Module VI: Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms
Lesson 3: Deficiency Symptoms of Secondary Nutrients
Unit 1: Calcium Deficiency Symptoms
After completing this Unit, you should be able to
answer:
1. Describe the leaf symptoms due to calcium
deficiency in chili pepper?
2. How do you identify calcium deficiency in chili
pepper?
Module VI: Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms
Lesson 3: Deficiency Symptoms of Secondary Nutrients
Unit 1: Calcium Deficiency Symptoms
Mild calcium deficiency may not affect
growth, but plants develop a
characteristic 'torn leaf' symptom on
their upper leaves.
These younger leaves are short and
are often held erect. The margins of
the leaf blade usually turn pale green
or pale yellow and tear easily to give a
characteristic serrate or saw-tooth
appearance.
Module VI: Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms
Lesson 3: Deficiency Symptoms of Secondary Nutrients
Unit 1: Calcium Deficiency Symptoms
In some cultivars, the leaf tips become
deformed and curl to form sword-like
tips, or bend down and break off
leaving blunt tips to the leaves.
Module VI: Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms
Lesson 3: Deficiency Symptoms of Secondary Nutrients
Unit 1: Calcium Deficiency Symptoms
Many tillers develop from the basal
nodes and the newly formed young
leaves on these tillers show symptoms
of severe calcium deficiency.
Module VI: Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms
Lesson 3: Deficiency Symptoms of Secondary Nutrients
Unit 1: Calcium Deficiency Symptoms
Flowering and maturity are delayed by mild calcium
deficiency, but fruit size is often unaffected.
However, when calcium deficiency is severe, the fruit
may not form or it may be partly fallen.
Module VI: Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms
Lesson 3: Deficiency Symptoms of Secondary Nutrients
Unit 1: Calcium Deficiency Symptoms
With this, the Unit 1 on Calcium Deficiency Symptoms in
sorghum in this Lesson concludes.
The next unit in this Lesson is about deficiency symptoms
of sulfur in chili pepper.
In the third and last unit in this Lesson deficiency
symptoms of magnesium in chili pepper is explained.