Attack with rotting apples: how to cure tree

Did you notice that the apples in your garden begin to rot on the tree? First, turn brown, and then - mummified and fall to the ground? Pleasant enough. This means that your site is visited by fruit rot of apple, or moniliosis. A well-recognized disease. With that, fortunately, the gardener can successfully fight.

Apple moniliosis dangerous because much effort on the harvest. Affected fruits deteriorate rapidly and is no longer suitable for human consumption. But the main danger - lightning-fast spread of the disease to other trees! So do not sit idly by.

What is this disease and how it is taken

Moniliosis - a fungal disease of garden trees. Development of adversity in apple and pear stimulates the activity of the fungus Monilia fructigena. Other species may cause "burn" the leaves and hit cherries, plums and apricots.

Causes of fruit rot have little to do with poor care. The fungus is taken literally from the air - so spread spores of the microorganism.

Ideal conditions for the rapid development of the pathogen moniliosis - moist and relatively cool weather (15-20 ° C). Therefore infections apple peak in the second half of the summer season. And Monilia fructigena rampant in the rainy summer.

Fungus spores mature into white pustules:

When the time comes, pustules vskroyutsya. Spores of the fungus will spread the wind, and the microorganism is able to capture the new trees. Monilia fructigena overwinters on infected fruit, and even in cracks in the bark of the tree garden.

What to do

I really like the expression: "Smart eliminate the cause of a fool infinitely running and struggling with the consequences." I can write just about the processing of apple, fruit rot suffering, but no preventive measures of the fungus will come back next year.

Unfortunately, gardeners need to take an unpleasant fact: the fungus spores will still always be flying in the air. Even if there are no sick trees in the area, from a neighbor that a fly). Therefore, we must first secure the apple:

• Begin to take care of the apple trees from seed, keeping the distance between the seedlings taking into account the size of the adult plant. Tightness provokes rapid infection of neighboring trees. For example, standard sizes between trees should not be mensche 5 meters.
• Regularly pruning: sanitary (cut out diseased branches) and forms (no thickening).
• Close up cracks in trees garden pitch, so that they do not populate fungus spores.
• The main thing is sure to collect and dispose of diseased fruit. Leave them hanging on the tree, of course, it is also impossible. Disputes again scatter around the garden!

medical treatment

There are 2 great ways that destroy the nasty fungus:

• Bordeaux mixture and its analogs with copper;
• Swiss preparation "Chorus" with the chemical composition. It collects a lot of positive feedback.

The treatment of infected trees is best done in the spring (when the fungus is just starting their livelihoods) and autumn (eliminate that flew). Healthy all gardens! Read more: How to properly care for strawberries after plodonosheniya.🍓 for high yields