I "painted" my fruit trees…"

This seems insane, but it’s improved the health of our young fruit trees in the Epic Orchard immeasurably as we’ve planted 40+ fruit trees.

17 Replies to “I "painted" my fruit trees…"”

  1. I was in Asia last year and was wondering why they painted their trees in one of the parks I visited. Neat

  2. Be careful with that paint because it does have diatomaceous earth in it and will kill all good bugs (bees, lady bugs, praying mantises, etc.) as well as the bad ones. All I do to prevent sunburn is allow my fruit trees to grow branches low so that the trunk is protected. With proper tip pruning trees will get a lot of leaves and branches preventing sunburned branches.

  3. or you could plant native trees that are adapted to your area and therefore don’t need paint 😃

  4. I thought they were painted so birds could more easily see the insects better… what I was told by someone else anyways. Sunburn makes more sense.

  5. In Mexico we do that to all of our trees. From Guava, to Lemon to Avocado Trees! It really does help. But we only use Lime deluded in water, nothing fancy.

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