Black apple carcinoma

Unfortunately, with all the favorite fruit tree apple-tree is susceptible to many diseases and pests. The most dangerous of them can be attributed and black apple carcinoma.

Black cancer disease

Black cancer is a fungal disease that affects various parts of the tree: fruits, leaves, bark of the trunk and branches. Black cancer looks like a black rotten plaque, appearing initially as small spots, which then increase in size over time. When the trunk is damaged, the bark becomes covered with a blackish-brownish, like a charred spot, where cracks then arise. As a result, the affected tree yields a weak crop, the fruits rot. The apple tree soon dies.

How to cure apple tree from black cancer?

If you find signs of black cancer, the tree should be cleaned from stains with a knife. Leaves and diseased branches are cut off, scorched. It is necessary to produce and treat black cancer on the trunk of an apple tree. The affected area of ​​the cortex is removed, deepening the cut by 1-2 cm in healthy areas of wood. Then such a "wound" is treated with a 2% solution of copper sulfate, after which it is carefully greased with a garden fume. This procedure is performed in the early spring, before the air warms up to +13 + 15 ° C.

To measures to combat black apple cancer can be attributed and spraying the entire tree with a 1% solution of copper sulfate in early spring. For the same purpose, a 3% Bordeaux mixture is also suitable. A good result is the treatment of the crown and trunk fungicides, for example, "HOM". Remember that you need to sprinkle and sprinkle on the ground.

Prevention of black apple carcinoma

The main preventive method against black cancers is early spring and autumn whitewash of apple tree trunks, spring sanitary trimming of branches , removal and burning of damaged trees, branches, fruits. In addition, we recommend planting apple varieties resistant to black cancer in your garden: Papirovka, Borovinka, Pepin saffron, Cinnamon striped, Jonathan, Idared, Lobo.