Control Pests and Diseases of Strawberry Plant

How To Control Pest and Disease of Strawberry Plant - Strawberries are one plant that thrives in cold climates are usually cultivated in the mountainous regions of relatively low temperature. These plants are also often attacked by pests or diseases for that we must control the growth of these plants. Different from pumpkin plant this plant do not need a rod or a place to grow.

Pest of Strawberry Plant

a. Aphids (Chaetosiphon fragaefolii)

Part of the attack: the lower surface of leaves, flower buds, young shoots or stems. Symptoms: shoots or leaves wrinkled, curly, sometimes inhibited the formation of leaves or fruit. Made from active prevention using insecticide abamectin or klorfenapir.

b. Tetranychus Sp

Part of the attack: leaves, stems, and fruit. Symptoms: The leaf spots of yellow, brown, curly leaves eventually fall off. Made from active prevention using insecticide abamectin or klorfenapir.

c. Flower weevil (Anthonomus rubi), root weevils (Othiorhychus rugosostriatus), stem weevil (O. Sulcatus)

Symptoms of attack: the powder form of flour. Prevention using insecticide active use or klorfenapir abamectin. used interchangeably.

Disease of Strawberry Plant

a. Verticillium wilt (Verticillium dahliae)
Part of the attack: from the roots, leaves, until the plant. Symptoms: the infected leaves at first yellow to brown, heavy attack will cause death in plants. Control: improving drainage, sanitation, gardens,

b. Ripe fruit rot / Ripe Fruit Rot (Colletotrichum fragariae Brook) Rhizopus Rot / spot Rhizopus (Rhizopus stolonifer)

Part of being attacked: fruit. Symptoms: RFR is typical only in the ripe fruit only with rotten fruit with pink spore masses. In the RS, fruit soft rot, watery, cloudy fluid when massaged out.

Control: destroy infected fruit, fix the drainage garden, mulching, crop rotation, early planting Fungicide mixed with manure that has been finished.

c. Root rot (Idriella Lunata, Ulmatum Pythium, Rhizoctonia solani)

Part of the attack: the roots of plants. Symptoms: Idriella cause the ends of the roots are black and rotten, while the rod limit Phytium resulting root rot at the soil surface is brown to black. While the fungus Rhizoctonia root rot resulting system. Control: remove and destroy infected plant weight, add lime to the soil, do crop rotation, drainage improvements the plant, give a fungicide with active Pyraclostrobin 250 EC.

d. Red pith (Phytophtora fragrariae)

Part of the attack: the roots of plants. Symptoms: stunted plants, leaves wilt not be refreshed even if the roots and base of the stem was observed that infected the heartwood will appear red. These diseases result in severe attacks on the poor drainage conditions and sour / low pH.

Control: improve drainage, liming the soil, crop rotation, use of healthy seeds and avoid mechanical injury to the maintenance, waste of heavily infected plants.

Those are some pests and diseases that often attack strawberry plant, pest and disease control needs to be done so that we cultivated strawberries will produce fruit with high quality and it will be very beneficial for you.