If something is wrong with the seedlings, do not lose your composure and try to find out the reason, and then take action.
An example would be yellowing seedlings. First, a thin dry border appears along the edges, and then the entire leaf withers.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh, an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti" - a scientist agronomist and landscape designer, told what this is connected with and how to prevent further yellowing.
Why do seedlings turn yellow?
If watering is fine, these symptoms may indicate a zinc deficiency.
This can happen if a gardener decided to save money and dug up soil on his plot or in another accessible place.
In this case, it is difficult to talk about a balanced composition of nutrients; the situation will have to be corrected after the fact.
How to fix
If we are talking about zinc deficiency, then there is nothing easier than adding zinc chelate to the soil.
Plants absorb this supplement without difficulty, it is only important to calculate the dosage correctly.
How to proceed
In such cases, gardeners are advised to choose foliar feeding.
To prepare the nutrient mixture, you need to dissolve 1.5-3 g of the substance in 10-15 liters of water.
Mix and pour into a sprayer, treating the seedlings on the leaves at intervals of once every two weeks.
During the growing season, the chelate is applied approximately twice.
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
