The plum tree is a fruit tree that is rather susceptible to disease. However, there are preventive solutions to prevent their occurrence. Plum disease: discover the natural treatments to eliminate them.
Moniliasis
Symptoms
a plum that rotted on tree moniliasis treatment fruits is riddled with mauve circles, then brown rot before mummifying. The flowers and young leaves wither, the bark reddens and cracks. This is moniliasis.
Prevention
Remember to leave 4-5m between each tree and prune your plum tree regularly to ventilate the crown. Choose a variety resistant to diseases.
Natural treatments
All affected areas should be cut to prevent the disease from spreading throughout the tree. Spray Bordeaux mixture every three weeks until this disease is eradicated.
The chancre
Symptoms
Is the trunk or branches of your plum tree marked with a brown stain accompanied by cracks or blisters? It is probably canker, a disease that affects many fruit trees. The stain spreads over the bark and a yellow gum may even leak from it.
Prevention
plum canker sap, which flows resin late summer, early fall, spray Bordeaux mixture over the entire subject.
Natural treatments
If a branch is affected, but the disease is not yet too extensive. You can then scrape the affected part to reach the level of healthy, non-necrotic wood. You will then apply a healing putty and Bordeaux mixture to your plum tree. If the branch is not salvageable, then it will have to be cut and burned. If it is the trunk that is affected, you will have to cut the tree down to prevent the disease from affecting other fruit trees.
The Sharka
Symptoms
The fruits are misshapen and have colorful, often rounded markings. Their taste is very sour; they are unfit for consumption. This disease affects plum trees (and other fruit trees) due to grafting or aphids.
Prevention
Take care to obtain healthy transplant subjects. To prevent the onset of this disease, preventive control of aphids. To do this, spray nettle manure which acts as a natural insecticide.
Natural treatments
No choice. You have to cut all the affected parts. If you spot the sharka, notify the chamber of agriculture in your department because only a professional can help you eradicate it. Besides, this disease is very contagious and really compromises the crops for professionals nearby.
Rust
Symptoms
Two fungi that are responsible for this disease: Tranzschelia pruni-spinosae or Tranzschelia discolor. They appear during humid and hot weather, such as spring rains. On the underside of the leaves, you can see brown pustules. On the spot, the leaves are riddled with orange-yellow spots. The wood has difficulty in lignification, the leaves fall off and the fruits are difficult to develop.
Prevention
Plum leaf plum rustTo prevent the onset of rust, consider spraying horsetail manure in the spring twice a month until mid-July.
Natural treatments
If you arrive too late and the disease is already present, remove all affected leaves, including those on the ground. Burn them to be sure to remove all the spores. Then treat with Bordeaux mixture every three weeks until the disease is eradicated.
The blister
Symptoms
He is responsible: Taphrina pruni. This fungus causes deformation of the fruits, which are tinged with white. Plums remain small and pitted, eventually falling off the tree. Cold and humidity are the causes of the onset of the disease.
Prevention
Spray horsetail manure in early spring, as this disease appears with the flowers. As soon as the petals have fallen, reapply this natural fungicide.
Natural treatments
Remove all affected fruit on the tree and the ground and treat with Bordeaux mixture.
