Essential Plant Nutrients

 

What does a Potassium deficiency look like?

• Yellow stems

• Yellow spots

• Yellow edges and tips

• Brown edges and tips

What does a Nitrogen deficiency look like?

• Tip and center veins become yellow.

• The stem turns yellow.

• Yellow spots appear under the leaf.

• The whole leaf turns yellow.

What does a Calcium deficiency look like?

• The entire leaf turns yellow.

• The leaves fall off easily.

• The leaves become small & wrinkled.

• The leaves have yellow spots on them.

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What does a Zinc deficiency look like?

• Leaves seem faded, showing light discoloration between the veins.

• The stem turns bright yellow.

• The leaves are dark around the edges.

• The leaves are yellow in the center.

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What does an Iron deficiency look like?

• The veins of the leaf turn yellow.

• The leaves shrivel and fall off.

• The stem turns yellow.

• The leaf turns yellow with small green veins & short stems.

What does a Magnesium deficiency look like?

• The leaf turns completely yellow.

• The leaves have holes in them.

• Leaves have yellow spots on them.

• The leaves have interveinal chlorosis, weak stalk.

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Nitrogen helps make plants look

• Green

• Yellow

• Short

• Dried out

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Phosphorus helps ( ) and ( ) grow.

• Vines and stems

• Roots and flowers

• Flowers only

• Stems only

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A lot of fertilizer is always better for plants:

• True

• False

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Plant fertilizers generally include these three elements:

• Nitrogen (N)

• Iron (Fe)

• Phosphorus (P)

• Potassium (K)

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