Nutrient deficiency often affects crop growth; there are many solutions, and organic fertilizer is indispensable

Nutrient deficiency is a problem that frequently occurs in crops as well as garden flowers. Sometimes the crop dies before you have even figured out which nutrient is lacking. To solve the problem of crop nutrient deficiency in the long term, the best approach is still to apply more organic fertilizer; next, pay attention to observation, learn some common knowledge about nutrient deficiency symptoms, and treat them as early as possible. The following introduction is meant to be of some help to you.

Apply more organic fertilizer

Organic fertilizer has the most complete range of nutrients. It not only provides crops with abundant amounts of the three major elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, but also supplies some secondary and trace elements. These are all ways to improve crop nutrient deficiency symptoms.

Besides the organic fertilizers we see on the market, traditional farmyard manure is also a very good choice, such as decomposed straw, composted animal and plant residues, and human and livestock manure.

At farming time, using a sufficient amount of farmyard manure can effectively alleviate nutrient deficiency symptoms in the field. A strategy for dealing with continuous cropping was mentioned before: apply more organic fertilizer, and this is exactly the reasoning behind it.

Identify nutrient deficiency symptoms

Although the nutrient deficiency symptoms of many crops are very similar, if we can master enough agricultural technical knowledge, then in the early stages of nutrient deficiency in crops, improving the situation by spraying or by fertilizing the soil below ground can quickly alleviate these symptoms.

For example, with yellow leaves in crops, the difference between yellowing of young leaves and old leaves allows a preliminary judgment, from such details, of whether the crop is deficient in a mobile element or a non-mobile element. Then, based on the characteristics of the deficiency symptoms caused by each different element, further subdivide, pinpoint the deficiency, and supplement it.

The above situations naturally require a fairly high reserve of agricultural technical knowledge, but most people may not yet be able to do this. Therefore, the simplest and most long-lasting solution is still to choose to apply more organic fertilizer.

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