Paint Your Fruit Tree

a critical problem with growing fruit trees anywhere is always going to be sunburned ed libel with Dave Wilson nursery then revisit treating sunburn on a fruit tree this is sunburn damage right here very very important consideration for this time of the year or for the hot time of the year and so what we're going to illustrate here is we're going to illustrate how you deal with sunburn once you have it and in the same at the same time we're also going to illustrate how you take and prevent it we'll take a quick look at what typical sunburn damage looks like and first thing you do is clean out and expose the dead tissue what you do is you clean it back to you find the tissue has healed itself we'll go ahead and treat that sunburn damage by painting the tree with an interior latex paint always an interior latex paint never an oil-based paint never an exterior latex paint because it has a fungicide in it and I'm choosing a light green you can choose any color that has nice vibrant reflective qualities so you want it to be bright and in this case we're going to use green because we're going to paint this trunk of the flavor grenade pluot which is a very wonderful plot kind of a green yellow color so this might be appropriate for that we mix the paint up a little bit here we're going to mix it half and a half with water so we'll put just a little bit of paint in the bucket doesn't have to be a lot nice and nice and mixed up door we're putting this paint on to help of course protect from the damaging he rays of the Sun but at the same time we're also putting it on because it will help to keep boars from penetrating into this damaged tissue which boars love so in most cases what we would do is we would let this dry out completely but in this case for the sake of demonstration we're not going to we're not going to do that we're just going to paint go ahead and get get it on nice and liberally stark white doesn't need to be the the color that you use all the time just having reflective qualities tops a bunch just make sure you get all of the all of the tree covered nice and thoroughly into all the cracks especially anything facing the south to southwest any part of the tree that's faced that's exposed going to south southwest needs to be painted right now in this peach tree what we're doing is we're going to this a bigger peach tree so we're going to take we need to use a spray ball and you take a funnel and mix up your paint with your 50% water you want to put the run the paint through a cheesecloth so you kind of get the any of the larger particles out so that it doesn't plug up and then you just go ahead and you apply it liberally to the side to the trunk of the tree again all the way up into the canopy and this is a quick way of doing older trees

Channel: Dave Wilson Nursery

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Keywords: fruit, tree, sunburn, bores, painting, trees, dave, wilson, nursery

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Length: 3min 17sec (197 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2009