This disease decides the cultivation of blueberries in 2025!
This year’s season may not be the most successful. A serious bacterial disease is rolling before cultivation throughout Poland, which devoids whole bushes. Bacterial Blueberry Cancer, because we are talking about it, is one of the most serious diseases. It leads to dying of shoots and even destroying whole bushes. It is particularly severe for young plants.
Bacterial Blueberry Cancer is one of the biggest challenges of modern gardening. Pseudomonas Syringe bacteria are responsible for the disease. They attack blueberry shrubs through the natural holes of plants or in places of feeding of insects. High humidity makes the disease progress very quickly. This year’s cold spring made the Blueberry battery cancer an ideal environment for development.
Symptoms of bacterial blueberry cancer. Pay attention to this
. Dark green, watery spots are noticeable on the shoots of the plants, which darken over time. In the next stage of the disease, elliptical changes around the leaf packages appear. Over time, they combine to form a characteristic mosaic. The disease, spreading, leads to a complete death of shrubs. It attacks virtually all genres of blueberries, but it is most often observed on ‘Draper’, ‘Duke’, ‘Calypso’ and ‘Liberty’.
How to protect American blueberries from bacterial cancer?
The worst news is that no effective form of protection against this disease has been registered so far. According to experts from the jagodnik.pl portal, at the moment there are no chemical preparations that fight this type of bacteria. This does not mean, however, that in the fight against the disease we are helpless and we can only watch the shrubs die. In the initial stages of developing the disease, spraying and preparations containing copper, as well as some fluids based on hydrogen peroxide may be effective. Prevention and reduction of the risk of the disease are very important. .
