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Feb 09, To use Spectracide Pruning Seal, shake well and hold can upright inches from the area to be sprayed. Spray in short bursts to prevent dripping and runoff.

Plus, pruning makes your tree look better - and results in a larger harvest from fruit trees!

Clean the nozzle after use. When treating damaged or decayed limbs, cut back to sound wood first. When sealing the inside of planters, spray lightly to prevent dripping/5.

Tanglefoot Tree Pruning Sealer (Aerosol), 9 oz. I have a young Mexican White (Monterrey) Oak that had a lot of low branches developing. I pruned it to shape it up and applied this spray as directed. At first, the application points were black and the young tree appeared spray-painted. Now, three months later, the coloring in those spots is /5(K).

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fungal spread when pruning. Always paint fresh wounds on oaks, including pruning cuts and stumps, with wound dressing or latex paint immediately after pruning or live tree removal at all times of the year.

Clean all pruning tools with 10% bleach solution or Lysol between sites and/or stumpdelimbing.bar Size: 60KB. Apr 14, No – you should not generally use pruning sealers after pruning your trees or shrubs. The main exception is when trees like elms and oaks, which are susceptible to vascular wilts such as Dutch elm disease and oak wilt, have to be pruned during the growing season for safety reasons. Aug 14, Product Overview. This is designed to stop tree decay. TreeKote Tree Paint Wound Dressing is an Asphalt based emulsion that protects trees after pruning or bark damage.

When applied within 3-days of pruning or damage, TreeKote Tree Paint Wound Dressing seals the affected area to protect against insects and fungi that can cause disease or decay.5/5(16). Nov 26, Oak wilt is caused by bugs that feed on the sap of a newly trimmed tree. The bug carries spores from an infected tree to a healthy tree and, in some cases, causes death. The best way to avoid oak wilt is to trim your tree in the winter because there is less chance that a bug will contaminate your tree.

2. Clean Your Trimming Tools Before UseEstimated Reading Time: 2 mins. Oct 07, In Texas, there is one exception: Pruning paint has been shown to offer some additional protection from a disease we call"Oak Wilt." Basically, Oak Wilt is a fungal disease spread by insects. These insects are attracted to sweet smells or the smell of rotting fruit.

A fresh pruning cut or wound in a tree often has this smell. Jul 16, While this look is a bit over the top for some, I have always wanted to spray paint branches to make them sculptural.

So I was pruning my wild oak tree last weekend. It should be no surprise that I decided to use one of the Charlie Brown branches to make a jewelry holder. Here’s a peek.