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- From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
- To: <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>, "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Deficiency symptoms
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:52:21 -0500
Yes, I had the stunted curled leaves on several
seedling rootstocks, and was convinced it was a virus. Mind you, how
seedling apples would get a virus was a puzzle.... Then there was
the "virus" distorting the leaves on our tomato plants, not all of them, but
here and there and one variety in particular for 3 years running. This
turned out to be a boron deficiency. We'd upped the pH and the organic
matter, a recipe for boron deficiency, and we have clay soil. I'd say
southern clays were notorious for boron deficiency except that no one seems to
be talking about it. This problem with southern clays has been recognized
for many years, Louis Bromfield talks about it in a book written in the 50's,
but my leaf samples only puzzled the local co
agent.
From the site Dennis linked
to: http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/min-def/apple.htm I'd guess we are a bit short of zinc too, something I've
wondered about. Donna
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[NAFEX] Brown Out,
Zeugitai, 06/06/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Brown Out,
dmnorton, 06/06/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Deficiency symptoms, Donna &/or Kieran, 06/06/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Brown Out,
dmnorton, 06/06/2007
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