• Contact Us
  • Garden Advice
  • Stockists
  • Company
  • Home
      • Garden
      • Pest
  • Problem Solver
  • Products
  • Pests
  • Diseases
  • Weeds
  • Garden Health
  • Organics
 
close

Go to product page
Garden Guy

Garden Guy

These products help deal with phosphorous deficiency

nourish all purpose organic fertiliser /assets/Uploads/Packshots/_resampled/SetWidth120-ORGANIC-Nourish-All-Purpose-500ml.png

Benefits

  • Improves growth, health and strength in a wide variety of plants.
  • Improves soil biology for stronger & healthier plants.
  • BioGro® Certified Organic for use in organic gardening.
  • Nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium (NPK) plus trace elements & humics.
nourish citrus organic fertiliser /assets/Uploads/Packshots/_resampled/SetWidth120-ORGANIC-Nourish-Citrus-500ml.png

Benefits

  • Improves health and strength of citrus plants.
  • Boosts foliage growth and fruit production.
  • Improves soil biology for stronger and healthier plants.
  • Specially formulated for citrus plants; nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium (NPK) plus magnesium, selenium, calcium, trace elements & humics.
  • BioGro® Certified Organic for use in organic gardening.
nourish flower organic fertiliser /assets/Uploads/Packshots/_resampled/SetWidth120-ORGANIC-Nourish-Flower-500ml.png

Benefits

  • Boosts growth and improves health of all flowering plants.
  • Improves soil biology for stronger and healthier plants.
  • BioGro® Certified Organic for use in organic gardening.
  • Specially formulated for flowering plants; nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium (NPK) + magnesium, high potash, trace elements & humics.
nourish vegetable organic fertiliser /assets/Uploads/Packshots/_resampled/SetWidth120-ORGANIC-Nourish-Vegetable-500ml.png

Benefits

  • Boosts growth and promotes healthy vegetables.
  • Improves soil biology for stronger and healthier plants.
  • BioGro® Certified Organic for use in organic gardening.
  • Specially formulated for vegetables; nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium (NPK) + trace elements & humics.

phosphorus deficiency

Garden » Garden Health » phosphorous deficiency

phosphorous deficiency

Phosphorous is an essential element for the healthy growth of plants. Plants that are deficient in phosphorous show burnt leaf tips followed by lower leaves changing colour.

How to About Did you know Related articles Gallery

HOW TO CONTROL PHOSPHOROUS DEFICIENCY

Check for the tips of leaves looking burnt and for lower leaves darkening and becoming red or purple. These symptoms suggest the plant/s are not absorbing sufficient phosphorous.

Apply an appropriate organic fertiliser. Kiwicares NOURISH ORGANIC FERTILISER range include formulations for all the plants in your garden; ALL PURPOSE, CITRUS, FLOWER and VEGETABLE fertilisers. Each has an ideal balance of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium (N:P:K) plus trace nutrients and humics for each plant type.

Because phosphorous absorption can be strongly influenced by the pH (acidity - alkalinity) of the soil, check the pH. To make phosphorous most available to the plants adjust the pH to neutral or slightly acidic, pH6.0 - 7.0.

The phosphorous in the NOURISH ORGANIC FERTILISER range is in the natural forms of seaweed, fishmeal and natural salts. BioGro have certified all the NOURISH range for use in organic gardening.

About

The typical symptoms of phosphorous deficiency include leaf tips looking burnt and then lower (older) leaves darken and may turn reddish or purple.

Plants absorb phosphorous in the form of phosphates. Phosphates are not easily dissolved in water so are only slowly leached from soils. However, the pH (acidity - alkalinity) of soil can significantly affect the ability of plants to absorb phosphorous. For optimum absorption of phosphates soil should be neutral to slightly acid, in the range pH6.0-7.0.

Phosphorous is is involved in many aspects of plant growth and encourages flowering and root growth.

Did you know

The macro nutrients that plants need in relatively large quantities are nitrogen (N), sulphur (S), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg). But plants also need trace elements in small quantities for healthy growth. Trace elements include; iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), boron (B), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), molybdenum (Mo) and humic acids.

Related articles

  • Spring Clean Your Garden
  • Nourish Organic Fertiliser

Gallery

Plants lacking phosphorous will have burnt edges to leaves and lower leaves darkening to purple.

About Kiwicare

We are Kiwis providing expert local solutions that keep your place pest free and your garden healthy.

Pest

Pest home Pest Problem Solver Pest Control Products Pests Pest Advice

Company

About News Products Vacancies Useful Links Contact
Proudly made in NZ

© 2011 Kiwicare