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calcium nutrition
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BY DR. LYN
Improving calcium nutrition within a plant is not merely a
simple case of dosing up with increasingly higher levels of this
element. Lynette Morgan explains how calcium complexities
must first be understood before they can be addressed.
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alcium nutrition in hydroponics is often
a misunderstood topic with confusing
interactions, environmental factors,
solution management, and elemental ratios
all coming into play. To further complicate
the issue, most nutrient solutions contain
more than sufficient calcium levels, but
induced calcium deficiencies are one of the
most common problems encountered with
several popular hydroponic crops.