Cocoa

Nitrogen deficiency

Symptoms: Leaves appear pale or yellow in colour.
Affect: Younger leaves becomes small.

Solution

Product: Macrofert 20:20:20 5gm/lit, Prima sulf 3-5 ml/lit
Soil/Drip: -
Benefit: Helps in vegetative growth, formation of amino acids

Phosphorous deficiency

Symptoms: Mature leaves paler towards the tip and margin.Growth was stunted.
Affect: The size of younger leaves gets reduced,often showing interveinal paleness.

Solution

Product:Fertimax 12:61:00 5gm/lit
Soil/Drip: -
Benefit: Root development is retarded

Potassium deficiency

Symptoms: Burning of younger leaf margins.
Affect: Marginal necrosis progress more rapidly between veins with yellow zone on inner surface.

Solution

Product:Fertimax 00:00:50 5gm/lit, Fertimax13:00:45( 5-10gm/lit), Fertisol 3-5gm/lit
Soil/Drip:-
Benefit: Resistance to pests and diseases,opening and closing of stomata

Calcium deficiency

Symptoms: Tips of youngest leaves become white,rolled and curled.
Affect: Stunting and death of growing point during extreme deficiency.

Solution

Product:Aquacal-3-5ml/lit, combical-2-3gm/lit, horticab 3-5ml/lit
Soil/Drip: -
Benefit:Cell formation,cell elongation,cell division

Magnesium deficiency

Symptoms: Necrotic areas in interveinal region near leaf margin.
Affect: Prominent bright yellow zone in advanced necrotic areas.

Solution

Product:Magmix 4-5gm/lit, zinc mag 3-5ml/lit
Soil/Drip: -
Benefit:Helps in photosynthesis,starch translocation

Copper deficiency

Symptoms: Pale greyish green interveinal chlorosis spreads from tip of leaf base.
Affect: Newly emerging leaves short,narrow and light green,plants shorter.

Solution

Product:Phosphocop 2-3ml/lit
Soil/Drip: -
Benefit:Serves to intensify flavour and colour in vegetables and colour in flowers

Boron deficiency

Symptoms: Plant growth is retarded and leaves turns to yellow or red colour.
Affect: It is associated with sterility and malformation of reproductive organs.Seeds also fail to mature with out boron.

Solution

Product: Boron 20 1gm/lit, Potabor super-2-3gm/lit
Soil/Drip: -
Benefit:Translocation of sugars and help in pollination

Zinc deficiency

Symptoms: Interveinal chlorosis of the foliage and reduction in size of the leaves.
Affect: Effected leaves shows symptoms such as mottling and krinkling with wavy margins and are often malformed.

Solution

Product:Chelamin plus1-2gm/lit, Zinc mag 3-5ml/lit
Soil/Drip: -
Benefit:Helps in activation of enzymes

Iron deficiency

Symptoms: Leaf becomes white in colour.
Affect: Interveinal chlorosis.

Solution

Product:Chelafer1-2gm/lit, Agrofer-1-2gm/lit
Soil/Drip: -
Benefit:Helps in electron transport chain and helps in photosynthesis

Manganese deficiency

Symptoms: Interveinal chlorosis of young leaves.
Affect: plant growth may be reduced and stunted.

Solution

Product:Mn-chel- 1-2 ml/lit of water or mobomin 1 gm/lit of water
Soil/Drip: -
Benefit: Helps in nitrogen metabolism and involves in photosynthetic activity