Remove mummified fruit from trees before winter

After leaf fall on apple trees and plums remain dried fruits. It is better to remove them before winter: they can retain pathogens of fruit rot, which in the spring again form spores and infect flowers and fruits.

Padalis with obvious rot is also not left under the tree and not folded into an ordinary cold compost pile.

Dried shoots and ulcers in the crown can also keep the infection. If the rot has already been in this season, in the spring, trees are especially carefully examined during flowering and after rains. Sanitary cleaning reduces the initial supply of infection, but does not replace pruning of affected tissues and other protective measures.