Buckwheat rust of currants: how to deal with the disease? Cause, Symptoms

Currant is a useful agricultural plant, berries of which are a storehouse of vitamins and amino acids. Pretty unpretentious bushes are ready to bear fruit practically in any year, regardless of the weather conditions and soil characteristics. However, if they are attacked by the disease, then the entire crop will be lost. A very widespread disease is the burritic rust of the currant. How to deal with this phenomenon, we will now disassemble in detail.

Diagnostics

Determine that your plantations are affected by this disease, it will not be difficult. If you see on the leaves of education, called pustules or pads, then this is nothing but a glassy rust of currants. How to deal with this ailment? First of all, it is necessary to prevent the spread of the disease to neighboring bushes, but more on this later. So, the brown pads on the leaves, if not taken in time, cracked. Mushrooms spill out of them, which infect everything around them. Yes, we have not yet said that the disease is caused by rust fungus.

How not to confuse with other diseases

Dark spots on the leaves are not a diagnosis, because they can talk about different problems, even about the banal lack of sufficient moisture. But there is nothing complicated here. The existence of red pads indicates the development of diseases. Then they merge, the leaves fall early. The viability of the fungus leads to the evaporation of moisture from the surface of the leaves, after which they dry up. If you see that there is rot on the branches, white or gray plaque, then this is another fungal disease. But we are interested in the glassy currant rust. "And how to deal with it?" - you ask. With the help of certain means, but more on this later.

The cause of the appearance of a dangerous ailment is the presence of weeds on your site. In particular, sedges. It is on her develop the pathogens of the disease by mid-summer. Then weeds reddish and turn black, and the wind carries spores to garden plants within a radius of 300 meters. Therefore it is important to regularly mow down all the grass, even if it grows along the fence and does not interfere much.

When to wait for the first appearance

The gardener needs to know that plants inseminated with spores of fungus can safely finish fruiting, and then leave for autumn rest without signs of disease. In this case, from early spring, the burritic rust of the currant begins to develop actively. How to fight? The appearance of the plant will begin to change around the beginning of June, but before that rust will have time to hit all the vegetative parts. Now the brown cushions begin to dry up and collapse, and the wind carries the controversy further.

What is dangerous goblet rust of currants

How to deal with this ailment can be understood only by familiarizing yourself with the pathogen itself. So, rust causes the death of leaves, and in the most neglected cases, other parts of plants. As a result, it will not be able to prepare for the winter and will freeze out at the first cold snap. Since the green part of plants is destroyed, they lose moisture, and the gain may be absent. If you do not take measures, then all land parts of the bush will gradually die, and the currant will not survive.

Methods of struggle

If the prophylaxis has not helped or if the weeds have been removed, and the nearest neighbors have not taken care of this, then it is necessary to begin treatment. The ideal option is to remove all affected leaves, and then burn. Processing is performed with modern fungicides. This is an ideal option, which will quickly eliminate the cause of the glassy rust of currant. How to deal with if specialized drugs are not available, we'll look at it just below.

The choice of funds on the market is quite large - these are antifungal preparations "Previkur", "Skor", "Fitosporin", "Topaz". They can immediately stop the development of the fungus. You can use tools that have copper in their composition. A simple example can be a Bordeaux liquid. It is important to observe the proportions. The increased content of active substances can adversely affect the culture.

Processing time

Of course, the best thing to do is to do it before your plants have a goby rust. How to deal with it, if the leaves have already begun to dry up? In principle, the same methods, but the treatment will be longer, and this year harvest will not be at all. So, the first spraying should be done before flowering, during the opening of the leaves. The second time should be repeated, when the buds begin to form. The third spraying occurs immediately after the end of flowering. For this, an ordinary garden sprayer is used. If the defeat is already very strong, then 10 days after the third, you can perform a fourth spraying.

Soil Care

In addition to spraying with fungicides, you need to properly care for your site so that the fungus does not find a fertile soil for itself. First, you need to fight sedge and drain the areas where it likes to grow. Secondly, it is necessary to loosen the soil at least twice a year and carefully dig it. Thirdly, it is important to drain the wet areas, then they will become uninteresting for sedge and weeds, which means there is less chance that the fungus will reappear.

The best currant varieties

To date, Russian selection is ready to offer you modern varieties that do not fear rust. In principle, these are all hybrids that are resistant to any fungal diseases. Among them:

• Katyusha;
• "Black veil";
• "Belarusian sweet";
• "Semiramid";
• "grace".

This list is not limited, it can be continued. If your site is in the lowland, where there is always excessive moisture, then use varieties that are not afraid of the glassy rust of currants. How to fight (the appearance of the affected plant really causes pity) with ailment, if, despite the variety, the bush is still sick? In this case, the usual, proven by the years means, which our grandmothers used, will be of great help.

How to fight folk remedies

The goby rust of the currant is very afraid of tobacco. Therefore, gardeners regularly use this plant to protect fruit bushes. In order to prepare a medicinal solution, it is necessary to take 2-3 liters of hot water, 200 g of tobacco dust and infuse the drug for three days. But that is not all. Gardeners are observational people, they experiment for years on their sites to find out which tool works best against particular misfortunes.

So, simultaneously with this you need to make an infusion of 1 cup cloves of garlic, filling them with hot water. After three days, take a 10-liter bucket, strain both solutions into it, add a tablespoon of liquid soap and a teaspoon of black or red pepper. Allow the solution to stand still for a day, then strain and use to spray the plants before flowering.

Duration of treatment

Unlike fungicides, home remedies are much slower. Therefore, it may take a number of procedures to completely get rid of the fungus. After spraying, you need to sprinkle the remaining cake after brewing around the bush and slightly prikopat. And two weeks later, make an infusion of onion husks and sprinkle them with bushes. This infusion will give plants strength and relieve stress. Experienced gardeners say that about two years had to perform these procedures in order to overcome the ailment. The following years showed that rust does not return. But prevention has to be done every year, not forgetting the removal of weeds and annual feeding.