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Plant Nutrition |
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Like Human Beings, plants too need a combination of macro and micro nutrients in suitable proportions, to enable their growth, support flowering and fruiting, enhance luster, and ensure that they live and thrive for a longer duration.
Some essential nutrients and their role in plant health…
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| Nutrient |
Role |
| Nitrogen (N) |
- Overall healthy growth and for leaves and stem formation |
| Phosphorous (P) |
- Essential for flowers & fruit formation
- enhances flowering
- Encourages rapid growth |
| Potassium (K) |
- Enhancement of flavor & color of fruits & vegetables |
| Sulfur (S) |
- Improves root growth and seed production
- Helps in chlorophyll formation |
| Calcium (Ca) |
- Increases cell wall strength
- Increases resistance to diseases |
| Magnesium (Mg) |
- Part of the chlorophyll in all green plants and essential for photosynthesis |
| Micronutrients (Cu, Fe, Zn, Mo, Mn, Bo) |
- Needed to promote enzymatic activity, nutrient absorption & transfer, and metabolic activity |
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| Identify common Nutrient deficiencies in your plants |
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| Calcium/Traces |
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- Or might be K, Mg overdose twisted pale new growth |
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| Severe Nitrogen |
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- White/yellow tiny leaves |
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| Iron |
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- Yellowing of entire plant |
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| Nitrogen |
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- Old leaves are reabsorbed from tip to stem |
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| Phosphate |
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- Older leaves yellow, and parts of the leaf is reabsorbed leading to dead patches, the leaf fallsoff rather quickly, looks similar to early nitrogen deficiency; green spot algae on older leafs |
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| Magnesium |
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- Dark veins lighter leaf tissue |
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| Potassium |
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- pin-holes form in leaf that enlarge with a yellowing edge, leaf is otherwise normal looking
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