Rust on gooseberries

A disease such as rust on gooseberries is the most dangerous and widespread, just like powdery mildew... They affect only shrubs that bear fruit, but are formed from fungal spores. Pathogenic fungi harm the tissues of any part of the herbaceous culture, for example, foliage, stems, shoots, fruits, ovaries and inflorescences.

Rust on gooseberries: photo of the disease

Why did rust appear on gooseberries and what contributed to this?

Some types of pathogenic rust fungi grow on one representative of the herbaceous culture; for the life of other varieties of diseases, a temporary representative of the herbaceous culture is needed - the owner. Most species of pathogenic fungi survive the winter season in the left pile of autumn leaves.

With the arrival of the spring season, these pathogenic fungi create spores, which are carried over a great distance by the winds, and then intensively infect healthy herbaceous crops of any variety. An accelerated infection process occurs when several factors combine:

• Very high level of moisture in the air.
• The air temperature is very high.

Rust on gooseberries: photo of the disease

Usually, gooseberry shrubs become infested plants due to two groups of pathogenic fungi:

• Columnar rust.
• Gooseberry gooseberry rust.

The most common type of pathogenic fungi is the gooseberry gooseberry rust group. Infected herbaceous crops develop reddish streaks with spore pads that form a shape that resembles small glasses when opened.

For this pathogenic fungus, infecting herbaceous crops that bear fruit, in the form of a temporary plant - the owner needs sedge. At the beginning of the spring season, on this plant (sedge), spores of the rust fungus ("editsii") are formed, which after a while are spread by strong gusts of wind or parasites - insects, remaining on gooseberry bushes, grasses, lawns, weed foliage.

On the front side of the leaf, editsiospores develop rapidly during the entire summer season and in the same place they endure the entire winter season - in brown pads. In the spring season, the entire process of defeat is resumed in the same way.

How do you know if a gooseberry has been infected with rust?

Rust on gooseberries: photo of the disease

After settling on gooseberry bushes, spores of pathogenic fungi begin to germinate, forming rust stains on foliage and fruits. What happens next to infected herbaceous crops:

• Rust-infected gooseberries develop yellow streaks.
• Rust spots on gooseberries grow in edition (the process of inflation, filled with spores of pathogenic fungi), evenly replacing the color in the process of its growth from yellowish to red, orange, brown.
• Rust-infected gooseberry foliage changes shape and size, dries up much earlier and falls to the soil.
• The berries are not fully formed, unripe, they dry out and quickly fall off the branches of the gooseberry bush.
• After some time, the gooseberry bush dies.

Rust on gooseberries: how to fight?

Methods for dealing with diseases such as gooseberry rust involve a set of methods for using the correct care methods and the necessary regular application of fungicidal preparations with a contact and systemic effect.

Preventive methods to get rid of rust on gooseberries:

• Careful selection of gooseberry varieties with a high level of resistance to various diseases and insects - parasites.
• Careful selection of the site for the further growth of gooseberry bush, the main thing is that sedge does not grow nearby.
• Regular pulling up of grown sedge bushes.
• Preventive methods (three times) for using the solution on an infected representative of the herb, for example, treatment with Bordeaux liquid at the beginning of the spring season before foliage formation, during the period of bud formation and at the end of the flowering process.
• Fertilizing the soil, the composition should contain an increased content of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus.
• Acute soil moistening, make sure that moisture does not get on the foliage.
• Timely procedure for collecting fallen leaves and then burning them.

If rust forms on gooseberries, it is worth immediately using a fungicidal agent on a representative of herbaceous crops, for example, abiga - peak, bayleton, Bordeaux liquid, topaz and hom.

When using the drug on a rainy day, it is recommended to use the drug based on vitriol of copper and green soap. It is necessary to take four hundred grams of green soap and twenty-five grams of copper sulfate per ten liters of clean water. Green soap will help to strengthen the fungicide on the foliage of the gooseberry bush, even in very heavy rain.

Shoots and foliage with very large infested areas with rusty spots should be removed and then burned.

Rust on gooseberries: video about the disease

What chemicals should you buy to fight rust on gooseberries?

The most well-known and readily available remedies for treating diseases such as gooseberry rust include fungicides with enormous claims.

Contact-acting fungicides:

• Suspension water abiga - peak.

The main effective component is copper oxychloride. This solution is made with a small volume of water, then slowly bring the volume up to ten liters. The application process is arranged in two stages with a time interval of twenty days.

• Bordeaux mixture in the form of a water-soluble powder.

The main active ingredients are calcium hydroxide and copper sulfate. Soluble powders are diluted in different containers or any other containers for one fourth of the liquid, then water is added and brought to the required volume. A suspension of potassium hydroxide is poured into the resulting preparation of copper sulfate. Stir the solutions regularly with a wooden spatula.

This drug has no shelf life, it should be used immediately. To use this drug on gooseberry shrubs to get rid of rusty spots should be arranged three times at intervals of twenty-five days.

• Copper sulfate powder soluble in water.

Roughly speaking, it is copper sulfate. The drug is placed in not hot water with a small volume. Then bring the volume to the desired level. Typically, the drug is spent fifty grams per five liters of liquid. Apply the freshly made preparation once to the gooseberry bush during the spring season, until foliage forms.

Systemic fungicides:

• Bayleton powder to be wetted

The active ingredient is triadimefon. To wet this drug from rusty spots costs ten grams of ten liters of liquid according to the scheme. Initially, the powder is placed in this volume of water, and then the water is added. The solution starts working after two to four hours.The drug lasts two to four weeks.

• Topaz emulsion

The active ingredient is penconazole. One tablet fits in ten liters of liquid. The drug is used immediately after manufacture. On average, it is used four times within three months, and the time interval is three weeks.

Contact systemic fungicides:

• Home anti-rust powder on gooseberries

The main component is copper oxide. To make this drug, you will need water. Do not forget to regularly stir the solution with a wooden spatula, while adding the required amount of water to bring the required volume. Typically, ten liters of water takes forty grams of solution. Gooseberry bushes infected with rusty spots are processed twice, the first time before the flowering process, and the second after its completion.

With constant preventive procedures, the instant finding of an infected bush site and timely procedures for using these drugs to combat rust on gooseberries, you will succeed.