Deficiency Symptoms
Plant Growth reduces. The leaves become pale pink between veins, wilts and start to fall.Reduced juice formation inside fruits. Citrus fruits shows irregular Redbrown spots.
Conditions Affecting Cu Availability
- Soils with excess N, P, K Mn, and Fe can depress copper absorption by plant roots and may increase the intensity of copper deficiency
- High pH soils, heavy organic matter
- Heavy limed soil
- Soil with heavy organic matter
- Leached acid soils
- Sandy soils
- Alkaline and calcareous soil
- Soils with high Fe and Mn