1.   A. Stopping cedar bleed can be tricky, as you have found out.

2.   A. Hmm, it seems strange that no cedar bleed showed through the yellow but did through the gray.

3.   All you have to worry about is cedar bleed.

4.   But first put an oil-based exterior primer to help stop cedar bleed, brown stains that often appear on finished cedar, especially a light color.

5.   Cedar bleed can be washed off, but it becomes a constant, paint-in-the-neck maintenance chore.

6.   Cedar bleed is caused by moisture, and appears as brown stains on light-colored paint, stain, or other finish on red cedar clapboards and shingles.

7.   I say iffy because while most paint companies make a primer designed specifically to stop that cedar bleed, the primer is a paint, and therefore can peel.

8.   Oh, yes, the dreaded cedar bleed, those brown stains that appear on light-colored surfaces.

9.   One way to stop and prevent cedar bleed is to prime the surface with an oil-based primer, then put a solid color stain over that.

10.   Recently I had a gray latex solid stain applied over the yellow, and now I am getting cedar bleed, those brown stains on the gray finish.