Plant is blooming too slowly.

[Bethmeg]

I don’t want to hijack the thread, but I’ve been waiting for someone to bring-up one of those seldom talked-about nutrient deficiencies. Cu is one.
I checked all my nutrient labels and source water and found no mention of B, Cu or Zn in them. However I don’t worry much about Cu deficiencies having copper piping in my house.
I guess that that leaves me with B or Zn as possible deficiencies.
BTW…Where’s your Mn on your list? That’s a deficiency I look out for and treat.

I copy and pasted dear.So if somethings missing ??
I have copper in my water albeit in small amounts and it will be in my nutrient.
Plenty of info on the tinternet about it.


My post was to point out plants can be mistaken for being overfed when they are dark green,when in fact it could be the ph out of range,A cold rootball/problem with the roots or not watering properly amongst other things.
They then go on to underfeed exasperating the problem when all that is needed is the ph correcting.
I used the copper pic for an example of this.

With copper being a micronutrient you are likely to see other problems before you end up seeing something like this,
Nitrogen calcium and magnesium being the first.So it makes sense that the ph would be the issue if you were to see something like this.

I rarely if ever get deficiencies now with the nutes I use and I don’t take nutrient readings.But I will keep the ph spot on at all times.I find it’s the most important thing is keep the ph in range and you shouldn’t get deficiencies.

[Phytoplankton]

As previously said, usually, if you have a micronutrient deficiency it's not because there are none of those micronutrients in the soil, it's becasue the PH is out of whack and the plant can't utilize them. True mictronutrient deficiencies (lack of micro's in the soil) are pretty rare.