Perhaps the most delicious and flavorful berries in our gardens, it - black currant. Unique, distinct smell and are berries, and leaves, and buds. It grows in the South and in the middle lane and Siberia. Shiny delicious fruit - a storehouse of vitamins, trace elements, volatile, essential amino acids.
She currants - not fussy, speaks good annual yield on non-labor-intensive care: crop, feed, but to pour in hot dry weather. But, unfortunately, a black currant - a tasty morsel for a unit pests.
bud mite
One of the most insidious and dangerous of them bud mite. To carry with him a successful bolbu, and not allow him to feel at ease, you need to know who he is and "what he's breathing."
bud mite - an insect with four legs, is so small that it can only see under magnification. As the name implies, the mite settles in the kidneys and lives plants, feeds its juices and can completely ruin the bush.
Determine the defeat of the bushes bud mite can be early spring. Upon the occurrence of positive temperature 5-8 ° C acarine active female lays eggs in the kidney, due to which the latter is greatly increased. here by bloated rounded kidneys and can identify the affected stems and bushes.
Larvae feeding in the kidneys and suck the juice can completely ruin the plant. 30-35 days after the egg larvae migrate to other, healthy shoots and bushes.
Measures to combat bud mite
- Inspect the bushes, cut and burn badly affected branches with rounded, like cabbage, kidney.
- Bud mite can not tolerate high temperatures, therefore, significantly reduce the activity of the females will "hot shower". In the early spring, it should be clear in calm weather pour currant bushes from a watering can with a spray of hot (80-85 C) water. It will not hurt the plant, and the majority of females and fungal pathogens die.
- 3. In the same period, before bud break and the occurrence of stable heat treatment can be carried out fire by the gas burner. Fast, non-stop, at a distance of 9-10 cm. Escape is not hurt, but samochki and aphids die.
- The mite does not like the smell of garlic as a preventive measure, well to land in the vicinity of these plants currant.
- chemical remedies can be used to currants bushes in the autumn, after the harvest: Nitrafen, phosphamide, Bi-58.
- In the spring can be treated bioakaritsidami currants, are preparations based on fungi and bacteria are safe for human: bitoksibatsillin, Boverin, Fitoverm.
When using chemical remedies should comply strictly with instructions for use and dosage preparations.
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