How nice to eat a ripe bulk apple, which grew on an apple tree in your own garden! True, sometimes garden trees are exposed to various diseases, which can not but affect their yield. Moreover, diseases such as black cancer can lead to death. We will tell you about the methods of treating black cancer on the apple tree.
How to treat apple from black cancer?
If a diseased apple tree is found, the first thing to do is to remove the affected leaves, fruits, branches and burn them. Further, the treatment of black cancer involves cleaning: the affected areas of the cortex on the trunk and large branches must be scraped with a sharp knife, deepening into healthy areas of the apple tree by 1-1.5 cm. The resulting "patient" lesions must be treated with the antiseptic that you have available : usual chemist's greens, 2% solution of copper sulfate. After that, for the treatment of black cancer on the trunk and large branches of apple trees, the wounds are greased with garden varnish or paint based on drying oil.
Special treatment will be needed for the rest of the tree, since they can be spores of the fungus that causes black cancer. First of all, it is necessary to treat the apple tree with an antiseptic. And the tree is not only sprayed, but also wiped, washed. Of the folk remedies, the soap solution, the solution of the mullein, gives good results. If such homemade recipes do not appeal to you, use chemicals. The solution is well handled solution of potassium permanganate (manganese), copper sulfate, Bordeaux mixture. If desired, try preparations from black cancer - fungicides that cope with the fungus. Not bad results in the fight against this disease shows "Krezoksim-methyl", "HOM", "Vitaras", "Fitosporin", "
Note that with mild to moderate lesions, the procedures described above can help to defeat this dangerous disease. But if the fungus overcame the apple tree to a large extent, most likely it will die.
To treatment of fruit trees from black cancer was effective, annual preventive procedures are recommended. First, it is important to sanitize apple-trees, removing diseased and diseased branches. Secondly, in the spring it is necessary to conduct whitewashing of all trees, lubricating not the trunk with lime, but also skeletal twigs.