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Originally Posted by Dreubber
Would boiling pine needles into a tea also work? We cut our own christmas tree this year and still have it
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I could not tell you as I have never tried. Boiling any plant material and then slowly boiling the liquid infused with pine needles may produce a tincture or an extract, so I do not know the outcome of your experiment.
Commercially grown trees for the Christmas Holidays are often sprayed or treated for pine borers and pine bark beetles, and wood boring insects.
With that in mind, you still take your chances with potentially contaminated pine needles.
My BEST results have always been with the genuine pine oil and boric acid with sugar.
Best of luck and Happy New Year!
Gone Bananas,
Mark Anthony