Powdery mildew on gooseberries - measures to combat plant disease

The most malicious and widespread disease powdery mildew is considered. It can harm all fruiting shrubs and their crops at once, if you do not take any measures to get rid of it, then after a couple of years this representative of the herbaceous culture will die. Gives the situation a negative connotation and the fact that this disease spreads with lightning speed and develops faster than other diseases. This article will discuss a disease such as powdery mildew and how to get rid of it and prevent its occurrence.

Signs of illness

Usually powdery mildew attacks fruiting shrubs in the last half of the third spring month - the first half of the beginning of the summer season and shows itself in all its glory by the presence of these symptoms:

- foliage acquires a loose layer of snow-white bloom, as well as branches and young ovaries on berries.

- after some time, the plaque begins to become denser in structure, its snow-white color is replaced by a brown color.

- branches infected with powdery mildew bend and dry up after a while.

- foliage folds over time, its growth and development are completed, and they crumble at the slightest touch.

- berries, covered with a shell, stop growing and development, do not reach full ripeness, begin to melt and fall from the shoots, still in a green color.

If the methods of treatment are ignored, then the fruits will be lost, the young growth will be completed, and after two to three years the fruiting bush will die.

How to get rid of powdery mildew?

Powdery mildew on this representative of the herbaceous culture leads to serious injuries, however, only if you ignore the methods of gooseberry treatment. To be honest, getting rid of powdery mildew will not be difficult for you. You can use both chemical preparations from any store in the household chemicals department, and methods of treatment that came from the common people.

These methods will bring effective results much faster if used at the same time.

If you do not have a desire to purchase chemicals in a regular store in the household chemicals department, then it is possible to use some method from the common people to treat powdery mildew. There are a huge number of such methods. However, if the disease is in serious condition, then you cannot cope without chemicals.

There are also chemical preparations that will need to be used only once, but the methods of treating powdery mildew from the common people need to be done two to four times. In the presence of particularly hot days, it is very difficult to carry out preventive procedures.

Chemicals

The most famous drug for powdery mildew is a solution of copper sulfate. It is made according to the instructions given below: seventy-five grams of crushed laundry soap is placed in five liters of water, room temperature, twenty grams of copper sulphate is carefully added to the resulting mixture. The resulting solution should turn out to be blue in color and without lumps.

We treat fruiting shrubs with a newly made self-made product before the flowering process begins. If you missed this time, then wait for the formation of an ovary on the berries and then process the gooseberry bushes.

The most effective chemical agents include It must be diluted to the desired consistency, following the instructions, and used to treat fruiting shrubs after the flowering process is complete.

When the disease starts, then it is better to arrange the use of chemicals twice - not only after the completion of the flowering process, but also before its onset. But, following the reviews of summer residents who have already purchased a drug called topaz and tried it, they say that it will be enough to apply it once.

A drug called hom is the most vigorous chemical drug. It is considered an alternative to the well-known Bordeaux liquid. It is necessary to make zero point four tenths of a percent solution of homa, for which forty grams of homa and ten liters of water are needed. The newly obtained preparation is used once before the beginning of the flowering process.

Drugs from the people

For the manufacture of the first drug, one tablespoon of soda, seventy-five grams of household soap and fifteen liters of water are useful. First you need to make a solution of laundry soap and water, then pour in a tablespoon of baking soda. With the prepared preparation, moisten the soil at the roots, as well as foliage, using a watering can with a sieve attachment. The procedure is arranged once or twice with a time interval of a week.

Dissolve one and a half kilograms of ash in five liters of boiling water and leave it alone for one day. Pass the drug through several layers of gauze and use it to process fruiting shrubs. We apply the product two times - before the beginning of the flowering process and after its completion. You can use the drug after the completion of the flowering process twice. The time interval between procedures should be a week.

Mix two hundred grams of urine with five liters of water. With the prepared preparation, the processing procedure is carried out immediately after the completion of the flowering process. The procedure can be arranged three to four times with a time interval of seven days.

At the first signs of infection, it is advised to apply a solution of potassium permanganate to the fruiting shrub. To make the drug, you will need a bucket of water and one and a half grams of potassium permanganate, mix.

Dilute one part of fresh mullein with three parts of water and leave it alone for four days. Dilute the prepared preparation with 1 part of fresh mullein and 3 parts of pure water, apply on a fruit-bearing shrub. Application must be careful, apply the solution on a broom.

As mentioned above, powdery mildew is often found on plants. The most persistent gooseberry varieties are:

- "Beryl".

- "Krasnoslavyansky".

— «Gingerbread man».

— «Commander».

- "Russian yellow".

- "Salute".

- "Ural grapes".

- "Ural Emerald".

- "Ural Besshipny"