Re: Copper deficiency
- Subject: Re: Copper deficiency
- From: A* J*
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:50:43 -0500
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
- Posted-date: Wed, 1 May 2002 01:50:38 +0200 (DST)
> -------Original message-------
> From Kathie Morgan <fishrap@earthlink.net>
> Date 30/04/2002 03:25:39
>
> pumpkins don't suffer with it anyway
>
> Alun,
> Do you mean that they don't get it, or that they do get it but they
> don't suffer? Or, given that it's a deficiency, perhaps you meant that
> they don't not get it? Or wait...
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Yo Kathie,
I read sometime ago about copper deficiency and from what I remember
the pumpkins do not suffer with a lack of it..neither do a few other plants...but animals
that feed on plants (not pumpkins) that are deficient in copper will themselves be
deficient in copper and it makes them sick...cattle for one is an animal that needs
copper. Without it they become sick and eventualy die.....But the plants will grow fine
with or without the copper and also a few other trace elements...I have just started to
read a book on soils and there is a chapter on this....I'll let you know more when I get
that far.
Alun
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