Peach leaf curl

What you see

New leaves emerge thickened, puckered and blistered, flushed red or pink, then whiten with spores and drop. Repeated defoliation exhausts the tree.

Conditions

Infects during cool wet weather as buds swell - exactly this coast's late winter. By the time you SEE it, infection happened weeks ago.

Treatment

Nothing cures visible curl. Strip and bin the worst leaves, feed and water well to help the tree push clean growth.

Prevention

The whole game is copper BEFORE infection: spray at leaf fall (Nov-Dec) and again at bud swell (Jan-Feb). Two sprays, every year, no exceptions.

Months: not recorded

Plants

Peach

Remedies

Not recorded — the field is blank rather than guessed.

The thing people get wrong

Not recorded — the field is blank rather than guessed.