Your Plants Might Be Stressed….!
You might be amazed by listening about plant stress that how does the plant get stressed?
Like your body gets stressed by hectic routine, changing lifestyle, the same goes with plants.
But do the plants have routine…?
Of course, they have, they absorb nutrients, water from roots transports to every leaf, branch, absorbs sunlight and proceeds with photosynthesis.
But when this routine gets disturbed plants are subjected to stress.
So, this is how you will be able to identify and cure plant stress-
Plant stress can be detected if it shows following symptoms-
Wilting Leaves- Causes due to lack of soil moisture. It also happens due to intense heat. Sometimes heavy logged water or excessive moisture content of soil can also be responsible for such stress.
Yellowing Leaves- it is also known as chlorosis and happens to the crops of poor water drainage soil. The nutrient deficiencies of nutrients like nitrogen, iron could also induce such stress.
Leaf Curling- when crop is exposed to extreme heat or absence of water content, the leaves get curled inward or downward. Sometimes it signifies the pest infestation.
Blackened Leaves- The leaves start turning brown to black like sunburn due to heat stress.
Ragged Leaves- The cuts or holes in leaves happens due to heavy rainfall or strong gusts.
Discolored Leaves- The white, pale green, yellow hue, brown or white papery patches are occurred on leaf surface due to lack of water content nutrient deficiency. It can be the symptom of fungal infection.
Dried Edged Leaves/Dried Leaves Margins- When crop is subjected to high concentration fertilizers or over use of fertilizer can induce such kind of plant stress.
Stunted Growth- Sometimes the soil texture restricts the root growth, happens specially with compacted soil, it damages the roots resulting in stunted growth. Sometimes growth gets stunted due to inadequate sunlight.
Leaf Drop- In case of harsh situations like drought, heavy rainfall, water logging, disease or pest infestation, leaves start dropping prematurely.
Poor Flowering- The plant suffers through flower fall; bud fall and sometimes the flower growth is prevented by stress.
Failure in fruit setting- The fruit does not set properly due to premature fall of flowers or they show irregular growth due to stress.
Root rot- In heavy rainfall or water logging situations, the roots start rotting and can be recognize by their color turns to brown and mushy. It results in death of plant.