The main diseases of apple trees and their treatment
Tasty apples, just ripped from a healthy branchstrong apple-tree - there is nothing more pleasant, especially if the tree has grown in its own garden. Well-groomed plants and good harvests are the dream of every amateur horticulturist. But, unfortunately, this result is very difficult to achieve, because often the various diseases of the apple tree are affected, and their treatment takes a lot of time and money. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out a thorough inspection of young seedlings when buying, as well as already solid trees that are planted in the garden. How to protect your trees from pests, as well as how to treat them, if the disease is still overtaken, we will consider below.
To make a diagnosis,carefully examine the "patients". If you saw that the bark has become frizzy, you can see the dried dead pieces on its surface, the integrity is broken (there were cracks), then it's time to take the cortex treatment. These symptoms indicate that your tree has been affected by any of these diseases, such as black cancer, cystoporosis or bacterial cancer. Apple tree diseases and their treatment require care and great patience from the gardener.
Let us consider in detail each of the diagnoses
Bacterial cancer is a disease that affectsthe skeleton of a tree. It appears as oval spots of a pinkish-brown color, bordered by a violet stripe. These lesions are slightly impressed on the surface of the cortex. In these places it softens, has a rotting appearance, slightly smells of almonds. It affects not only the bark, but also other parts of the tree: the leaves show dark brown specks of dead tissue, on branches and trunks the amount and size of cracks that can ooze during the sap flow are increasing. There is a second variant of manifestation of this disease: first of all, a painful juice flows, and then the bark becomes darker and dries. There are fewer leaves on the sick branches. In any case, the treatment of the tree bark will be identical in both situations. There are many kinds of cancer, but they have similar symptoms in the initial stage.
Cystoporosis is a bacterial disease, withwhich does not appear cracks, stains, but there are small hummocky elevations of a darker color than the main part of the cortex. Over time, the number and size of the hillocks increase, affecting the core of the tree. Branches wither, the plant dies. It's worth running these diseases are apple trees, and their treatment after a while will not help save the garden.
Recommendations for gardeners
Want to get a good harvest from your siteapples? Then watch the condition of the trees so that they do not overtake the diseases of the apple tree. And their treatment is then not required. As a prevention of diseases, tree trunks need to be whitened in due time, cut out dry or damaged branches, and areas with dead cortex must necessarily be cut and burned. In addition, the affected areas after cleaning should be treated with a special solution (1 kg of clay, 2 kg of glue joinery, 1 kg of manure and 10 liters of water). Less will affect the disease of the apple tree, and their treatment will not be required if you will take care of your garden, doing everything in a timely manner.
