Methods of protection and treatment of peach from leaf curl

Prophylaxis

The causative agent of this disease, which can cause a lot of trouble for gardeners in the spring, is the so-called voiceless fungus. It becomes especially active in spring, while its spores penetrate into the cracks in the bark of trees and on the scales of leaves, after which you can observe the release of resin from them. When a disease occurs, the leaves become ugly and curl, and their color also fades.

If you do not carry out timely spraying, then even the death of shoots is possible. Most often, this disease can lie in wait for such peach varieties as Cornet, Earley Cornet, Armgold, in an average degree such varieties as Collins, Stark Delicious, Dixired can get sick. All others are considered more resistant to the onset of the disease.

Of course, drug treatment will always be the most effective of the control methods, but it is always better to carry out prophylaxis than to treat peach trees later. For these purposes, at the beginning of March, it is necessary to spray crops using a well-proven 1% solution of copper sulfate. After about 4 - 5 days, for better protection, it is necessary to do this spraying again.

For preventive treatment in order to avoid a dangerous disease, you can also use the well-known 3% Bordeaux liquid or one of the fungicides - "Raek", "Hom", "Skor" - which can be purchased today in a specialized store.

In autumn, experts advise pruning the affected trees and spraying them with copper sulfate.

Also, in order to prevent disease and protect the fruit tree, it is advised to give preference to dry areas of the garden well-lit by the sun for planting and growing peaches.  

Control methods

Of course, fighting the disease in the spring is not an easy task, but if you start timely comprehensive treatment, you can expect a good result. The first step is to carry out the procedure for pruning and burning affected leaves and shoots in May. It is recommended to do pruning for the first time during the growing season, and the second time before the spread of spores of the fungal disease. Before spraying a tree with special preparations, it is necessary to take into account the fact when exactly the infection occurred.

The fight against leaf curl after the flowering period involves protection by treating the plant with tank biological products - such as planriz, pentaphage, trichodermin. It is also recommended to use copper oxychloride and special fungicides for spraying in spring. Until the buds appear on the trees, urea, copper sulfate or lime milk can also be used along with these drugs. In the fall, experts advise spraying wood and soil in the area of ​​the stamping circle with any of the aforementioned agents, with the exception of fungicides.

For the treatment of the disease, for many years in a row, gardeners have widely used the method of processing peaches with a solution of 3% Bordeaux mixture. When spraying trees with this drug in the spring, it should be borne in mind that there will be a certain delay in the fruiting of the crop in comparison with the generally accepted terms. Excessive phytotoxicity is also possible, which will grow at the same time as the shoots. But the apparent degree of effectiveness of this method is much higher than all the possible negative consequences.

It is especially good to carry out processing with Bordeaux mixture in the event that a disease of the fruit crop has been observed for a couple of years now. The traditional folk remedy for combating curliness can be safely called ordinary clay. It is customary to use it together with lime, and it works as an adhesive, an adsorbent. The useful substances present in the composition of such a solution - sulfur, silicon, aluminum and others - also help to overcome the ailment. It is permissible to use clay for the treatment of peach trees in its pure form.

If the clay-lime mixture did not give the expected effect, and the use of the Bordeaux mixture for some reason is impossible, then modern preparations can be purchased for processing. These are delan, chorus, speed, which can be used both in combination and each separately.

As shown by all sorts of laboratory studies, this kind of new generation means will help to make the treatment of leaves from curl almost one hundred percent effective. In the fall, it is imperative to collect, compost or burn the leaves, as they partially remain infected.

Video "Peach Curl"

After watching the video, you will learn how to treat an ailment such as curliness and how to take preventive measures.