Cherry pest protection - processing

Cherry trees are a tasty morsel for many parasites. Cherry pests affect all parts of the plant, the trunk, foliage and the fruits themselves suffer. So that the stone fruit does not die completely and can delight you with fruits in the future, it is necessary to carry out special treatments. And if you want to know how to treat pests from cherries, when and how to deal with them, check out this article.

Cherry processing rules

In order for the cherries to grow healthy and bear full fruit, they need to be sprayed correctly and regularly throughout the year.

When to do processing

Spring spraying is carried out to preserve flowers and emerging ovaries. In order to avoid burns of the bark and leaves, it is recommended to carry it out in early spring, while the buds are still sleeping and active sap flow has not begun. Most often, a urea solution is used (concentration: 700 g of the drug per 10 liters of water), spraying both the tree itself and the soil under it. Once a month, you can use biological products - Fitoverm, Akarin, Zdorovy Sad.

Gardening in the fall is, first of all, prevention, aimed at destroying the bulk of parasites, and also preventing the emergence and spread of infectious and viral diseases. Autumn processing includes several stages:

• after all the foliage from the cherry has fallen off, the diseased and deformed branches are pruned. Places of cuts must be covered with a garden varnish;
• if there are cracks on the tree, from which gum is released, it is also necessary to cover them up;
• fallen leaves, branches cut by you, should be collected and destroyed;
• As soon as the first frosts pass, the garden must be treated with a 5% urea solution. This highly concentrated fertilizer can destroy all kinds of pests and pathogens that cause fungal and infectious diseases. It is necessary to spray both the trunks and the crowns.

What trees are treated with

In early spring, the following drugs are used:

• copper sulfate. To prepare the solution, you need to dilute 100 g of fertilizer in 10 liters of water.
• 3% Bordeaux mixture, diluted in 10 liters of water.
• inkstone. To prepare an active solution, it is necessary to dilute 300 g of fertilizer in 10 liters of water.

In autumn, experienced gardeners use the ancient folk method, spraying the garden with diesel fuel. Before use, it must be diluted in water so as not to cause burns during processing.

Urea is also used (concentration: 700 g of fertilizer per 10 liters of water). Spraying the finished solution should be very fine.

Remember that in the fall, all spraying must be completed before the first frost.

Cherry pests

The plant, like most fruiting ones, has a lot of enemies that destroy or damage the ovaries, leaves, fruits and bark. Consider the most dangerous parasites.

Weevil

This type of pest (also called cherry trubbery) is widespread everywhere. He is the first to harm the kidneys that have not yet awakened. In the process of flowering, the tree attacks flowers, young leaves and ovaries. If the weevil is not removed in a timely manner, yield loss is guaranteed in most cases.

Ways to deal with a pipe-runner includes several stages.With the arrival of autumn, remove the old, exfoliated bark from the tree, and process the cleaned places with lime. Be sure to burn the bark removed in this way and all the fallen leaves. Dig up the soil around the roots. It is in the root soil that the bulk of weevils are located for wintering. Don't miss the ripening period of the kidneys. At this point, you can get rid of a large number of weevils. To do this, you just need to gently shake them off the swollen buds onto a prepared sheet.

In the fight against parasites, insecticides are actively used. For maximum effect, it is recommended to carry out the treatment immediately after flowering.

They also use such a popular method as spraying with a concentrated 10% karbofos (70 g of a substance per 10-liter bucket of water) or a 10% mixture of trichlorometaphos-3 (70 g of a substance per 10-liter bucket of water). Spraying is carried out at weekly intervals.

Spraying a solution of field chamomile is also a good way to get rid of the pest. To do this, you need to pour 150 g of chamomile flowers with 15 liters of water. The resulting solution is infused for a day, then filtered and 60 g of ordinary laundry soap is added.

Slimy sawfly

If you find larvae on the leaves that resemble leeches in their appearance, you should know that this is a slimy sawfly. It damages only the upper side of the foliage (epidermis), and does not touch the lower skin and veins of the leaf. The leaves damaged by the sawfly dry out quickly, young shoots do not ripen, and the fruits crumble prematurely.

In order to prevent the appearance of the pest, it is necessary to do the autumn digging of the soil. In the summer, loosening of the soil is carried out in the near-trunk circles of cherries. To combat the sawfly, drugs such as "Fufanon" or "Kemifos" are used. To prepare active solutions, 10 ml of active substances must be dissolved in 10 liters of water. But remember, they start processing only if the pest has infected more than 10% of the plant's foliage. If less, then no chemical treatment is used, since the number of parasites will not affect the formation and maturation of the berry crop.

Leaf aphid

This pest is a small larva that is black or green in color. It affects leaves and young growths. She actively sucks tissue juice from the foliage. For this reason, the leaves begin to slow down their growth, gradually lose moisture, dry out and curl into a tube.

For the fight, an infusion of tobacco is used, to which laundry soap is added. The tool is able to restrict the movement of the parasite. Fitoverm is also effective (1 liter of water will require 2 ml of the drug), Inta-Vir, to prepare a solution, add 1 tablet of the drug to 10 liters of water.

Be aware that overuse of nitrogen-containing fertilizers can cause aphids to overproduce. But an excess of potassium and phosphorus-containing fertilizers can reduce the rate of reproduction of the parasite. Therefore, feed according to the needs of the fruit tree.

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Hawthorn butterfly

This white butterfly is very similar to the cabbage. She actively eats buds and foliage. And as a result, the branches of the tree become bare. Usually in winter, right there, in the trees, it is hibernating in nests. It is advisable to collect and destroy them. Spraying against hawthorn begins before young buds bloom. Both chemical (Aktellik, Ambush) and biological products are used. Spraying is carried out twice: in spring and at the end of August.

Plum moth

This pest is a large light brown butterfly. She lays her eggs in the still unripe fruit. The hatched caterpillars begin to actively and massively eat the fruits and, as a result, worm cherries and spoiled crops. If you find clutches of moth eggs, treat with carbophosphate or benzophosphate.

Cherry fly

It looks like an ordinary housefly, it differs only in its smaller size. It feeds on medium and late varieties of cherries. It can damage up to 30% of cherry fruits. As soon as you find that depressions or softening have appeared on the fruit, this is the "work" of the cherry fly. The larvae of this parasite eat late varieties of cherries. For the fight use such pesticides as "Diazinon", "Dimetoat", "Spinosad".

Goldtail

This pest butterfly also has another name - Golden Silkworm. On the trail of damage to the foliage, it resembles the damage left by the hawthorn. Caterpillars that emerge from eggs laid by butterflies feed on foliage. Damaged, skeletonized leaves are wrapped in cobwebs and firmly attached to branches, where caterpillars hibernate. With the arrival of spring, they crawl out of the nests and damage young buds.

If foliage is found in the web, it is necessary to cut them off and destroy them. Sprayed with 0.3% karbofos solution.

Having found parasites in your garden, remember - the site needs care and help in the fight against parasites. Treat the garden, but remember the timing of it. After all, untimely spraying will not bring the expected results. Also, do not use multiple chemicals at the same time. Fight only those pests that were found in your garden a year ago or this season. Do not use spraying "for safety reasons", "just in case." During the flowering period, try not to resort to chemical treatment of the tree - this can lead to the death of bees, the plant will remain unpolished, which will lead to loss of yield.