Nutrient Deficiencies of Landscape Palms Resource

[joe_OC]

After updating my Dypsis baronii post from nine years ago, I realized I needed to be able to identify nutrient deficiencies better in my palms.  This document from the University of Florida was the most comprehensive I have found so far:

U of F Nutrient Deficiencies of Landscape and Field Grown Palms

 

If you have better references, please share.  It would be great to have a repository for palm nutrition.

[joe_OC]

I found an even better interactive resource:

ID Tools Palm Symptoms of Diseases and Disorders

Use the right and left arrow to scroll to all the different symptoms.

Edited November 7, 2018 by joe_OC

[Missi]

The book Ornamental Palm Horticulture is a must have! It has photos of every pest, disease, and deficiency! 

[joe_OC]

On 11/8/2018, 9:47:24, Missi said:

The book Ornamental Palm Horticulture is a must have! It has photos of every pest, disease, and deficiency! 

It's on it's way!

[joe_OC]

So I learned that chelated iron is not all created equal.  If you have alkaline soil, you will need to use EDDHA chelated iron.  The following graph shows how the efficient iron uptake based on soil pH:

 

Edited November 10, 2018 by joe_OC

[Tomas]

There is also this UF page with the single nutrition disorders containing even more pictures.

https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topic_palm_nutrition

Beside that, what's in the book, at least in the first edition, is also on Internet

Tomas

Edited November 13, 2018 by Tomas

[Rickybobby]

On 2018-11-07, 3:50:24, joe_OC said:

After updating my Dypsis baronii post from nine years ago, I realized I needed to be able to identify nutrient deficiencies better in my palms.  This document from the University of Florida was the most comprehensive I have found so far:

U of F Nutrient Deficiencies of Landscape and Field Grown Palms

 

If you have better references, please share.  It would be great to have a repository for palm nutrition.

Great piece. After seeing this it looks a bunch of my palms are all missing at least one of these.