Calcium
Benefits of Use:
- Increases stalk strength and reduces lodging in grain crops
- Increases shelf life and reduces shipping and storage disorders in fruits and vegetables
- Promotes maturity and improves fiber quality in cotton
- Improves plant tolerance of environmental stresses
- Enhances nodulation in legumes
- Promotes early root growth
- Promotes maturity and viability in seed crops
Deficiency Symptoms—When to Apply:
- Weak stalk and lodging
- Roots short and knotted
- Leaves and terminal buds distorted
- Leaves with wrinkled appearance
- Leaf die-back at the tips and along the margins
- LETTUCE: tip burn, TOMATO/PEPPER: blossom-end rot, CUCUMBER: hollow heart, BROCCOLI: black heart
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