Wrapping fruit trees in winter

[Knehrke]

My question is whether I need to use a white spiral wrap on my apple trees to prevent sunscald when they're already double wrapped in aluminum window screen to prevent rodent damage. Thanks!

 

[sandbur]

My question is whether I need to use a white spiral wrap on my apple trees to prevent sunscald when they're already double wrapped in aluminum window screen to prevent rodent damage. Thanks!

Some paint the trunks with white paint before the screen is put on. You just need to shade the trunk on the exposed side and the SW side is usually the worst.

Perhaps you can get some white paint to stick to the S or Sw side of the screen.

I have been using a wider piece of window screen and I fold it over/double it for extra shade on the SW side. Staple it in place.


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[sandbur]

Some paint the trunks with white paint before the screen is put on. You just need to shade the trunk on the exposed side and the SW side is usually the worst.

Perhaps you can get some white paint to stick to the S or Sw side of the screen.

I have been using a wider piece of window screen and I fold it over/double it for extra shade on the SW side. Staple it in place.


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Maybe I can find a better picture.



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[sandbur]

Maybe I can find a better picture.



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This is a picture from a tree I planted spring of this year and shows the extra screen on the SW side. By fall, I unfolded the screen to a higher point and stapled it tight around the trunk on the top.



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[tynimiller]

Special kind of paint?

 

[4wanderingeyes]

Latex.

 

[tynimiller]

This is something I didn't even think of....gonna need to get some paint on a few of my trees, especially the ones more exposed with less shading.

 

[silver_yummies]

I actually mixed a 50/50 solution of white latex paint and water in one of those $10 1 gallon hand sprayers and sprayed my trunks that way this fall - worked extremely well. I had to unclog the nozzle once or twice but I did 60 trees in like 40 minutes.

 

[CrazyEd]

I too use 50% paint, 50% water and a few splashes of sevin, the sevin will help protect from borers.

 

[tynimiller]

Is it too late to do this now? My trees are in their first year in the ground.....a few get about full sun from sun up to sun down.....fruit tree novice openly admitting no clue.

 

[tynimiller]

I too use 50% paint, 50% water and a few splashes of sevin, the sevin will help protect from borers.

So you just sprinkle the sevin onto the mix right after spraying? This sounds perfect.

Now another fruit tree newb question. I am focusing on the main trunk of the tree correct? Branches you don't need to paint as sunscalding doesn't appear to be an issue as with the trunk from what I have researched right?

 

[4wanderingeyes]

ty, the reason for painting the trunks, is in the spring, as the temps start warming, and the warm sun shines on the trees, the sap starts flowing up the trunks, then it re freezes, and the sap expands and can split the trunk. There is less danger of a branch getting enough sap into it, that it will split, and even if it did, you can trim that branch off. You cant trim the trunk.

 

[tynimiller]

ty, the reason for painting the trunks, is in the spring, as the temps start warming, and the warm sun shines on the trees, the sap starts flowing up the trunks, then it re freezes, and the sap expands and can split the trunk. There is less danger of a branch getting enough sap into it, that it will split, and even if it did, you can trim that branch off. You cant trim the trunk.

Okay good deal, so I should be okay so long as I treat the things before that shifting back and forth. Is this something I could do when I go in to spray the branches and such with dormant oil? Thanks in advance.

 

[Mortenson]

I've seen too where guys add drywall compound to the latex paint mix.

 

[CrazyEd]

So you just sprinkle the sevin onto the mix right after spraying? This sounds perfect.

Now another fruit tree newb question. I am focusing on the main trunk of the tree correct? Branches you don't need to paint as sunscalding doesn't appear to be an issue as with the trunk from what I have researched right?

50% White Indoor Latex Paint + 50% Water + Sevin (Or permethrin is what ben hooper used) all in a bucket mixed up, apply with paint brush. I do know some people paint the lower branches. For me I mostly stick to the trunk.