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- Identify and kill instinctual dying on the boxwood
- Moist warm weather favors fungal infection
- You can do that
- Effectively prevent motor dying
- These pathogens also kill shoots
- Tips
The instinctual death is caused by a fungal disease
Identify and kill instinctual dying on the boxwood
Fungi, viruses, bacteria or pests: The once so popular boxwood is threatened on many fronts. In addition to the hard-to-combat boxwood manure especially makes a particular fungal infection many boxwood stocks difficult. But the dreaded instinctual dying does not just have one cause.
Moist warm weather favors fungal infection
If it gets warm and humid in the summer, the fungal infection has come to a wedding. Once Cylindrocladium buxicola has settled in, the gardener first spots brown, rapidly growing spots on the leaves of the boxwood. The bottom shows many tiny, white dots. These are the spores of the fungal pathogen. In the course of the disease, the leaves fall off, also die the shoots and remain as dried-up, brown skeleton.
You can do that
Since effective pesticides are not allowed in the small and home garden, you only have the scissors: Cut out the affected areas generously and prune back large box trees vigorously. Do not wait too long with such a cut as the disease progresses rapidly. If the plants are still quite small, only the clearing helps. Furthermore, it makes sense to remove the top soil layer around the affected plant and replace it with healthy soil - the fungal spores overwinter in the soil, but also in the plant material. Therefore carefully combine the clippings and fallen leaves and dispose of them with the household waste.
Effectively prevent motor dying
Since Cylindrocladium buxicola infection occurs during a rainy period and the boxwood leaves need to be exposed to at least several hours of heavy moisture, you can take a few simple steps to prevent it:
However, the most important precautionary measure is this: never cut your book in the rain, because then the mushroom has particularly easy cards through the open cuts.
These pathogens also kill shoots
In addition to Cylindrocladium buxicola, there are other pathogens that cause similar symptoms:
These are each fungal diseases. A virus infection, however, is rare in boxwood. But there is still a dreaded animal pest, which also triggers a motor dying and eats stocks quickly in no time. The speech is - how could it be otherwise - from the boxwood, a butterfly whose caterpillars have a great appetite for boxwood.
Tips
In case of an infestation with the Buchsbaumzünsler you do not need to resort to the chemical club. There are good home remedies that are non-toxic and easy to apply.