Nutrients
Apricot - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Fe deficiency leads to charactaristic chlorotic yellowing, and sometimes bleaching, of new leaf growth. The severity of the chlorosis increases towards the youngest leaves at the shoot tip.
Under severe deficiencies, leaves scorch.
Reasons
Iron deficiency
Problems are more common on high pH calcareous soils, rich in Ca and Mg carbonates, or where soils are waterlogged.
Peaches are the most susceptible of the stone fruit crops to iron deficiency, followed by plums, apricots and then cherries.
Apricot - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Fe deficiency leads to charactaristic chlorotic yellowing, and sometimes bleaching, of new leaf growth. The severity of the chlorosis increases towards the youngest leaves at the shoot tip.
Under severe deficiencies, leaves scorch.
Reasons
Iron deficiency
Problems are more common on high pH calcareous soils, rich in Ca and Mg carbonates, or where soils are waterlogged.
Peaches are the most susceptible of the stone fruit crops to iron deficiency, followed by plums, apricots and then cherries.
Apricot - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Fe deficiency leads to charactaristic chlorotic yellowing, and sometimes bleaching, of new leaf growth. The severity of the chlorosis increases towards the youngest leaves at the shoot tip.
Reasons
Iron deficiency
Problems are more common on high pH calcareous soils, rich in Ca and Mg carbonates, or where soils are waterlogged.
Peaches are the most susceptible of the stone fruit crops to iron deficiency, followed by plums, apricots and then cherries.
Apricot - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Fe deficiency leads to charactaristic chlorotic yellowing, and sometimes bleaching, of new leaf growth. The severity of the chlorosis increases towards the youngest leaves at the shoot tip.
Reasons
Iron deficiency
Problems are more common on high pH calcareous soils, rich in Ca and Mg carbonates, or where soils are waterlogged.
Peaches are the most susceptible of the stone fruit crops to iron deficiency, followed by plums, apricots and then cherries.
Apricot - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Fe deficiency leads to charactaristic chlorotic yellowing, and sometimes bleaching, of new leaf growth. The severity of the chlorosis increases towards the youngest leaves at the shoot tip.
Reasons
Iron deficiency
Problems are more common on high pH calcareous soils, rich in Ca and Mg carbonates, or where soils are waterlogged.
Peaches are the most susceptible of the stone fruit crops to iron deficiency, followed by plums, apricots and then cherries.
Iron deficiency made worse by
- High pH
- Water logged soils
- Calcareous soils
- High copper, manganese or zinc soils
Iron is important for
- Combats chlorosis
- Prevents premature leaf fall
- Gives healthier greener trees