The Rainponics nutrient mix contains everything plants need to be healthy, and if you follow the advice on this website, you should be able to grow reasonably healthy plants. It might still be possible to run into deficiency symptoms, so let’s look at them. Before trying to diagnose deficiencies make sure your plant is growing at the proper growing temperature. Cold wet conditions are notorious for producing iron deficiency symptoms in plants, even if there is plenty of iron in the media. Dry conditions can also induce a variety of deficiency symptoms that will go away one proper moisture has returned. Be sure to check the rootzone pH. Incorrect pH can make certain nutrients unavailable to plants. Remember the pH and nutrient availability chart?
Ok, now that we have done that let’s look at the deficiency symptoms. Here is a great article from Montana State University on Nutrient Deficiencies. The flow chart from the article is below.
Contact us if you are having serious problems with deficiency symptoms.