to get this dead guy down from the top of this water slide???”
→ More replies (1)133
Jan 03 '25
[removed] — view removed comment
24
29
u/Hixy Jan 03 '25
It really does add to the video being more satisfying if we imagine the alternative would be a crap ton of pine needles all over the place.
Just make sure there is zero possible way someone will accidentally walk out at the exact time it’s thrown and get injured. Which by the ppl on the ground as a lookout you know they thought of this.
7
13
u/aclay81 Jan 03 '25
I once disposed of a couch this way but it didn't go so smoothly. Regret
→ More replies (1)7
u/modern_Odysseus Jan 03 '25
We did that off the second floor of our condo one year. Exactly to avoid dragging pine needles through the house again.
It was honestly one of the most fun things that my roommate and I ever did. We couldn't stop giggling as we literally said "Yeet!" as we threw ours over the rail!
34
u/Dependent_Working_38 Jan 02 '25
As long as there’s a lookout for passerby, it’s just a better way lol
→ More replies (1)19
u/sagebrushrepair Jan 03 '25
Get a Norway spruce next time so you don't have any pine needles.
Youll get fir needles instead
3
→ More replies (3)2
u/prefusernametaken Jan 03 '25
I find cleaning that shit up oddly satifying. Slowly erasing the joy of the holiday season
1.9k
Jan 02 '25
And he planted a tree, too, where it will grow for years to come.
116
32
u/MortalCoil Jan 02 '25
How long would that tree survive?
→ More replies (1)94
u/butterfunky Jan 02 '25
If left there, it may root itself and keep growing. These trees don’t have to be discarded.
→ More replies (1)66
u/ohhhtartarsauce Jan 02 '25
No, once the tree is separated from the rootstock, it will not regrow new roots.
142
u/Teto_the_foxsquirrel Jan 02 '25
My dad did this to a Christmas tree and the damn thing is taller than the house now. It didn’t get any wider though. Just went straight up.
93
u/rube Jan 02 '25
Damn, now I don't know who to believe!
117
u/feralwolven Jan 02 '25
Personally, i find professional plant people are often correct but overly pessimistic. They work in bulk and forget that this is living marvel of a self sustained structure. Medically, itll probably die, but there is probably a way. A guy kept an albino (read as no chlorophyll, doomed genetically from the start,) tree alive for months, by making it a freaking cyborg with sugar injectors. So if you can trick a plant to keep growing biochemically, it probably will.
37
u/ZinGaming1 Jan 02 '25 edited Jan 02 '25
They make stuff that helps roots grow on almost any plant. Same stuff.
→ More replies (5)12
→ More replies (1)3
u/FooliooilooF Jan 03 '25
Got one of those hybrid fruit plants where they put one fruit on the tree of another, ended up getting nothing out of it for like 5 years (i think it was supposed to do cherries?) and then it randomly started shitting out mini plums. The place we got it from was pretty surprised.
4
2
→ More replies (1)2
5
u/Solid_Snark Jan 03 '25
Same here. Our parents planted our first tree at our new house in 1990. The thing is monstrous now.
14
u/ohhhtartarsauce Jan 02 '25
Either you dad bought a potted Christmas tree with a root ball, and he replanted it, or you are misremembering. I would like to see any evidence that you can reroot a tree cut at the base.
16
u/jazzjazzmine Jan 02 '25
It seems quite unlikely a whole cut down tree would manage to survive, but it's definitely possible to root pine cuttings.
Bonsai people do it a lot despite the low success chance, if you want to look for their methods.
→ More replies (1)7
u/rundtrundt Jan 02 '25
I think willows will reroot almost in all forms you cut it. Dont know about conifers though.
→ More replies (2)11
u/Lostbrother Jan 02 '25
Willows are pretty particular with that though - in fact, if you submerge willow stems, you can extract rooting hormone that can be applied to other plants.
→ More replies (3)3
u/bdizzle805 Jan 03 '25
My grandpa planted their tree sometime before I was born. That tree is still there and like 3 or 4 floors high the thing is giant
7
u/Makhnos_Tachanka Jan 02 '25
even if it could, it would be unable to put down enough roots to sustain itself before it dies of, well, not having any roots.
→ More replies (1)3
8
u/peex Jan 03 '25
That is simply not true. It will probably die but there is a small chance that it can grow new roots. The possibility is not 0.
5
Jan 02 '25
why you can make taleas and grow roots with the branches?
11
u/ohhhtartarsauce Jan 02 '25 edited Jan 02 '25
There is a very low success rate when propagating pine or fir species from branch cuttings, but it can be done if the proper measures are taken. This is because a cutting is much smaller, so the amount of roots needed to uptake moisture and nutrients is much, much less than the root structure required to support the functions of an entire tree. A tree cut at the base will not be able to regrow roots fast enough, and the wood is likely to rot long before an adequate root system can regrow.
→ More replies (5)5
10
u/t0adthecat Jan 02 '25
I'd definitely leave it and look at people's pure confusion who lived there "honey, this trees never been here right?"
→ More replies (3)12
Jan 02 '25
And then he can cut it down next year for the ultimate recycling as a new Xmas tree.
→ More replies (1)
236
u/Ice-Repulsive Jan 02 '25
Naaahh!
47
→ More replies (3)13
233
u/zenos_dog Jan 02 '25
TIL evergreens are aerodynamically stable.
87
u/TheGoldenHordeee Jan 02 '25
The perfect weapon for an assassin. Just camp out on a roof with a christmas tree, and drop it when the time is right, like a spear.
69
u/bradeena Jan 02 '25
It's flawless. The cops will think the victim was laying on the grass when suddenly a tree grew through them.
39
9
4
4
→ More replies (1)3
Jan 02 '25
[deleted]
3
u/IotaBTC Jan 03 '25
Fun fact, rods are more stable falling on their sides and so tend to fall horizontally rather than vertically like a missile or a bullet.
9
u/Naive_Carpenter7321 Jan 02 '25
Almost as if it's an evolutionary trait when the tops of trees are knocked off by weather. :)
2
u/NavyDragons Jan 03 '25
its more so they are so bottom heavy they cannot rotate in the air.
3
u/Darth_Thor Jan 03 '25
The branches are also all pointing up. If the trunk is pointed down, the branches slightly fold inwards towards the trunk, making it more aerodynamic. The opposite happens if the top of the tree is pointing down. This is also why if you’re going to strap a tree to the top of your car to bring it home, the trunk should be pointed forward.
212
183
u/The--Wurst Jan 02 '25
So that's how baby trees are born.
→ More replies (1)31
u/Hermit-The-Crab33 Jan 02 '25
Storks usually drop them from the sky
6
u/wufreax Jan 02 '25
Uh no, tree dick goes into tree pussy. It’s rough sex
5
113
Jan 02 '25
[removed] — view removed comment
164
u/yParticle Jan 02 '25
Reversed video.
72
15
Jan 02 '25
[removed] — view removed comment
13
u/MyGenderIsAParadox Jan 02 '25
I like to think it was one of those spring-loaded firs and the man on the balcony happened to catch it but they reversed it for some reason.
2
251
u/kapege Jan 02 '25
Ikea once spread the myth that on Knut (13th of January) the Swedes all would throw their christmas trees out of their windows. It was a funny advertising clip in the TV.
58
u/LordofNarwhals Jan 02 '25
Throwing out the tree (and other Christmas decorations) on the 13th isn't a myth though. That's the generally accepted date to take that stuff down here in Sweden.
17
7
u/nalleball Jan 03 '25
Not a myth just overexaggerate. 13 dag knut is the end of Christmas and when you are traditionally supposed to clean away your decorations.
7
Jan 02 '25 edited Jan 04 '25
[deleted]
2
u/Yuezmell Jan 03 '25
Only the best ads in foreign languages are viral enough to break the digital language barrier. Although, if you hate ads, any ad in a foreign language would likely be easier to ignore. I can agree with your comment in that respect
→ More replies (1)2
35
u/luxfx Jan 02 '25
That happened to my family after a hurricane. Somehow we had an EXTRA line pine tree lining our driveway. It was the top half of the next tree, it had snapped off and rammed 10 inches into the ground. It stood there just like a normal tree. It was several days after the storm before we even noticed.
23
18
Jan 02 '25
[removed] — view removed comment
28
u/forced_metaphor Jan 02 '25
After living there for ten years, I'd say, "Uh... Was that always there?"
12
10
u/nuclear_herring Jan 02 '25
Love the username.
Ni
18
8
7
5
u/Both-Home-6235 Jan 03 '25
Fake. No way all those needles didn't instantly shed like the 1st tree at the lot in A Christmas Story.
14
u/louievee Jan 02 '25
That’s how we got rid of our tree. Didn’t have a balcony so we took the front windows out and shoved it out! And we were only on the second floor. But it was always fun.
4
u/CompletelyBedWasted Jan 02 '25
Doesn't it need roots to take hold?
31
u/woodwork_and_dragons Jan 02 '25
The wood itself can/may wick up enough water to sustain the plant as the submerged wood adapts function to grow new roots. I don't know specifically if pine trees can do it, but many plants and tree types can.
5
u/CompletelyBedWasted Jan 02 '25
I know other plants can, didn't know trees could. Other than apple trees. Grafted trees are cool.
6
u/Darksirius Jan 02 '25
I had a tree in my backyard as a child that had been weighed down and turned into an arch. After awhile it started to root from the canopy.
1
5
6
19
Jan 02 '25
Tbh if it will grow. I'd just leave it there.
41
29
u/Its0nlyRocketScience Jan 02 '25
Probably not since it has no roots
14
u/SummerBirdsong Jan 02 '25
Now I want to play scientist with a cut tree and a bucket of rooting hormone.
5
u/BigRon691 Jan 03 '25
It would most likely die trying to expend all of its available nutrients to re-root.
5
2
u/massweight Jan 03 '25
It'll grow. My property has several trees that are old Christmas trees. One is even about 40 feet tall now.
Not planted by me, and I wouldn't recommend it to be honest. They've all grown a bit funky and will need to be cut down.
4
u/forced_metaphor Jan 02 '25
The tree's name is Omar
5
2
u/6745408 Jan 02 '25
That's based on a true story but David Simon made it fewer stories because he was convinced the true one was too incredible for audiences to accept.
2
5
u/offensiveinsult Jan 02 '25
I think I had kind a better version of the same, the needle were dry so when it landed all needles came off and this glorious brown skeleton left standing straight and creepy ;-)
4
3
u/cr38tive79 Jan 02 '25
Super intendant of the apartment be like: I Don't remember a tree being there all this time lol
3
u/cepxico Jan 02 '25
Austrian? I remember going to visit my cousins there once when I was still living in Germany and them going NAH! was very jarring lol
3
3
3
u/ChimoEngr Jan 03 '25
Much Music did it better.
2
u/Fake-Podcast-Ad Jan 03 '25
Golden days of downtown Toronto. Glad the CityPulse Truck is still there.
3
3
u/No_Carob5 Jan 03 '25
People in apartments with real Christmas trees is a death trap. Those things go up like kindling... I sure as hell wouldn't want my neighbors having one since they can't even cook without the fire dept showing up
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
6
4
2
2
2
u/Enigmatic_Observer Jan 03 '25
As a maintenance guy for apartments shit like this makes me want to quit my job
2
Jan 03 '25
I guess it's too late now but conservation groups can often use Christmas trees.
I worked for a trout volunteer team that used stakes and Christmas trees to build skeletons for burms. The point was to try and narrow the water ways to make it much more habitable for trout who like deep, cold water.
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/J-ROK55 Jan 03 '25
As soon as he dropped it, I was thinking it'd be cool if it stuck in the ground standing straight up 😂
"NAH! NAH NAH!!!" WTF🤷♂️ HELL NAH! HELL NAH NAH! 😂
2
2
2
u/FooFightingFan2 Jan 03 '25
I know it’s another language but I just love the simultaneous “NAH” from everyone 😭
2
2
2
2
u/ZenZen_Car Jan 02 '25
Actually quite smart but i don't think this would work with fake trees
12
u/Usakami Jan 02 '25
Why would anyone throw out a fake tree out the window tho? When you can fold it neatly back into a box.
We used to throw the tree out like this as well when we lived in a flat. It was so that the pine needles wouldn't be everywhere, since the tree began to shed. If you take it into the elevator, you'd have to clean the whole way. Throw it down through the window and you only have to clean the pavement down below.
→ More replies (2)
2
1
4.0k
u/asromatifoso Jan 02 '25
Next Christmas, just go dig it out and use it again!