Iron Chelate

Iron Chelate and Yellow Leaves
Getting Iron into your plants when your PH is to high .




Halman9000

Well you have to drop your ph.
Simple.
As I remember iron works best around 7.0 ph.
One way I drop my ph is with phosphoric acid. Others use PH down or some other product.
O.K. now...what's your point?

My tap water is highly alkaline, so Iron is the only thing I'm lacking in my outdoor garden. I spray micronutrient foliars several times per season, seems to do enough. The plants grow great even at a higher than optimal PH.

Rurumo said:

My tap water is highly alkaline, so Iron is the only thing I'm lacking in my outdoor garden.

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So collect rain water. I do aquaponics inside my house and the town water melts my aquarium plants.
Actually as an outside gardener I do a lousy job. I keep forgetting to water them. I've had timers and such but everything goes weird.
So I'm in the process of setting up an aquaponics setup outside. Changing over on of my raised beds.
I tinker alot. Attached is my 55 gal. rainwater collector.

I live in the desert and I also have high ph like most desert regions. If you live in an area like mine, you do not have the luxury of rain water so what I tell customers at the nursery I work at is:

1) Add organic matter to your soil, compost, EWC etc…the soil, sand here has very little little organic matter in it.
2) use organic fertilizers made for acid loving plants, blue berries, azaleas etc. Fish emulsion is also very good for bringing down ph Levels.
3) By lowering the ph, you unlock the iron and zinc that is already present in your soil. No need to add more iron.
chelated iron is a bandaid and does not address the problem.
4) Fast acting sulfur.

Obepawn said:

I live in the desert

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Educate me. I would love to live out in the desert. But the water issue seems to be horrible. How deep would I need to drill to reach the water table? I hear it could be 500+ ft. and falling. The story I'm fed up here in the N. east is that farming and industries like golf courses are draining the water resources.