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To control Peach Leaf Curl, treat Peach and Nectarine trees with a fungicide in the fall after leaves have dropped. In the past, the disease could be successfully treated with either lime-sulfur fungicide or a fixed copper fungicide with a copper compound containing at least 50 percent copper.
5 sty 2024 · Peach leaf curl is not difficult to control. A single fungicide (copper or chlorothalonil) application made in the fall after leaves have dropped or in spring before bud swell will control the disease.
27 lip 2021 · Controlling peach leaf curl with fungicides is the only way to prevent this disease. So what are the most effective fungicides for peach leaf curl? The safest and most effective fungicides available to home gardeners are fixed copper products. These may be listed as metallic copper equivalent (MCE) on product labels. The higher the MCE, the ...
Avoid over-feeding with nitrogen fertiliser. Discover how to identify and tackle fungus-caused peach leaf curl on fruit trees, including organic solutions, with help from Alan Titchmarsh and BBC Gardeners' World Magazine.
Apply fungicide sprays: Apply copper fungicide sprays in the fall before bud break and again in the spring before bud swell. Use protective sprays: Apply protective fungicide sprays in the fall and winter to protect the tree from infection.
9 gru 2021 · The most effective method to treat peach leaf curl is by applying a copper fungicide after leaf drop in the fall. Since the spores survive winter by staying dormant on the tree’s trunk and branches until spring, spraying the entire surface of the tree in the fall has the highest rate of success.
Peach leaf curl is a disease caused by the fungus Taphrina deformans. Infections lead to severe distortion of the leaves soon after leaf burst in spring. Taphrina deformans infects peaches and nectarines, also almonds and occasionally apricots and ornamental Prunus.
