how's it going everyone so a couple of days ago I noticed on the mandarin
tree that is behind me I noticed that it was showing some signs of an iron
deficiency so I just wanted to make a bit of a video just to show you guys
how to spot and how to tell the signs of an iron deficiency when a tree or a
plant that you have is going through that so yeah so you know what it looks
like what to look out for and then also a few ways on how to treat the iron
deficiency so first I'll show you the mandarin tree and show you the leaves
and how to tell and then later on in the video I'll be discussing a few different
ways on how you can treat it so here we are guys at the Mandarin tree I was talking
about and so I was just noticing as I was picking a few mandarins couple of
days ago because they're getting quite sweet now that a few of these leaves as
you can see they're yellowing these are the young leaves as you can see at the
tips and they are yellowing but also got green veins and so you can see these
with a lot of the plants yeah that they're just starting to show and that
is the sign of iron deficiency that has these green veins which you can see
there and then in between them they've got that yellowing and the key to this
is that they are in the young leaves as you can see this is a chute here and
right by the tip you know the tips right there by that little flower is and some
of those new leaves they're starting to go yellow if it wasn't then it'll be a
magnesium deficiency if they were in the older leaves as you can see right back
in the older leaves there's none of that they're all green and it's only in these
tips that are starting to show signs of an iron deficiency so now to how to
treat your iron deficiency so really the best way and easiest way to treat your
iron deficiency is to get something like she'll eat an iron or granulated iron
now this just like this so this is she laid at iron and it is very water
soluble so you just you mix it with water gently it's for every 10 lead
so for this one and recommended ten scoops because it comes with a little
scoop recommended ten scoops for ten liters you mix that in very easily
dissolves in water and then you apply that around the base over the plant
so water in where the roots and it takes it up this is generally fairly quickly
generally happens within a few days you start to be should start to be seeing
the iron deficiency correct itself but otherwise another way you can apply this
granulated or sheer lated iron is through a foliar spray so you mix it up
I don't really think you need to have it as strong but you mix it up in a spray
bottle or how have you gonna apply it and in the afternoon late afternoon is
best because this is when the stomata in the leaf they start to open to let in
carbon dioxide this way it'll also uptake the water vapor with the iron in
it and this works much faster this is generally I think within around a day or
so you should really start to see it correct itself now the second reason the
your plant could be suffering from an iron deficiency is from the pH so ein is
an element that needs to be in a more acidic soil to become readily readily
available to plants to uptake from the soil so if your soil is too basic or too
alkaline I mean you know it's sort of above seven
the iron you find that iron becomes locked up in the soil and the plants
can't take it up there can be heaps of iron in the sole there can be plenty of
iron in the soil but the pH because it's too high has locked it up so what you
want to do is lower the pH now I know in a moment I will mention two ways you can
do this but you really find this sort of locked up effect so to speak in acid
loving plants like blueberries now my blue blueberries they're quite young in
there and a good soil blend acidic soil blend so they aren't showing signs of
this yet but in the future they might so yeah iron becomes uptake becomes best
I've taken from I think it's like one right up until
about seven I think then it really drops off and really becomes locked up in the
soil so really the best ways to do this to fix this is get us a pH soil kit
which you can really buy quite easily from nurseries and other stores that
that have sort of garden sections in them use that as recommended and check
to see where your soil pH is at if it's really above seven or maybe even six
point six point five should be fine but if it's starting to get seven or above
you might want to correct it so basically all you need to do is add
agricultural sofa or elemental sulfur as recommended by whatever brand it is and
basically what this does is that over time it slowly acidifies the soil and
this is a better long-term effects so as it sort of just works through the soil
and microbes break break it down acidifies the soil so it means it's drop
it drops the pH of the soil which means that the iron becomes doesn't become
locked up and it can be up taken from the plant otherwise another way to fix
this and this is more of a short-term solution is to add something like Spagna
moss so Spagna moss is very acidic it's generally around 33.5 I think in pH and
so if you add that to the soil you can add as a mulch or slightly dig it in or
something like that that will lower the pH of the soil and so the iron then
becomes free for the plants to uptake however this generally is more of a
short-term solution and so really it would be best to add something like the
sulfur to your soil to fix your iron deficiency so there you go guys I hope
that helped you a bit in identifying and treating iron deficiency in your plants
so I will be watching this citrus tree and over the next couple of days and
over the next week just to see for any improvements and if not might just have
to give it just a real little extra bit otherwise yeah like I said pH test I
haven't done that yet so that will also be an option which I'll probably
actually do first before I play any more iron if it doesn't look like the
trees getting any better so before I move on I do have to say a big thank you
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