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judycooksey Pocahontas, TN(Zone 7b) Aug 15, 2005

Food Deficiencies

Nitrogen - Overall yellow with no green veins

Magnesium - Yellow between veins, looks somewhat like iron deficiency

Boron - New leaves are smaller, edges curl and are thicker

Potassium - Browning of older leaves, edges dying, leaf crinkling and splotching

Manganese - Mottling of new leaves with checkering between veins

Iron - Yellowing of all but the veins

Sulfur - Lack of pigment in all parts of new leaves

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hope43 Tulsa, OK(Zone 7a) Aug 15, 2005

very good.. glad to see this...

Twyla

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sugarweed Taylor Creek, FL(Zone 10a) Aug 21, 2005

Now Judy please list remedies for each of these, preferably in the "dirt cheap" mindset.
Please,
sidney

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judycooksey Pocahontas, TN(Zone 7b) Aug 21, 2005

I surely wish I could, but ....

Judy

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Terry Murfreesboro, TN(Zone 7a) Aug 21, 2005

Here are some organic fertilizer options and their NPK: http://davesgarden.com/terms/go/2112.html

I've been told (by those that know a lot more about science and soil than I ever will) that symptoms of macro and micronutrient deficiences may be a matter of your soil's pH being out of whack, which ties up the nutrients and keeps them from being usable.

You can cover up the problem with fertilizers, but you're just putting a band-aid on the problem. A better solution is to test your soil, then choose fertilizers and amendments that will help it in the short and long run.

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sugarweed Taylor Creek, FL(Zone 10a) Aug 21, 2005

Well, that near about requires total replacement in Florida sandhills. They are 'sand' and everything perks at 55mph.
I will find the list made over in Brugs again. I have now started copying and pasteing these to my own file so I can access them.
The information on DG is phenominal.
Knowing the fert. analysis of organics is good too. Do you think leathery Live Oak leaves are the same as the thinner Pin, or other oaks?
sidney

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Dea Frederick, MD(Zone 6a) Aug 21, 2005

Terry, that is in Gardening Terms; it's a place I obviously don't visit often enough because that is a GREAT rundown.

Can you make that a sticky in Garden Talk or is it in Classic Threads? It's really good info that never changes :)

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jestelleoan Tyler, TX(Zone 8a) Aug 22, 2005

Judy, thank you that makes it easer to understand.


Terry, thank you for the hyperllink. I can not belive how much I learn here.
Joan

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