Whitewashing of trunks of fruit-trees

Need of application of autumn and early-spring whitewashing of trees locates in a note.

Whitewashing of trunks and the bases of the main branches of fruit-trees is necessary, first of all, for bark protection from solar burns during the early-spring period

Whitewashing of trunks and the bases of the main branches of fruit-trees is necessary, first of all, for bark protection from solar burns during the early-spring period. It is better to lead it late autumn – after a leaf fall or wounds in the spring – in February beginning of March. Whitewashing carry out to dry clear warm weather. At first carefully osmatri­vayut trees on existence of wounds also grew dull. The found wounds smooth out a scraper from the died-off bark to live drevesi­ny and at once disinfect 1 % solution copper kupo­rosa and cover with oil paint. Now it is possible pri­stupat to whitewashing. Limy milk prepare so: 2 kg of a neyogasheny lime gradually plant in 10 l of water. As the considerable part of particles of a lime isn’t dissolved and na­xoditsya in a suspension, gradually settling on a capacity bottom, at the moment of whitewashing a mix periodically vzbal­tyvayut.

If whitewashing carry out a sprayer, apply a tip with rather big openings. Rayostvor previously well filter, that isklyu­chit a contamination of openings of a spray. Thanks to an oprysyokivatel it is possible to cover with a layer of a lime and smaller branches, but the consumption of working solution at such way of a nayoneseniye considerably increases. That whitewashing better and more long remained on trees, to limy milk "prilipatel" add: on 10 l of solution of 1 kg of clay or 100-200 g of paste.

Release of trees from the died-off bark and posleduyuyoshchy whitewashing of trunks and branches, especially in autumn pe­riod, allow to reduce considerably density of wintering wreckers, depriving of them shelters under a bark and in it tre­shhinax.

Let’s note that continuous processing of trees by limy milk in the early spring (before blooming of kidneys) zaderzhi­vaet blooming of leaves and flower kidneys almost on ne­delyu that allows to leave from damage late zamo­rozkami dismissed to a flower.

(On magazine materials Protection and quarantine of plants).