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Manganese in Hydroponcs · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hi, welcome back to Hydroponics Daily. Today's going to be a short and sweet
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  one because it's about manganese.
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  There isn't really much to say about manganese. It's an essential micronutrient.
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  You're probably not going to see deficiencies in it unless you're growing plants
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  in crazy high soil pH or growing media with a very high pH.
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  But if you are doing that, you're going to see symptoms of iron deficiency way
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  before you start to worry about manganese.
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  It's an element that's required for chloroplast formation so forming the little
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  organelles in the cell where the chlorophyll resides where photosynthesis occurs
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  but and so symptoms will be a form of chlorosis yellowing,
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  salts of manganese can be added they tend to be fairly pinky
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  and normally it's added as a chelated form to
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  prevent these issues where it falls out of solution at high
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  soil ph just as you would with iron so a chelated form
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  making sure it's always available to the plant and then
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  you would have you know some manufacturers might use a
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  cheap and cheerful sulfate form of manganese can be
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  toxic if you apply too much i think in greece there's certain
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  rocks pinky pinky rocks where it is
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  people do get toxicity they've eaten the rock or the water around the rock but
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  something like gold leaf or in the uk liquid gold there's just the right amount
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  of manganese ample for plant growth and it's not something you should really
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  worry about so that's been hydroponics daily for today thank you.