Nutrients
Plums - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Deficiency leads to characteristic chlorotic yellowing, and sometimes bleaching, of new leaf growth. Leaf veins remain green.
The severity of the chlorosis increases towards the youngest leaves at the tip of the shoot.
Under severe deficiencies, leaf scorch occurs.
Reasons
Iron deficiency
Problems are more common on high pH calcareous soils, rich in Ca and Mg carbonates, or where soils are waterlogged.
Plums - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Deficiency leads to characteristic chlorotic yellowing, and sometimes bleaching, of new leaf growth. Leaf veins remain green.
The severity of the chlorosis increases towards the youngest leaves at the tip of the shoot.
Under severe deficiencies, leaf scorch occurs.
Reasons
Iron deficiency
Problems are more common on high pH calcareous soils, rich in Ca and Mg carbonates, or where soils are waterlogged.
Plums - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Deficiency leads to characteristic chlorotic yellowing of new leaf growth, whereas leaf veins remain green.
The severity of the chlorosis increases towards the youngest leaves at the tip of the shoot.
With proceeding deficiency, leaves can become almost white.
Reasons
Iron deficiency
Problems are more common on high pH calcareous soils, rich in Ca and Mg carbonates, or where soils are waterlogged.
Plums - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Deficiency leads to characteristic chlorotic yellowing, and sometimes bleaching, of new leaf growth. Leaf veins remain green.
The severity of the chlorosis increases towards the youngest leaves at the tip of the shoot.
Under severe deficiencies, leaf scorch occurs.
Reasons
Iron deficiency
Problems are more common on high pH calcareous soils, rich in Ca and Mg carbonates, or where soils are waterlogged.
Plums - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Deficiency leads to characteristic chlorotic yellowing, and sometimes bleaching, of new leaf growth. Leaf veins remain green.
The severity of the chlorosis increases towards the youngest leaves at the tip of the shoot.
Under severe deficiencies, leaf scorch occurs.
Reasons
Iron deficiency
Problems are more common on high pH calcareous soils, rich in Ca and Mg carbonates, or where soils are waterlogged.
Plums - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Deficiency leads to characteristic chlorotic yellowing, and sometimes bleaching, of new leaf growth. Leaf veins remain green.
The severity of the chlorosis increases towards the youngest leaves at the tip of the shoot.
Under severe deficiencies, leaf scorch occurs.
Reasons
Iron deficiency
Problems are more common on high pH calcareous soils, rich in Ca and Mg carbonates, or where soils are waterlogged.
Plums - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Deficiency leads to characteristic chlorotic yellowing, and sometimes bleaching, of new leaf growth. Leaf veins remain green.
The severity of the chlorosis increases towards the youngest leaves at the tip of the shoot.
Under severe deficiencies, leaf scorch occurs.
Reasons
Iron deficiency
Problems are more common on high pH calcareous soils, rich in Ca and Mg carbonates, or where soils are waterlogged.
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