The good news, the plastic piece that goes in the ...

The good news, the plastic piece that goes in the stand worked perfectly and seems like a really good reliable float valve. Our tree laster until January 8th and never dried up, with very few needles falling off when we moved it out of the the house. The bad news is the bag that you're supposed to use is absolutely atrocious. There's no way to hold this open and fill it. I ended up spilling more water on the floor trying to refill this every few days than I would have just using a pitcher straight in the stand. The hole to put water in is too small, and there's no useful way to hold the bag open while filling. Once you've got it filled you have to figure out how to out the cap on, without the water coming out the front. Camelbak has already solved this problem with their water bladders and I think next year I'll swap out the bag for a camelbak bladder.

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