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Pear tree disease
Petew
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Can someone help? I have a problem with my pear tree. AS you can see fro the images it is a serious problem. I have sprayed with a fungiside ( twice now) the problem seems to be getting worse and the fruit is rotting and falling off. Do I need to chop it down?
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Nothing to be too concerned about.
There are no treatments available in the UK.
It won't harm your tree and the pears are fine to eat.
The spores arrive on pears in the spring and cause the effects in your pics.
When the leaves fall, the spores overwinter on junipers and return to the pear trees when they produce leaves.
I have 4 pears and one or more get it every year.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I guess you're making your own (Bordeaux Mixture) or don't live in UK as all copper-based fungicides are banned in the UK.
The times to use it are February and November - when the spores are on the move.
I don't bother as it doesn't really do any damage to the tree or fruit.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
The rules must have changed over the past few years - last I was aware it was banned.
Maybe I'll give mine a spray too
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's not cheap tho.
I may get the ingredients - copper sulphate and slaked lime and make my own.
There are plenty of recipes for Bordeaux Mixture online.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.