40+ Apple Tree Leaf Curl Treatment
Pics. The female lays its eggs on immature apple leaves during the spring. They weren't all that rosy, being more dark and looking like soot inside the curled lea.
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Note the white lines and the white spots on the leaves, showing that the larvae has tunneled. Treatments can be done by soil injection where by making for a safer and more efficient way to treat this pest. Diseases such as leaf curl (in peaches and nectarines), black spot (in apples and pears), bacterial blast (mainly in stone fruit) and botrytis treatment of more established trees with a chlorine bleach solution to essentially sterilise the tree can be effective in killing the bacteria causing the disease.
Rake under trees and destroy infected leaves to reduce the number of fungal spores available to start.
Both sides of the leaves and tree shoots will be covered with this powder. The picture on the left side shows my lemon tree leaf curling disease due to miner insect. My mott's pink apple leaves are very curled. The female lays its eggs on immature apple leaves during the spring.
