Dave Wilson Nursery, Paint Your Tree
Hello, I’m Ed Laivo of Dave Wilson Nursery. I’m going to look at a major problem that people faced in growing fruit trees and that is bore damage and how do you deal with bore damage and how do you protect the tree from getting this pest problem.
And this particular damage is done by a flat head borer or a typical crown borer would cause this kind of damage. You can see how extensive, one bore entering into the crown of the tree has burrowed through the cambium and destroyed all that tissue.
One of the most important things to remember is this, bore damage is usually the result of sunburn damage to the tree. So, the way we’re going to cut down the opportunity for the bore to have an easy entry place that is through the sunburned damage tissue is by painting the trunk.
You can do this in a number of different ways. You can use a gypsum and use it as in a whitewash style. You can use an interior white Latex paint. Never use a exterior because it has a 1:04 in it or what we’re going to do here is we’re going to use an organic base paint. It doesn’t have any of the toxins that the typical interior paint would use.
Now, the thing I would encourage you to do is let’s have some fun. Let’s make sure that we’re going to take this decorative potty rough of trees here and we’re going to paint them red, any bright color is going to work just fine so because the main objective is to call us the reflection of the sun so we’re going to use this beautiful red paint. We’ll do it by 50% with water. Let’s see what it looks like.
This is really, really important practice where we have summers like in Central California, Arizona, Texas, and of the Nebraska where you have hot summers, where the heat gets up very, very high. This tree is an apple and it just shows up really light red. I’m sure that it’s probably pretty bright right now but it will dry it like most light red tone. People are attracted. This tree actually blooms with a light red bloom so next spring it will kind of contrast very nicely in the container. There we go.
Here are some exciting new items from Dave Wilson Nursery. This is a Bing cherry on an exciting rootstock at 3RC 178. That’s what it’s called when it’s introduce in the next two years but this rootstock will be ideal for container growing. Here’s why we bring it up in this segment is cherry trees in containers or all of fruit trees in containers will benefit from having their trunks painted.
All right, here we are 3RC-178. We’re going to take this new exciting rootstock and we’re going to take and make sure it gets painted because even most much exposure in the hot afternoon sun this middle of the summer could end up causing tissue damage and of course a bore infestation that on one tree it even caused it to die.
So, we’re going to make sure that even this middle exposure is absolutely painted and of course here again, we’re going to use this nice red paint because of course, red cherries, red paint almost seem splitting and get right up to where the leaf or the tool takes over its duty and that’s to protect the leaves and the trunk further up into the tree from it’s exposure to the damaging sun.
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