Diseases of the pear and the fight against them, photo

28.07.2015 Pear

pear diseases and methods of controlling themIf you are interested in pear diseases and the fight against them, photos of diseased trees and our descriptions will help you sort out what problems are with your pears and how to treat them. Of course, it is best to try to prevent diseases, or at least recognize them at the right time, then the treatment methods will be effective. If you start this process, then often the trees can no longer be saved. Moreover, young and weak prone to disease can be just like old trees.

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Pear Non-Infectious Diseases

Such diseases often occur due to improper care, inadequate nutrition, temperature fluctuations, sun and frost burns, inappropriate soil and the area on which the pears are planted. With insufficient nutrition of the soil, leaves can fall, the fruits can deform, the crop is scanty and so on. To avoid this, you need to fertilize the ground, carry out fertilizing as watering, and spray.

pear diseases

Often pears get sick from severe frosts (above 27 degrees). With a sun-frosty burn on the bulb, the bark can break, then in these places it becomes black, dies, parasites start there and the tree begins to die. It is necessary to identify damaged places in a timely manner, cut with a margin of a couple of centimeters and coat them with garden var.

In autumn, it is necessary to whiten the trees using copper sulphate with lime, adding clay, mullein, laundry soap, glue and Epin there. Such diseases are not transmitted to other trees, therefore, taking measures in time, you will protect your pears, and they will delight you with the harvest.

Infectious diseases

These are more dangerous problems that are easier to prevent than to deal with them later, especially if diseases are started. Any sucking insects, plus the wind, spread the infection throughout the garden, and then it will be difficult to stop the epidemic, which will poison all the trees and destroy the garden. Therefore, let's see what infections affect pears, and try to prevent them. And if you are late - to treat.
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Scab on a pear - how to fight?

scab

A common disease, insidious and dangerous, which is caused by the corresponding fungi. The reason may be cool weather, long rains, increased dampness, which just contributes to the development of different types of fungi. Also, the scab is quickly transmitted from trees to other individuals, if they are very closely planted. The leaves become brown, the fruits darken, crack, flowers are affected, the yield is reduced.

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How to fight we will: destroy the affected branches, treat the trees with fungicides. In autumn, collect all the foliage carefully, burn, as well, the affected parts of the tree. In the spring - treat the trees with 7% r-urea, also use Bordeaux liquid for prevention purposes - on branches and the ground around. Ideally, when buying seedlings, you need to take resistant varieties to such dirty tricks that you will not be tormented with pear treatment later.

Fruit rot

fruit rot

If your pears instead of juicy and tasty fruits began to give rotten and tasteless - you have settled manilliosis. Pears are covered with brown spots, do not fall from the branches, spreading the disease further.

How to stop the process: collect all burned fruits from branches and land, burn, treat the trees with Bordeaux liquid. Repeat in spring.

Stem rot

Cytosporosis, also called “stem rot”, often attacks weakened trees, resulting in red-brown ulcers, twigs begin to dry out, the bark dying, and this can even destroy the tree.

How to fight: remove the affected branches. Burn, cut the affected bark, treat the wounds first with copper sulfate, and then cover them with var. In the fall, whiten the trees, spray with Bordeaux liquid, and then repeat the process in the spring.

Black cancer

black cancer

If you notice red spots on your trees - this may be a sign of this insidious disease, also called “Anton fire”. The disease also causes black rot. The fruits are deformed, dry out, spots on the cortex progress. To prevent the infection from spreading to other trees, it is necessary to burn the fallen leaves, cut out the damaged bark, fill the wounds with copper sulfate or gloss over clay with mullein.

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To prevent this scourge from eating your fruits, use Agravertin, followed by Kinmix after 3 weeks, then after flowering you can treat it with Iskra, and you must burn the foliage in the fall. It also helps spraying with infusions of yarrow, chamomile, the drug "Karbofos".
If you feed trees, remove diseased branches and leaves, destroy them, whiten and spray the trees, they will answer you with a good harvest, and will please you for many years.

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