The experiment was carried out in a greenhouse aiming to characterize visual symptoms of macronutrients and B deficiency in leaves and fruits of sweet passion fruit plants cultivated in box with sand and irrigated with nutrient solutions. It was used eight treatments in a complete randomized block design, as follow (complete nutrient solution, -N, -P, -K, -Ca,-Mg, -S and -B), with four replicates. Symptoms of deficiency were observed between 85 and 240 days after the application of the treatments, - N: uniform chlorosis and premature fall of leaves and yellowish green color fruits and translucent aspect; - P: old leaves with dark green color and, later, white spots on the surface of the leaves; - K: chlorosis and subsequent necrosis of the basal portion of the central rib of old leaves that progressed to the borders, and fall of the leaves and fruits wrinkling of the epicarp with consequent wilting of the fruit; -Ca: deformation and necrosis of the borders of new leaves and fruits cracks in the epicarp and in the mesocarp and apical rot of the fruits; - Mg: old leaves with internerval chlorosis; - S: chlorosis of new leaves with small colorless spots and; - B: new leaves with coriaceous aspect and undulation in the boards and fruits with brown bands of cork on the peel.
Passiflora alata; mineral nutrients; leaves; fruit
