Plant Nutrition 101: All Plant Nutrients and Deficiencies Explained

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Funny that list is identical to what you need as a human.

My persimmons leaves are turning brown on the outer edge. ?:( any tips 🙏🏻

I want to make my own soil, fertilizer, and grow my own plants. I don't want to spend any money on the garden except for pots

You forgot some Brawndo - it's got electrolytes and it's what plants crave !

Insightful

Would have been much more informative to know HOW to treat each of these deficiencies by using natural products. Like, egg shells, or coffee grounds..etc. Can you make a similar video, going through the list, but also inform on how to treat it?
Thanks

Mol- lib- dee- um

I recently watched one of his videos that was put out a couple of weeks ago. This one says it's 5 years old, has anyone else noticed that Eric has secretly discovered the fountain of youth and is not sharing it with us? Either that or he hasn't realized his GARDEN is the secret!

What an awful thing to have to process. I can't imagine the loss of a family member let alone my mother. Take all the time you need! We will be here (:

So in short: when you buy fertilizer, majority of it is empty filling. Also when you plant flowers and basil under your tomato, you are very meticulously fertilizing your tomato for fruit, your flowers for flowering and your basil for leaves. You use a pipet dropper to not mess up your other plants right next to each other ;)

Great video!! can you post a video regarding chemicals that might damage plants? For example, too much salt in the soil? Soap in soil? Chlorine/ bleach in soil? Dog poop? animal urine? What effects to these common things that tent to fall in soil have?

How do you fix if you fried your plant

Magnesium listed twice because you missed manganese......, looks close enough.

Chlorine and chloride are different element

Is there a toxicity video? This is great info!! Thanks for sharing.

Molybdenum is pronounced moh-LIB-duh-num with the accent on the second syllable.

You meant manganese on that second magnesium

So will I grow leaves if I take these vitamins?🤔

My plants had a manganese deficiency, so I bought them the Dragon Ball collection.

Thank you a very good refresher.

I give too much organic nitrogen to my tomato plant, they are growing good but a disaster for the fruit produce

I believe I have heard Molybdenum pronounced as Moe-Lib-De-Num. No big deal.

There are factors to consider when looking at exactly what you use to provide your soil with a full array of nutrients. One of them that was not mentioned was pH. An acid soil that you want to keep acid might get powdered sulfur, magnesium sulfate solution, and calcium sulfate. These things will either be neutral or acid in reaction to the soil and provide Calcium, Sulphur and Magnesium as well. In alkaline soil, they would tend to lower the pH. If you have soil that needs the pH raised a bit and needs Calcium, Magnesium, and sulfur, Dolomitic limestone has both magnesium and calcium in it and Calcium sulfate provides calcium and sulfur. The limestone also raises the pH. The interplay between pH and nutrient availability is something good to understand. This also helps you choose sources of nutrients that go with the pH you have and like or change the pH toward what you want. Calcium Sulphate is also good for loosening hard clay soil and helping repair salt damage. Various organic fertilizers can raise, lower or work well with your existing pH. It's good to learn about these things and the info is readily available. This was a good presentation. I liked the symptoms of deficiencies and how they were portrayed and described.

Not sure if this is a stupid question or smart question: can you dissolve vitamin supplements in water and feed them to your plants (or rather is it a bad idea)?

Thanks fo the helpful info. I cannot find any info on when specific nutes are needed or when we should focus on what nute. When to begin calmag? When to begin feeding? etc.?

Excellent information

Nutrient deficiencies are fascinating, the way they all work together. Wanting to understand more opened up a new and endless world of soil science to explore 🙏

Brondo it what plants crave

chrorine. - yellow leaves

K - potassium ... fruit

P phosperous root growth

N nitrogen - green leaf

amazing guide of lifetime.

Thank you for the detail. I am a beginner gardener the video is very direct and informative. Much needed. 👍🏽

I’ve noticed that there are no fertilisers or micro nutrient additives in Australia that contain Chloride. If someone were to grow with an inert substrate like rock wool, all the plants would have a Chloride deficiency.

good tutorial, thank you

I'm a horticulture graduate student working on my masters and then PhD at Colorado State University. I'm taking a class called Horticulture and Human Health and Well-being. Fun fact, my professor uses this video in his lecture.

Man.....this is really awesome information. I've had curly spinach leaf, and purple tomato leaves, but these were a purple variety so still not sure about that one plant.
I don't count nutrients as I have always used organic gardening methods and I don't mean those organic pellets from the store. I just compost and cover with straw. I get some council wood chips and leaves and compost those with urine. I also add wood ash and char to the compost. I rarely have pests. I companion plant because It self seeds a lot. I also grow cover plants that I let die and rot, like raddish, clover and peas.
I have had curly leaf on a peach tree last year, but it's come back ok this year, just cut it back hard and got rid of the ants that were spreading it. It was them or harlequin bugs. I dust elemental sulphur with diatamacious earth and burdock root for a pesticide and my spinach, bracicas and cellery come up really dark green, so that makes sense.

Soil analysis are unreliable and unrelated to the plant health, brix level, sap analysis are much more reliable, and just the eyes on the plant behaviour and colors are much better than using soil analysis. Most soils have an abundance of what is chemically required by plants, if the plant can't access it, it's a microbiology deficiency. Apply the mineral by foliar. Get a response from 2 hours to two days, then assess a week later and restart. The plant can promote soil microbiology, if not there are some products than can try and remedy this, but it is never as good as applying the microbiology at seed level or when planting. No nitrogen in fall, never phosphorous never. (tons of P in the soil everywhere, just not bioavailable => more biology required)

If one element is not in the list of nutrients for plants, it's because research has not yet been done on it. Each element is present in the soil profile, if the plant is lacking it is more often because a microbiology element that moves or transform it for the plant is deficient or suppressed or killed or displaced. Some deficiencies are due to the excess of another. Stopping to apply N when fruits fall is a good start. Reducing or removing P from fertilisers is another step to promote soil microbiology. (10sof tons of P in soil per hecare in the first 6in already present) Plants do not mine the nutrients, and do not drink water. Plants use moisture, and recycle nutrients with the help of microbiology. We see effect of a nutrient deficiency it is the result of a problem in soil microbiology, fungi, protozoa, nemathodes, worms etc. Copper is elasticity, if fruit crack, or branches are brittle, copper deficiency. Also Zinc deficiency makes smaller leaves, asymetrical leaves, and reduced or no plant growth at all. Mineral deficiency is preferably addressed by foliar application, while in the soil it's the microbiology deficiency that must be addresses (the plant in good health will then build the soil and its life)

Does this pertain to potting mix as well? I have used my potting mix for three years and Im pretty sure all my pots are spent. 13 tomato plants with only 4 tomatoes.

Are you recommending that we test container soil as well? I just use a balanced blend of compost, peat, and an quality bag mix. I don't like use the garden soil that we have available locally and my own soil is just gravelly-silt. Not too much going on in that stuff.

Those elements are all the stuff that humans and animals need to grow at thrive too. We are ALL connected by life.

Do a video about Alocasia care, so many myths about them. Please show me how to properly love my plant.

I have some plants issue, however, it seems not similar from the above. My plant is growing tall but from bottom to the top, the leaves are getting tiny and tiny, the shape also curve outward

And here I was giving my plant tsp water and worried the chlorine would be bad for them lol

What about Brawndo, it’s what the plants crave!

wasn't manganese missing from the list... but covered in the vid...