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Micronutrients & Trace Elements for Plants, Citrus & Fruit Trees

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When leaves fade, yellow between the veins, or lose their color while the plant is otherwise fed, the missing piece is usually micronutrients, the trace elements plants need in small amounts but cannot grow well without. This Essential Trace Elements supplement delivers all five, iron, manganese, zinc, copper, and molybdenum, in a chelated form the plant absorbs quickly, to correct and prevent that yellowing and keep foliage deep green. One formula covers it all, houseplants and container plants, citrus, and fruit trees. It comes two ways, so you can pick what suits you, a concentrate bottle you dose yourself for regular feeding across a collection, or pre-measured packets for grab-and-go simplicity with no measuring. Use it alongside your regular fertilizer, especially on container plants and fruit trees, where micronutrients leach away fastest.

Key features

Corrects yellowing from micronutrient deficiency: supplies the trace elements behind pale, yellowing, or off-color leaves.
All five micronutrients: iron, manganese, zinc, copper, and molybdenum, chelated for fast uptake.
One formula for plants, citrus, and fruit trees: the same trace-element set every plant needs.
Two formats, your choice: a dose-it-yourself concentrate bottle, or pre-measured grab-and-go packets.
Spray or drench, and a supplement: apply to soil or foliage, alongside your regular fertilizer.

Ingredients

  • Iron (0.40%), for green color and chlorophyll.
  • Manganese (0.20%), for photosynthesis and enzyme function.
  • Zinc (0.06%), for growth and new leaves.
  • Copper (0.04%).
  • Molybdenum (0.03%).
  • Micronutrients derived from copper EDTA, iron EDTA, manganese EDTA, zinc EDTA, and ammonium molybdate.
  • Plus yucca extract and sodium gluconate to aid nutrient uptake.

Same formula in the bottle and the packets. Contains molybdenum, so do not use on molybdenum-sensitive crops.

How to use

Choose your format, then apply to the soil as a drench or as a foliar spray, in addition to your regular fertilizer.

Concentrate bottle: shake well, mix 1 capful (5 mL, about 1 teaspoon) into 16 oz of water, or 2 capfuls (10 mL) into 32 oz. Apply monthly through the growing season.

Pre-measured packets: mix one packet (15 mL) into 64 oz, about half a gallon, of water. Apply every 2 to 4 weeks through the growing season.

Apply throughout the season, and any time leaves show the yellowing of micronutrient deficiency. On citrus and fruit trees, work it into your regular feeding through the growing season.

Why?

Plants need only small amounts of iron, manganese, zinc, copper, and molybdenum, but without them growth stalls and leaves yellow, often between the veins while the veins stay green. In containers and on hard-working fruit trees, these micronutrients wash out of the soil quickly, so plants run short even when their main fertilizer is fine, and citrus and fruit trees are especially prone to it. This supplement replenishes all five in a form plants take up fast, correcting the color and supporting the foliage, flowers, and fruit that depend on them. It works alongside your regular fertilizer rather than replacing it.

Makes how much?

The 8 oz concentrate bottle makes many gallons of finished feed when diluted to the label rate. The 8-pack has eight pre-measured packets, each making about half a gallon. Both provide micronutrient supplementation through a growing season.
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Silver packaging with green label for Essential Trace Elements on a white background

Micronutrients & Trace Elements for Plants, Citrus & Fruit Trees

8-pack pre-measured packets

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are micronutrients, and why do plants need them?

Micronutrients are minerals like iron, manganese, zinc, copper, and molybdenum that plants need in small amounts but cannot do without. They drive chlorophyll production, photosynthesis, and enzyme function, so when they run short, growth slows and leaves yellow, even when nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are adequate.

What plants can I use this on?

Nearly anything: houseplants and container plants, citrus, and fruit trees like apple, peach, cherry, fig, plum, and mango, plus tomatoes and other vegetables, herbs, and ornamentals. It is one micronutrient supplement for the whole collection, and it is especially useful for citrus, fruit trees, and container plants, which lose micronutrients fastest.

Is this the same as your old citrus and fruit tree trace elements?

Yes. This one micronutrient product replaces the separate citrus and fruit tree versions with a single unified formula that works for all of them, so there is now one product to reach for rather than several.

Will this help yellow leaves?

If the yellowing is from a micronutrient shortage, yes, it supplies the trace elements that restore green color and healthy new growth. Note that if the whole leaf including the veins is uniformly yellow, the cause is more likely nitrogen or overwatering than micronutrients.

How often should I apply it?

For the bottle, monthly through the growing season. For the packets, every 2 to 4 weeks. Apply any time leaves show the yellowing of micronutrient deficiency.

Should I get the bottle or the packets?

Same formula, different format. The concentrate bottle lets you measure your own dose from a capful, the more economical and flexible choice if you feed regularly or across many plants. The pre-measured packets are the grab-and-go option for occasional use with no measuring. Pick your format at the top of the page.

All about micronutrients and yellowing leaves

What micronutrients do, and why a little matters

Iron, manganese, zinc, copper, and molybdenum are needed in tiny amounts compared with nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, but they do outsized work. They build chlorophyll, run photosynthesis, and drive the enzymes behind healthy growth, so when even one runs short, the plant shows it, usually through pale or yellowing leaves and stalled new growth. Supplying the full set keeps those processes running, on a houseplant, a citrus tree, or a fruit tree alike.

Micronutrient deficiency and the yellowing it causes

The classic sign of a micronutrient shortage is interveinal chlorosis, yellowing between the veins while the veins themselves stay green, and it shows on new growth first because these nutrients do not move around the plant easily. It is especially common in containers, where frequent watering leaches micronutrients out of the mix, in alkaline soils where some become locked up, and on citrus and fruit trees, which are heavy users. Replenishing them corrects the color as new growth comes in.

One formula for plants, citrus, and fruit trees

Trace-element needs are broadly the same across plants, which is why one unified micronutrient formula serves a mixed collection, a potted citrus, and a backyard fruit tree. Rather than juggling a separate citrus version and fruit tree version, this single supplement covers all of them, correcting and preventing the same yellowing wherever it appears.

Trace elements, or a dedicated iron fix

This supplement covers all five micronutrients, which suits general deficiency and prevention. When the problem is specifically iron, the yellow-with-green-veins pattern on acid-loving plants like blueberries, gardenias, and citrus, the dedicated Liquid Iron is the stronger, targeted choice because it delivers far more iron. Use the trace elements for broad support, and reach for the iron product when iron is clearly the culprit.

A supplement, used with your regular feed

This is not a complete fertilizer and does not replace one. It is a targeted micronutrient supplement, used on top of your normal feeding, most valuable on container plants, citrus, and fruit trees, and any time leaves show the yellowing of a trace-element shortage.

Bottle or packets: which format

Choose the 8 oz concentrate if you feed micronutrients regularly, across a collection, and want to control the dose and get more per dollar. Choose the pre-measured 8-pack if you want grab-and-go simplicity with no measuring for occasional use. Same formula, two ways to buy it, selectable at the top of the page.

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