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Strawberries - Chlorosis
Symptoms
Symptoms always start on youngest leaves with yellow or pale yellow intercostal chlorosis. With prolonged deficiency also veins turn yellow and necrotic areas appear on leaf margins.
Iron deficiency has little effect on fruits. Only with severe deficiency sepals show yellow areas or brown tips.
Reasons
Iron deficiency on leaves and fruits
Leaf symptoms may be confused with magnesium or manganese deficiency. But in this case interveinal yellowing does not start on youngest leaves.
Iron deficiency made worse by
- High pH
- Water logged soils
- Calcareous soils
- High copper, manganese or zinc soils
Iron is important for
- Stronger plants
- Healthier plants
- Gives plants more resistance to cold weather