Can you spray paint a living tree?

Florist use a special spray paint for flowers when a odd color is required, check with your florist or a nursery they may be able to direct you to the appropriate paint if one is available for your project.

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Absolutely not. Spray paint and other oil based paints can cause severe damage or death to a tree for three reasons:

Paint can clog the lenticels, which are small openings which allow release of CO2 and absortion of O2 in respiration.

Non porous paint may interfere with photo receptors embedded in the stems, which nullifies the tree's ability to sense changes in light quality, intensity and duration, factors which help trees grow in spring and lose their leaves in preparation for winter cold.

Bark and cambium layers can be damaged if a tree absorbs paint chemicals present in oil-based paints.

Thank you for the information. I don’t what I was thinking spraying poison on a living plant. I’ve long since given up on that idea, I appreciate your concise answer,

Tree guard paints are sold as organic and non-organic products. Some gardeners use a light-colored interior latex-based paint diluted with 50% water.

Both sunburn and sun scald can cause the tree's bark to crack or die, resulting in additional stress which is compounded by insects and parasites that enter the barkless wood, an invasion that will ultimately shorten the tree's life. Tree paint or whitewash protects against this.[2]

Some tree paints, depending on ingredients, also protect against insects and rodents. For example, neem oil has been used by Indian farmers for thousands of years, for many uses, including as a natural insect repellent and insecticide. Plants sprayed with diluted neem oil repel insects, and smothers those who come into contact with it, ultimately killing most insects that ingest the product within 1–3 days.

Castor oil, derived from the castor tree seed, gives a coated surface an unpleasant taste to rodents, such as rats, moles, voles, gophers and rabbits that may otherwise gnaw on the tree's bark.[3]

Tree paint may help to prevent disease-carrying insects from entering a wounded tree.[4] Studies have shown that wound dressing must be applied immediately after damage or pruning. Even a delay of three days can be too long.[1]

White tree paint is commonly applied to citrus trees to keep the affected tissues from overheating, as dark-colored paint can raise the surface temperature of the treated tissues. The classic tree paint is black, because it is based on an asphalt emulsion.

Consumer versions of tree paint may come in spray cans, commercial application may involve paint guns. Tree paint can also applied by brush.

An organic tree paint can be made; it is similar to a brushable mud.