Why do apples rot on the tree and how to fight it

Many people who hold on your site apple, familiar with the problem of rotten fruit when, instead of tasty and juicy crop see the apple which is covered with a touch of strange - this is a touch of dangerous fungus that spreads with incredible speed.

It all starts with small brown spots that grow over time and cover all the fruit whole, and then all the apple, if you do not start treatment.

Who's guilty ?

A disease that covers the apple tree is called - fruit rot.
Most often, the causative agents of these diseases are different birds and insects, and various mechanical damage wrought by nature or by man.
In rare cases the rot affects not only the fruit but also the branches are dry.

How to deal?

Fruit rot, it is very difficult to cure, but to prevent its emergence possible, if you do these activities each year:

• Make timely autumn and spring pruning.
• Adding potash and phosphate fertilizers.
• Removal of branches, leaves, fruits, which are affected by the disease.
• Annual whitewash.

Unfortunately, without the use of chemicals to cope with rot is almost impossible, in fact, we can help the same means:

Bordeaux mixture 3% or Horus.
After harvesting, the tree can spray the copper sulfate (for 10 liters water, 100 grams of sulfate).

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