Dr. Phyto

gooseberry

Ribes uva-crispa

Diseases & pests on this plant

• American gooseberry mildewSphaerotheca mors-uvae

  White powdery coating on leaves + young shoots + young fruit, infected fruit turn brown + felty (the diagnostic symptom — looks like the fruit has been dipped in chocolate), shoot tip distortion + dieback, severely infected plants progressively decline over 2-3 years.

• white pine blister rustCronartium ribicola

  Yellow leaf spots on currant leaves in summer, orange-brown gelatinous teliospore columns on leaf undersides in autumn, bright orange blistering pustules on white pine bark + branches.

• grey mould (Botrytis)Botrytis cinerea

  Fuzzy grey mould on leaves and stems.

• spotted-wing drosophila (SWD)Drosophila suzukii

  Brown soft patches under skin of ripening berries 24-48h before harvest, tiny white maggots inside fruit when split, fruit collapses + leaks juice within 3 days, males with distinctive black wing-tip spot.