Caulking exterior window trim to keep out water from coming inside?
We plan to replace our window trim and repaint our house in the Spring of 2021. In the meantime one of our window trims is starting to rot and the caulking around the trim has started to break away from the window trim. I caulked around that entire window (top of trim, right side of trim, left side of trim, and bottom side of trim) last week to try to hold off any water entering the house until we re-trim our windows in the Spring.
3 days after I caulked around the window and after some rain I noticed some brown water marks on the interior window ledge on that specific window. I don't recall seeing brown water marks on the interior window ledge before I caulked the exterior trim last week and it seems like my caulking last week seems to have now made the water enter our house where it wasn't really a problem before. Someone once told me that I shouldn't caulk on the underside of the window trim......Is that what I did wrong or if not what should I do to stop the water from entering from the window?
3 days after I caulked around the window and after some rain I noticed some brown water marks on the interior window ledge on that specific window. I don't recall seeing brown water marks on the interior window ledge before I caulked the exterior trim last week and it seems like my caulking last week seems to have now made the water enter our house where it wasn't really a problem before. Someone once told me that I shouldn't caulk on the underside of the window trim......Is that what I did wrong or if not what should I do to stop the water from entering from the window?