Is There Any Way To Determine If My Plant Has A Nutrient Deficiency?

Does your plant show any unusual effects that occur mostly on older or lower leaves?

Is the whole plant more or less uniformly affected, showing signs of drying or firing in lower leaves?

Is the plant light green, with chlorosis in lower leaves, the plant may be stunted or woody with short and slender stalks if it's in later stages of growth?

Are the effects on the plant localized?

Does the plant have mottled or chlorotic leaves with large or small spots of dead tissue while the leaf margins might be crinkled and curled?

Does your plant's terminal bud or younger leaves show any unusual effects, symptoms are localized?

Is the terminal bud dying or dead, followed by an appearance of distortions at tips or bases of younger leaves?

Were the young leaves of terminal bud typically hooked at first, and then started drying back at tips and margins, stalks may have died with the terminal bud?

Is the chlorosis present on the young leaves with or without spots of dead tissue, but the young leaves have not wilted?

Are the leaves pale green with veins somewhat lighter in color than interveinal area?

Is the necrosis commonly present in spots scattered over the leaf and is the interveinal tissue yellowish with green veins?

Your plant shows the signs of nitrogen deficiency.

If the plant is dark green, especially young leaves, with usually purplish-red stems near the end of the shoots, your plant is showing the signs of PHOSPHORUS deficiency. Other symptoms could be short and slender stalks in later stages of growth and often delayed fruiting.

Your plant is showing signs of potassium deficiency.

If your plant has prominently mottled or chlorotic, often red leaves with dead spots, and the tips and margins are turned or cupped upward, your plant might have magnesium deficiency. Other symptoms include slender stalks.

Your plant might not have a nutrient deficiency but may be affected by a disease. You should search the symptoms to determine what disease it is and how to treat your plant.

Your plant doesn't show any sign of nutrient deficiency.

Your plant is showing signs of calcium deficiency.

If the young leaves of terminal bud are becoming light green at bases your plant might have a boron deficiency. Other symptoms include twisted leaves and stalk that died back at terminal bud in later growth.

Your plant is showing signs of sulfur deficiency.

Your plant is showing signs of manganese deficiency.

If the necrosis shows only in leaf tips or margins your plant might be showing signs of iron deficiency. Other symptoms include yellowish interveinal tissue with green veins that might become lighter in color later.

If young leaves are permanently wilted, without spotting or marked chlorosis, your plant might have a copper deficiency. Other symptoms include twig or stalk that's unable to stay erect in the later stages of deficiency.