Appeared on currants pests can cause damage even high-yielding crop varieties, and lead to the death of the plant. List of parasitic insects berry is extensive, the life cycle is long, therefore, must fight with them continuously. How to win currant pests, may prompt growers have experienced parasiticides both chemical and folk remedies.
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Fighting gallic aphids
Gallic defeat aphids and black currant golden exposed to a lesser degree than other types. Most often, avoid them because of the coarser leaf plates, a parasite "clears" at the other grades. The appearance of insects indicate warped, uneven, lost their natural color leaves. The parasite sucking juices from the young shoots of the plant until mid-season. He can then leave the bush, having moved on the grass with a delicate foliage, but the danger lies in the fact that by the autumn aphids return to lay their eggs.
Another threat to horticultural crops is that the parasites - vectors of viral diseases. The result of their life are hitting currant fungal and bacterial diseases.
Gallic combating aphid folk remedies often result, for example, spraying abundantly shoots and foliage (especially the rear side) with a solution of baking soda (3 tbsp. l. sodium bicarbonate in 10 liters water). Next spring, the plants are irrigated decoction of chamomile. Repeated treatment is carried out with a soap solution (300 g detergent per 10 liters of water).
Many gardeners have long used method consists in the fact that the branches of currant pour over boiling water. It can completely rid it of deferred aphid eggs. Similarly, the method should be used only until the foliage of the bushes, otherwise it will get burned.
Throughout the growing period can be applied against insects tobacco infusion. plant processing is carried out every 5-6 days, excluding the flowering currant. Spraying is stopped for 2 days before harvest. The infusion is prepared as follows:
- 300g of tobacco dust poured 10 liters of water;
- the mixture is brought to a boil;
- container tightly closed and left in a dark room;
- 3 days infusion is filtered;
- dissolved therein 100 g of an antibacterial soap.
Tobacco dust, you can replace the marigolds. To prepare you will need about ½ kg of flowers.
Chemical preparations against aphids gallic are effective, but applying them should strictly adhere to the instructions. Treatment of industrial facilities is carried out in case of heavy defeats plant pests. The next season, then sprayed with currants in the period of bud burst, and after harvest. Among the chemicals are effective:
- Proteus;
- Calypso;
- aktellik;
- Vofatoks.
Some drugs can be used in the interim, but not at the stage of flowering currant.
Nitrafen recommended treatment for spring bushes and tree trunks, but it has the properties of the herbicide, so chemical spraying is carried out before bud swell. The drug was diluted at a ratio of 4 ml to 10 liters of water. Bushes treated Nitrafenom and after the growing season.
pest control may not work without preventive measures. For planting currants should choose a well-lit place. Away from her to keep peppermint, lavender, oregano, thyme, sage, and Stachys, where gallic aphids readily inhabits. The soil under the bushes need regular loosen, remove weeds and dig.
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