Plants dark green, often red or purple colors appear, lower leaves yellow, drying Phosphorus to dark green, stalks become short or slender. Leaves mottled or chlorotic, sometimes reddened, necrotic spots, stalks slender. Mottled or chlorotic leaves, necrotic spots small and between veins or near Potassium leaf tips and margins, stalks slender. Necrotic spots large and general, eventually involving veins, leaves Zinc thick, stalks short. A. Young leaves affected.
Terminal buds die, distortion and necrosis of young leaves.
Young leaves hooked, then die back at tips and margins. Young leaves light green at bases, die back from base, leaves twisted. Boron b. Terminal buds remain alive but chlorotic or wilted, without necrotic spots. Young leaves wilted, without chlorosis, Copper stem tip weak. Young leaves not wilted, chlorosis, occurs.