4 Pack 48 Inch Clear Christmas Tree Watering Funnel with Long Plastic Tube Watering System for Large Indoor Outdoor Xmas Tree Prevents Fire

Why it's worth it

This is a clear funnel on a 48-inch tube that you tuck into the branches and run down into your existing stand. You pour from standing height, watch the water rise in the tube, and never move an ornament. It comes as a four-pack.

If you already own a stand that works, this is the only upgrade you need. The tube drops into the basin and the funnel sits up in the branches where you can reach it. No crawling, no pitcher balanced on your knee, no shower of needles down your collar. That's the complaint owners raise over and over about watering a tree, and this solves it for the price of a couple of ornaments.

The clear tube is a better water gauge than most stands have. You can see the level rise as you pour, which means you stop before it overflows onto the floor. It also gives you a rough read on how fast the tree is drinking. That matters most in the first week, when a fresh tree can go through a gallon a day and a stand can run dry between one evening and the next.

From our review of 5 christmas tree watering systems

What we like

• +If you already own a stand that works, this is the only upgrade you need
• +The clear tube is a better water gauge than most stands have
• +Bob Vila's review panel found that funnel-and-tube kits hydrated trees just as well as automatic pump systems, as long as people…
• +It's passive, so nothing can fail in an interesting way

What to know

• –The build is exactly what you'd expect at this price
• –There's no water-level indicator beyond what you can see in the tube, so you still have to remember to go pour