Papaya

Nitrogen deficiency

Symptoms: Older leaves turn into yellow colour.
Affect: It affects the vegetative growth.

Solution

Product: Macrofert 20:20:20 5gm/lit
Soil/Drip: Plantex 20:20:20 5kg/acre
Benefit: Helps in vegetative growth, formation of amino acids

Phosphorous deficiency

Symptoms: Older leaves turn into red and purple colour leaves.
Affect: Stalk is short and slender.

Solution

Product:Fertimax 12:61:00 5gm/lit, Fertimax 00:52:34( 5-10gm/lit)
Soil/Drip: Plantex 12:61:00 5kg/acre
Benefit: Root development, winter hardness

Potassium deficiency

Symptoms: Spot of the dead tissue small, usually tips and between veins more marked on margin of leaves.
Affect: Stalk is short and slender.

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: Leaves on the tip of the shoot may be turn yellowish and may curl upward.
Affect: Root growth is restricted,root tip become brown.

Solution

Product:Aquacal-3-4ml/lit, fertimax CN 5-10gm/lit, combical-3-5gm/lit, horticab 2-3ml/lit, crack gourd 2-3ml/lit
Soil/Drip: -
Benefit:Cell formation,cell elongation,cell division

Magnesium deficiency

Symptoms: Leaves turn yellowish with brown spots on the leaf margin.
Affect: Plant height is reduced .

Solution

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

Sulphur deficiency

Symptoms: The leaves become pale yellow,under severe deficiency terminal bud gives more starved apperance.
Affect: Crop yield is reduced .

Solution

Product:Primasulf 3-4ml/lit, fertisol 5gm/lit
Soil/Drip: -
Benefit:Improves special character in crop

Copper deficiency

Symptoms: Yellowing of younger leaves.
Affect: Fruit spot.

Solution

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

Boron deficiency

Symptoms: Young leaves of terminal bud becoming light green at base and finally break down latter.
Affect: Leaf become twisted.

Solution

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

Zinc deficiency

Symptoms: Enlarging leaves with short internodes.
Affect: Growth will be poor.

Solution

Product:Chelamin plus1-2gm/lit
Soil/Drip: Chelamin gold 0.5kg/acre
Benefit:Helps in activation of enzymes

Iron deficiency

Symptoms: Intervienal chlorosis with green network of veins on leaves.
Affect: Friuts may be highly fleshed and low in sugars.

Solution

Product:Chelafer1-2gm/lit, Agrofer-1-2gm/lit
Soil/Drip: Ferromag 5kg/acre, Ferromix-5kg/acre
Benefit:Helps in electron transport chain and helps in photosynthesis

Manganese deficiency

Symptoms:Yellowing of younger leaves and veins remain green in color,if the deficiency is more leaves turn to brown color.
Affect: slow growth.

Solution

Product: Mn-chel- 1-2 ml/lit of water or mobomin 1 gm/lit of water
Soil/Drip: Agromin soilplus-10-15kgs/acre
Benefit: It involves wide range of enzymes process inlude hormone synthesis