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Friday, May 30, 2025
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BlossomDown
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Welterweights, Wa
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Some more of my thoughts... I think the whole region I live in has a copper deficiency especially during cool wet weather. I've started to notice other plants, even wild plants adapted to the area, will show a reddish scorching on some days when the weather has been unfavorable. This could also be low phosphorus, but I think its a lack of copper? I notice manganese being low in the wild plants sometimes, too. For similar reasons... The weather and the time of year and the soil biology affect each nutrient differently. Probably certain enzymes work best at set temperature ranges, certain soil biology work best under specific conditions, and the plant draws in varying amounts of nutrients owing to the weather. And its not all just the weather, the growth rate of the plant is important too. When the new season's shoots are about halfway developed the nutrient demands of the plant have become very high. Add to this a lack of transpiration (a cool rainy day) and the wild plants will quickly take on a deficient appearance.
Its a good thing that there are deficiencies though. If there weren't, we'd need to bring back herds of dinosaurs or something to keep everything chewed down and under control. Imagine if there were no deficiencies, then everything would get buried under all the vines growing 12" per day. There are a lot of other plants that would also like to grow 12" per day, and imagine if they all did! So, maybe its a good thing that there are deficiencies.
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