Apple tree diseases and their treatment

For lovers of sweet and delicious apples It is no secret that getting a good harvest requires a lot of effort. First of all, apple tree diseases and their treatment should be studied by both beginners and experienced gardeners. Agree that this is important in order to prevent sad consequences for the trees. It will be very disappointing if, after you have worked hard and are waiting for a good harvest, you suddenly notice that the apple tree is sick and will not be able to please you with tasty, ripe fruits. Moreover, the tree may even die from one disease or another.

Content:

• Powdery mildew
• Scab
• Fruit rot or moniliosis
• Cytosporosis - bark disease

And in this article we will touch on exactly this topic: some apple tree diseases and their treatment. In order to fight, you need to know the enemy by sight.

Powdery mildew

Often the apple tree is affected powdery mildew. This disease is a fungal disease that can affect almost all important parts of the plant - buds, leaves, shoots, inflorescences. First, a dirty white powdery coating begins to appear on these parts, then this coating becomes brownish, with black dots. After infection, the leaves begin to dry out and turn yellow. This leads to the fact that the fruits do not set.

Basically, this disease develops with high air or soil humidity.

But in order to prevent powdery mildew from damaging the plant, it is necessary in the spring, when the flowers begin to bloom, to treat the tree with Topaz or Skor.After the tree has flowered, it is treated with copper oxychloride. And after harvesting, they are again sprayed with a suitable preparation, for example, a solution of liquid soap and copper sulfate. This way you can save your apple tree from powdery mildew. Although, it must be admitted that this disease is very insidious and can constantly recur.

Scab

Apple scab can also be identified among the diseases. This is also a fungal disease, it affects not only the apple tree, but also pear. Scab spores are carried by the wind and then germinate if the air is sufficiently humid. This disease manifests itself in the form of a brown coating on the leaves, after which the leaves begin to dry out and fall off. The fruits stop growing and black and gray spots and cracks form on them. It is quite possible that flowers and stalks may be affected by scab. It is strictly forbidden to eat such fruits, otherwise you can be poisoned by them. And the sight of apples affected by scab is not at all attractive.

To get rid of scab, it is necessary in the spring, when the leaves are blooming, to treat with Topaz solution. And the second treatment is necessary after flowering with a solution of the drug “Hom” or “Colloidal Sulfur”.

Fruit rot or moniliosis

The disease is very insidious and cunning. Infection of fruits usually begins at the end of summer, at the very ripening of apples. A very small fawn-colored speck appears, which quickly becomes huge, covering the entire surface of the fruit. As a result, all apples become completely soft and brown in color. And it’s absolutely impossible to eat such apples. Moniliosis is sometimes even worse than scab or powdery mildew, because it does not appear immediately, but during the fruiting period.

It is recommended to fight this infection with the already familiar drug “Hom”. This needs to be done twice: in the midst of the formation of young leaves and after the apple tree has bloomed. Simply dilute the solution with water in the percentage indicated on the label and spray the entire tree.

Cytosporosis - bark disease

Another one of the most common diseases of the apple tree is again a fungal infection - cytosporosis. It captures the bark of the plant and as a result, dark-colored cankers appear on the trunk and branches of the tree. They gradually become deeper and already cover more and more space in the tree bark. Cytosporosis of an apple tree is diagnosed in exactly this way: if the trunk is affected by brown-red ulcers, then this means that this is exactly the same fungal disease - cytosporosis.

The bark in places of such ulcers quickly dies, and the branches simply fall to the ground, and the apple tree may well die. Most likely, such a disease will develop in bad conditions: improper watering, poor or very heavy soil and others.

The drug “Hom” will again save you from this scourge. On a warm day, you need to spray the entire tree when the buds have just begun to swell, diluting the drug in a bucket at the rate of 40 grams. "Homa" for 10 liters of water.

But the next treatment is best done with a solution of copper sulfate, you need to take 50 grams of it. per 10 liters of water and spray the tree before it blooms. The third spraying is carried out again with Hom, but only after flowering.

We have listed only some diseases of apple trees and advised what treatment can be carried out. Perhaps, after reading this article, you will be able to recognize the disease at its very beginning and not delay treating your apple tree.And she, in turn, will gratefully give you delicious apples.