Black Currant Big Bud
T/U"HERE black currants are grown, the most troublesome pest to deal with is tho big bud mite, which not only seriously reduces the crop and so weakens the bushes as to malto them worthless, but is responsible for the spread of the serious disease known as "reversion." The mite is microscopic and its presence may be detected at this season by the fact that infested buds swell to twice or more their normal size, are spherical in shape and, later, fail to develop. Inspect your bushes now, picking off and burning all buds that show indication of infection. Unless this is done now the mites will escape from the buds. To destroy any inites which escape, the bushes should be sprayed with lime sulphur. The usual strength is 1 in 15. The best time to spray is before the flower trusses develop and when the largest leaves are about the size of a shilling.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23761, 14 September 1940, Page 9 (Supplement)
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197Black Currant Big Bud New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23761, 14 September 1940, Page 9 (Supplement)
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