Five key points of scraping pear trees in winter to scrape off diseases and insect pests to ensure healthy growth

The peasant proverb says, "if you want to eat a good pear, shave the bark in winter." Scraping perennial pear trees in winter can effectively eradicate scab, ring rot, dry rot, anthracnose and other pests and eggs in the old warped pear bark, as well as insect pests and eggs, such as small insectivores, pear wood lice, yellow pink insects and insect eggs. to ensure the healthy growth, multi-fruit and high-quality fruit of pear trees. There are five points to pay attention to when shaving pear trees in winter:

Pear tree scraping

1. Skin shaving should be careful. When scraping, the pear tree should be scraped from the base of the three main branches from the top to the bottom, especially the old skin at the branch, should be carefully scraped clean, the branches do not leak, and the plant should be scraped clean.

2. Scrape off the bark and clean it. When scraping the bark, it is necessary to spread gunny bags or plastic sheeting under the pear tree, clean up the scraped bark, concentrate it, and burn it in the open space, so as to avoid infecting and harming the pear tree again and affecting the growth of the pear tree.

3. Shaving should be done properly. Correct skinning method: big trees are white, young trees are green, and xylem should not be scratched, so as not to cause weakness, dead branches and dead trees due to too heavy scraping.

4. Apply medicine and disinfect after scraping. For pear trees that have been scraped, after 7-10 days, smear the branches with 50-fold bacteriocin clear or putrefied solution, sterilize and disinfect, do not smear while scraping, so as not to cause drug poisoning, dead branches, dead trees and so on.

5. Shaving tools should be hygienic. All cutters for scraping pear bark should be clean, not rotten and not rusty. after scraping the bark, they should be disinfected with alcohol or 50 times bacterial poison liquid and then used to avoid germs infecting pear trees and causing unnecessary losses.