I need input about using fake trees for minis

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mberta2

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Hey guys. My mini tree idea fell through. I'm in a but of a panic trying to figure out what to do. I made all of my sequences to accommodate 8 mini trees with 50 to 60 rbg nodes each. I had originally planned to use tomato cages and wrap the rgb nodes around then, but they look terrible. I was thinking about buying some white, fake trees. Maybe 2ft to 3ft tall. I'm afraid they won't last long outside seeing as they are made for indoor use only. I was watching some sequences where people used white trees with rgb nodes and I love the look of the "glowing" tree. I live in central Illinois and am afraid they won't last long. What do to guys think?

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Why not buy the medium mini trees from Boscoyo studios. I use them as a 180 tree with 50 nodes for the tree and 10 in the star.
 
I use the Walmart artificial trees for last 3 years. I have them out from Dec 1 to Jan 2 and they have lasted. I like them. They look nice during the day. I used to use tomato cages and switched for same reason as you.
 
Dpitts, what kind of weather do you have? Last year my props were covered in ice when I brought them in so...

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I also use the 6' Wal-mart trees. I cut the base off of them and just slip them over rebar. Easy and no problems with wind knocking them over. Picked them up for $7.50 each two years ago, retail was $49.00. They look like evergreens growing in the yard.

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mberta2 said:
Dpitts, what kind of weather do you have? Last year my props were covered in ice when I brought them in so...

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I live in Colorado Springs at 7000ft elevation. Rarely get ice though and the snow is super dry. But many times I need to dig out the mini trees because they are buried in 1-2 feet of snow.
 
If have some V1 strips from James, was planning on wrapping 54" tomato cages with them. I have more than enough V1 strips I'd give u a deal on. When I tested them, they were nice and straight. PM if you wanna work something out.
 
I have a ton of mounting strips from holidaycoro. I ordered 75-94" sections when i was building my pixel tree. I knew they went fast so i bought like 3x more than i needed.I thought about using them but I'm not sure how I would do it. I am interested in the 180 trees from boscoyo. Anyone have pics of them?

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Xenia said:
I also use the 6' Wal-mart trees. I cut the base off of them and just slip them over rebar. Easy and no problems with wind knocking them over. Picked them up for $7.50 each two years ago, retail was $49.00. They look like evergreens growing in the yard.

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Xenia, where's the snow? Are you setup for this year already? :razz:
 
I live in southern Indiana. We had a fair amount of snow this past year. My 4 foot trees still look brand new. They actually looked really nice covered in snow too a

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dpitts said:
I use the Walmart artificial trees for last 3 years. I have them out from Dec 1 to Jan 2 and they have lasted. I like them. They look nice during the day. I used to use tomato cages and switched for same reason as you.
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I have 24 of them and are working great also.
 
I've got 10 artificial evergreen trees. They're about 3' tall and wrapped in leds. I've had them for 3 years in Chicago and previous to that they spent several years in central Indiana. They're holding up well. Similar to randy, I just slip them over rebar driven into the ground.


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I like a lot of boyscoyo's stuff, but I just couldn't love the minitrees... :-(

i got a couple to try and they just looked "too perfect." or too uniform.... not sure how to describe it, but I felt they just lost that christmas tree look. More like super-bright space cones :)

Nevertheless, Im trying to replace my old-school incan mini might trees with rgb lights this year.. and I need to build 20 minitrees. i WISH I could find affordable 3' or 4' fake trees to use (I don't have the luxury of waiting till the after-xmas sales).
 
Well based on my budget, and my lack of free time to work on the show, I'm gonna try the boscoyo minis. I understand what you mean about too pefect, but I think with the stars they will look good. They will match well with my new pixel mega tree this year too. I hope I like them. I just ordered them. I guess if I dont, I will use them and then get walmart trees after Christmas for next year. Thanks everyone for your input. This forum is awesome.

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Thanks JonB. Those look amazing. I'm using rgb node this year for them, but I think I might have to step up to pixels next year. I wasn't going to use pixel all this year, but I later decided to build a 900 pixel mega tree. Blew most of my budget and time buying that and figuring out how it all works. These boscoyo med 180 trees will save me a bunch of time and money. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to add in the star. I only figured 60 nodes per tree, and those take 70 for the tree and star. I am using 2- 27ch holidaycoro rgb controllers to control 8 trees.

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You do 5 columns of 10 on the trees and only 10 for the star. 10 for the star is just right. 20 makes it too bright so your 60 count is perfect.
 
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