{"id":7655,"date":"2010-06-05T01:09:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T08:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7655"},"modified":"2010-06-03T07:28:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T14:28:20","slug":"yellow-sickly-leaves-caused-by-chlorosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/yellow-sickly-leaves-caused-by-chlorosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow and Sickly Leaves caused by Chlorosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Acid deficiency \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4656378926\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4050\/4656378926_ca1829eecb.jpg\" alt=\"Acid deficiency\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yellow sickly leaves on acid loving plants is called &#8216;chlorosis&#8217;. It is a nutrition problem as the plant is inhibited from getting the nutrients from the soil. It is easiest to think of it as an Iron or acid deficiency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plants affected by Yellowing Leaves<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Rhododendrons  often suffer if the soil is not sufficiently acidic as the picture shows. Eventually the leaves then the shrub dies.<\/li>\n<li> Chlorosis in fruit trees is a gradual yellowing of the tissue between the veins of younger leaves will occur while the veins themselves stay green.<\/li>\n<li> Azalea, Laurel, Maples, Oaks and other ericaceous plants  can show symptoms of  chlorosis.<\/li>\n<li> Tomato chlorosis crinivrus is a yellowing of leaves but is cause by a virus introduced by white fly. Control the insects and feed the plants.<\/li>\n<li> Yellowing leaves on houseplants can be due to overwatering. If your plant has been sitting in water  it&#8217;s time to let it dry out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cures for Chlorosis<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Water with a liquid feed of &#8216;Sequestrene&#8217; which is designed for such plants.<\/li>\n<li>Fertilizers that contain chelated iron, manganese and magnesium will help improve the colour and health of leaves and plants available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=&lt;b&gt;acid fertilizer\/b&gt;\"> Thompson Morgan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Murphy-Sequestrene-Granules-5-Sachets\/dp\/B000TAWDDI\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=garden&amp;qid=1275575109&amp;sr=8-1\">&#8216;Sequestrene&#8217;<\/a> Granular Iron  Tonic is for acid-loving ericaceous plants. It provides iron in a chelated form which can easily be taken up in any soil.<\/li>\n<li>Foliar Sprays may be effective as a temporary measure, spray when the symptoms are first noticed with a ferrous sulphate solution.<\/li>\n<li>Peat, ericaceaous compost  or applications of acid fertilizers, such as ammonium sulphate may help mild cases of iron chlorosis.<\/li>\n<li>Do not lime the soil.<\/li>\n<li>Treatment the soil directly with flowers of sulphur to lower the pH to 5.5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/sundries1\/product\/kww2555\/1.html\"> Buy Chempack for acid lovers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow sickly leaves on acid loving plants is called &#8216;chlorosis&#8217;. It is a nutrition problem as the plant is inhibited from getting the nutrients from the soil. It is easiest to think of it as an Iron or acid deficiency. Plants affected by Yellowing Leaves Rhododendrons often suffer if the soil is not sufficiently acidic as the picture shows. Eventually the leaves then the shrub dies. Chlorosis in fruit trees is a gradual yellowing of the tissue between the veins&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/yellow-sickly-leaves-caused-by-chlorosis\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-pests-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}