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Posted on 2/19/17 at 5:06 pm to JoePepitone
I only see the white painted on citrus trees out here in AZ.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 5:19 pm to TidenUP
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I know some folks that would put thin sheet metal around the trunks of their pecan trees to keep squirrels from climbing them
That's a good idea, especially since the pecans never fall to the ground.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 5:31 pm to GEAUXT
My Grandfather would paint the spot on the Pine Tree after he'd back into it and knock the bark off.
There were quite a few when he had to stop driving.
Good times.
There were quite a few when he had to stop driving.
Good times.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 6:12 pm to GEAUXT
Why in hell would you paint a tree when you can just wrap it in tinfoil.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 6:16 pm to GEAUXT
Wow, I can't believe this thread. For some reason I thought of this topic today and viola! I read about it here! I have not seen the painting of trees since I was a little boy growing up in Mississippi. It was not an uncommon sight.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 6:17 pm to GEAUXT
Everyone down the bayou had white bottom trees
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:27 pm to SamuelClemens
They used to do it in Texas too. These days, most arborist will tell you it doesn't protect the tree.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:30 pm to Martini
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It's not trashy just old timey.
It's still practiced in commercial agriculture, orchards, etc. My sister and brother and law worked in nurseries grafting and growing trees. They used lime and water. It's somehow beneficial to certain young trees, mainly fruit I believe. I understood it protects the bark from sun when young and leaves weren't thick and also inhibits certain parasites. I agree you could see it everywhere in the 60's but it's still done and has a purpose.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:35 pm to TurkeysAndBees
I had an elderly neighbor who kept his trees painted like that. When I asked him why he said, "Because it makes them look neater." Smh.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:37 pm to GEAUXT
My grandparents used to whitewash several pecan trees in their yard.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:54 pm to GEAUXT
If it was done in the 60s or 70s; country folks did it for what they considered a good reason - whatever that happened to be. They didn't have money to waste on paint for no good reason nor the time to waste doing the painting. Time and money weren't often easy to come by for many.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:52 pm to GEAUXT
I haven't seen or even thought of that since I was a kid...used to be pretty damn common, if I remember correctly.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:55 pm to GEAUXT
Yes. I didn't grow up in the south. Heartland white wash.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:57 pm to GEAUXT
People from Puerto Rico do that a lot as well. You see it in Hispanic communities here in Florida.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 9:00 pm to LSUwag
The internet says the main reason people do this is to protect tree bark from the sun during winter.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 9:00 pm to LSUwag
My grandparents made me do the whitewashing. Every damn summer.
Then I got smart and traded my marbles and slingshot to my neighborhood friends so they would do it.
Then I got smart and traded my marbles and slingshot to my neighborhood friends so they would do it.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 9:52 pm to GEAUXT
It was common when I was a kid and I see it all over China and SE Asia when I travel there for work. It kills burrowing ground insects that have to eat through the paint to get into the tree.
Posted on 2/20/17 at 4:32 am to GEAUXT
I saw this a lot as a child going to South Ga. (mainly on pine trees) Rarely did you see it above Macon. I asked a few old timers after I got grown and the response was always that it prevented some sort of beetle from boring into the tree.
Posted on 2/20/17 at 4:50 am to HaveMercy
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If it was done in the 60s or 70s; country folks did it for what they considered a good reason - whatever that happened to be. They didn't have money to waste on paint for no good reason nor the time to waste doing the painting. Time and money weren't often easy to come by for many.
Now read that in your head as Morgan Freeman
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