Plant Nutrition 101: All Plant Nutrients and Deficiencies Explained

It's crazy how much I've learnt about my own body through plants and plant nutrition

What's the bulk of the fertilizer?? Like in triple ten, what is the other 70% of the bulk composed of? It's pretty much all salt/crystalline compounds (ionic salts I'm assuming), is it metallic salts or organic salts? What elements? You know, I've never really thought of the "other" part before now...

Oh yeah, forgot this: I'm guessing the percentages are by weight?? So a good chunk of that other 70% is gonna be the other part of the salt...like KNO3 has a fairly large part of it's weight in oxygen (I'm not doing the math here exactly). However, just off the top of my head I don't think the oxygen would be 70% by weight. To save my curiosity some calculations, do you know right off what makes up the bulk weight? Like in triple 5 it would be 85% other, definitely not just the oxygen or other part of the target mineral's salt, so what is it???

hey ya, Im looking to download the resource yu have used in this video. is it on your interest page or elsewhere.

Horticulture is the best field to go into to learn these things. Not botany.

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Hi a friend n me both tried growing some plants and all of them are miniature we both are using different soils his is indoor mines outdoor. Can't get to the bottom of it we've tried planting like 30 seeds and all of them but one have come out mini versions of the plant😊

Imagine how sick humans look and can get when difficient and have bad microbiome, when our plants show so many issues with just a little diffiency. and lack of good microbiome. 
A Droctor NEVER checks our nutrient levels and kids growing up on Kraft Dinner, hotdogs and Cheerios have such a hard start.
Great info thank you!

How can 100lbs of 10-10-10 be the same as 200lbs of 5-5-5? even if the actual weight of NPK is the same wouldn't the concentrations of each be different?

I love gardening and botany and all things plants and I am still verry yung and I am extremely good at gardening

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I’m fat with my dad

thank you for this video, you´re a great teacher !

Great Video. Thanks

Plants need brawndo, it’s got electrolytes!

You are definitely saying molybdenum wrong tho

Thanks buddy. It was helpful

love the instructional videos like this also! #1 king of the Garden Content!

Pretty sure the pronunciation is muh-LIB-deh-NUM.

Mow lib den um Pronunciation for Molybdenum

Awesome video. I really enjoyed it.

100 lbs of 10-10-10 and 200 lbs for 5-5-5 are the same amounts of those 3 elements but lots of differences in the other components

Nice lectures 🫰

Manganese?? Not magnesium twice I think

Wow what a great video. Thanks!❤

Superb. Dude you did an amazing job delivering this information.! By far the best video I've seen covering nutrient deficiencies in plants. You say you are not a botanist a few times, but my friend you ARE a botanist of high caliber! The video itself was extremely well done too! Thank you for your time!

What are you suppose to add to soil to help fertilizer break down so that the plant can uptake nutrients??

Hey this might be a dumb question but I'm sort of confused about the percentages of NPK. We want the soil volume overall to contain 10% of each nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium correct? How is 10-10-10 for 100 the same as 5-5-5 for 200? That equivalency doesn't seem work out because 10/100 = 10% but 5/200 = 2.5%. Shouldn't it be 20-20-20 since 10% of 200 is 20? Or is it that we aren't looking for a 10% volume but rather just 10 lbs total in the growing medium?

Water and dirt. ...its worked for 1000s of years.

There are zero pages about pons and cannibas. That would help many including me. How much to feed max minimum and how to come to a conclusion on how much and when. Hello

You point out that you have Magnesium twice in the list. One of them should be Manganese. I see that has been fixed in the linked blog post but it hasn't been changed in the video description.

Useful video. As somebody already commented below, pH can have a significant impact on nutrient availability, but I want to add two other comments. One is the synergy between Calcium and Boron. Plants cannot really benefit from Calcium unless they have adequate Boron, and plants cannot really benefit from Boron, unless they have adequate Calcium. Second point is that Molybdenum is especially important for legumes (as it is part of the process by which the rhizobia can fix atmospheric Nitrogen to make it available to our gardening system), but these rhyzobia ALSO need Cobalt, generally not considered a plant essential nutrient. On my farm, Cobalt is not likely to be short (because I feed it in a supplement to my Livestock) but it might be something to consider if your legumes are not nodulating effectively

Should have had more toxicity info as well. Otherwise, very helpful.

So great! Thank you for your hard work putting all these videos together. I have been subscribed for a few months and you’ve helped me save a lot of plants! Cheers!

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This was awesome! Very timely for me as I’ve just done my first soil test and things are waaay out of whack!. Thanks!

Simply wow.

thanks for saving my life in my science test

😂l❤❤❤U so so much, thanks for your help😊😊🎉❤❤😂❤

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 !

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

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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?