louis14

The field is recovering nicely nowadays, it was clearly chill damage. Thank you all for your enlightening support!

Nicolas Naranja

The latex will congeal inside the leaves under cool weather conditions. I've never had plants get quite that yellow from cold though. In the late spring, I sometimes get a passing manganese deficiency that is due to the plant not being able to take it up from the soil. Interesting pictures!

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Soil looks excessively dry. Increase the water on a few and see what happens. I dought it will hurt. Check it out.

louis14

The Gros Michel field that was affected by chill damage in early December is continuing into recovery. This is the dry season here and it has not rained for three months now. Of course we irrigate three times a week. In that particular field, the soil is very sandy and red and came from deep down as we spread the soil from a 15 ft deep 200Kft3 water reserve we had dug. The red sandy soil seems to have favoured early fruiting and there are hundreds of beautiful pups everywhere so things, although they look dry, are under control. Of course, we also fertilize with 15-15-15, extra potash for fruiting stems and extra folear feeding in the dry season.
The leaves that were yellow have turned brown, new leaves are appearing. The chill damaged leaves will not recover and will be cut as enough new leaves grow up to replace them.

beam2050

looking great.

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davea

These other pictures with yellow leaves
Couldn't that indicates an nitrogen or sulfur deficiency? Maybe magnesium? But I doubt that because yellowing of leaves caused by a lack of magnesium will return their green colour when magnesium is added

Are all the plants recovering now? I have rootrot so many deficiencies will appear.

I am very curious what deficiency it is. I want to recognise every deficiency :-)

louis14

In this case and this more exposed field, it was clearly wind chill at night, we have more sheltered fields with the same variety, planted at the same time, that get the same treatment but suffered little or no wind chill. Check the earlier posts for the temperature information.