How to treat Apple trees

If you are a caring gardener, it means that you examine your landing regularly and seasonally. Then in time you can notice on Apple trees this disease, as the fungus is a polypore, which grows usually in the hollows of trees. Some gardeners believe that this growth protects the Apple, not allowing to expand the hollow, but this is absolutely wrong. The fungus grows, causing destruction of the wood and sucking the juice out of the core. While this growth alone, the tree can still be saved.

How to treat Apple trees
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You will need

knife, axe, handsaw or chainsaw;
- a solution of copper sulfate;
- garden options;
- mullein and clay;
- nigral, resin, ash, and wax;
- hard brush;

Instruction

Remove the mushroom. If he already has woody, take a big knife, hacksaw, axe or even a chainsaw. Have to demolish and healthy wood, but the tinder should be removed completely, to bare.

Clean the wound with a knife or scraper to healthy wood to make a relatively smooth and level surface.

Disinfect the wound. To do this, take a 5-percent solution of copper sulfate or creosote, and clean the hole. Then carefully apply the place. Can make it oil paint or garden pitch. And can take nigral, resin, ash and wax in the ratio 10:6:3:1, mix and cover the wound.

There is another (old) version of the wound treatment. Knead the putty with fresh mullein and clay, taking components in equal parts. Give everything a good stir. 5 liters of a mixture (half a bucket), add 0.5 liters of the prepared solution of copper sulphate (3%). RUB the damaged area with the mixture.

Can you handle the means which has prepared for putty wounds, all the plots of the tree – the trunk and branches (only first dilute it with water, the excess thickness is not required). The fact that you might not notice immediately spread of the fungus-polypore around the sapling, and such preventive measures will warn its germination.

However, just apply the crust is not enough. You must first prepare the surface. To do this, take a stiff brush (if the tree is old, and the bark on it is thick, you can use a metal brush or even a piece of mesh, netting) and clean off the trunk and branches of old bark (without fanaticism, only the top, as if dead, layer). After that, you can continue processing.

Don't forget after all the work to shovel a rake from under the old Apple-tree bark, and fragments of the fungus-tinder and burned at the stake. This needs to be done in order to destroy the cocoons and eggs of various pests, as well as the hyphae (cells) of the fungus.

Note

There are several varieties of mushrooms-tinder. Depending on species they can be white, brown or brown, and striped, stains, hard, fluffy, dry, mucous, etc. of Measures with all the same.

Useful advice

Experienced growers say that if the mushroom-tinder was a great size, to get rid of it will only be for a while. The fact that the hyphae of white rot fungus have the ability to penetrate deeply into the wood, making it almost impossible to rescue Apple. It will gradually fade away, first by reducing the yield, then becoming crooked, covered hummocks and hollows. Therefore, even if the operation to remove the fungus is successful, it is necessary to think about replacement trees.

In the future, take good care of fruit trees – protect them from mechanical damage, scrape rotten bark, sealed the holes and cracks.

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