Gooseberries: diseases and their treatment

On the territory of our country, gooseberry is very popular. Diseases, unfortunately, do not bypass it, and to get a good harvest, you need to take care of eliminating this scourge.

The main types of diseases

All diseases of these garden bushes can be conditionally divided into two types: verticillium drying and withering of branches and shoots and various spotting. Let us consider them in more detail.

How does the verticillium wilt and the drying of gooseberries affect? Diseases of this kind affect the branches and leaves of the bushes. In the first case, foliage wilting is observed, which at the same time acquires a yellow color. It does not fall off the branches, but remains attached to them. The second name of gooseberry disease speaks for itself. Branches and shoots of bushes dry out, cracks appear on the cortex, between which black points are visible - the pathogens of the disease.

As already mentioned, various gooseberry patches are also striking. Diseases of this type can relate to one of five types of pathogens:

1. Spot black, or alternaria - on the leaves of the bushes appear gray-black spots with a velvety touch of olive color relatively large.

2. Brown spot - the appearance on the leaves of brown specks with a black coating of a small size.

3. Spotted askochitotic - patches of light gray or white, around each of which there is a brown border, rounded, sometimes with black pointlike pycnidia.

4. Spotted white (septoriosis) - the appearance on the foliage of bushes of small angular or round spots of brown color around which there is a red-brown border. With the passage of time these spots become lighter, but the fringe remains all the same bright.

5. Anthracnose spotting - can appear not only on foliage, but also on branches and petioles. It is a small impressed rounded spots of dark brown color.

It should be highlighted and some more points concerning the spots that gooseberry suffer from. Diseases of this kind have characteristic features: spots, sporulation and pads. They are all located on the top of the leaves. However, if there are bright spots on top, and below there are pads of sporulation of orange color, then this is rust. And it is quite interesting.

Other diseases

If the sedge grows near the bushes, goby rust may appear on the gooseberry, if Siberian cedar or Weymutov pine, then columnar rust. Thanks to this neighborhood, the causative agent of the disease has the opportunity to overwinter on sedge or pine, and in the spring to infect young leaves of gooseberries.

Sometimes on gooseberries you can see a thin film of black color, it is nothing but a disease called black. Another known ailment is a spherote, also called powdery mildew. It is a touch on gooseberry. If the plant is severely affected by this disease, desiccation occurs on young shoots in the upper part, but the pathogen undergoes wintering.

All the diseases listed above are mushroom, but they are found in bushes and viral diseases. These include fringing veins. The plant has a pale yellow fringe on the first and second order of the veins. In addition, chlorosis occurs on the leaves, after which they quickly lose their shape and become wrinkled.

Fighting diseases

Drugs used to combat various diseases of gooseberry, not so much. This copper sulfate, which helps get rid of septoriosis and other types of spotting, cumulus rescues from powdery mildew, anthracnose and ascochitis, and also the Bordeaux mixture - from rust, septoria and anthracnose.

Some gardeners try to use such drugs as "Topaz" and "Fundazol" to fight diseases of gooseberries. This solution is incorrect, since these drugs can only be used to treat black currants. However, if there is a whole gooseberry nursery on the site, then the use of Fundazol can be used to get rid of the verticillium wilt of the gooseberry bushes.