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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. 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. 5 rowsTo use Spectracide Pruning Seal, shake well and hold can upright inches from the area to be Reviews: Also called pruning sealers, pruning paint, or wound paint, the products found online and in stores are thick liquids made to be painted onto the area where you have cut back your tree.

They claim to promote the healing of pruning cuts and minimize sap treegrind.barted Reading Time: 8 mins. Jul 08, A tree pruning sealer is a specially designed waterproof product that is applied, or “painted” onto the exposed cut on a limb or branch after pruning. For many, many years - and still to this day in some cases - people were told by an arborist that tree wound had to Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.

Feb 10, Treating Cut Tree Limbs with Wound Paint Wound paints and dressings claim to prevent rot and help trees heal from pruning wounds, but research suggests that they actually do more harm than good. When you cut off a tree limb, or the bark gets damaged, the tree never actually “heals.”Reviews: Dec 14, How to Seal a Cut Limb on a Tree. In most cases, it is actually better to leave a cut tree limb alone and let the tree seal itself, which it will do over the course of one or two years.

In certain. Cut a thin portion of 1/2 inches from the limb stub so the surface will be smooth (the remaining area where the limb used to be should be about 2 inches outward from the trunk Dust off the debris from the stub (this will create a nice surface for the liquid pruning sealer to properly coat) Get a paintbrush and dip into the liquid sealer.