Pepper - Wilting
Symptoms
Total height is reduced, the leaves look wilted and flaccid. All leaves show a fairly even chlorosis.
Symptoms begin with a yellowgreen interveinal discoloration of the terminal leaves. The leaf veins remain dark green for some time. With ongoing undersupply the veins also become chlorotic.
Causes
Iron deficiency (right)
Pepper - Wilting
Symptoms
Total height is severely reduced, the leaves look wilted and flaccid.
The upper, younger leaves show a typical, yellowgreen interveinal discoloration. The leaf veins remain dark green for some time, but with ongoing undersupply they become chlorotic, too.
Causes
Iron deficiency (right)
Pepper - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Terminal leaves show a typical, yellowgreen interveinal discoloration. The leaf veins remain dark green for some time, but become chlorotic, too, with ongoing undersupply.
Causes
Iron deficiency
Pepper - Wilting
Symptoms
Terminal leaves show a typical, yellowgreen interveinal discoloration. The leaf veins remain dark green for some time, but become chlorotic too with ongoing undersupply.
Causes
Iron deficiency
Iron deficiency vs. optimum made worse by
- High pH
- Water logged soils
- Calcareous soils
- High copper, manganese or zinc soils
Iron is important for
- Essential for photosynthesis and plant metabolism
- Thus important for early leaf development, strong growth and crop productivity
