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R. Steele wrote:Hi John,
Any pH tester will work. The leaf luster set up with the capsules, is cheap, accurate and effective. Just follow the directions exactly, and your good.
Geoff Colpitts wrote:
R. Steele wrote:Hi John,
Any pH tester will work. The leaf luster set up with the capsules, is cheap, accurate and effective. Just follow the directions exactly, and your good.
An old post, but for reference:
Regarding PH, you should read Heidi Hermary's book "Shifting Paradigms". She shows pretty conclusively that PH has little to do with growing blueberries... or rather it's far more complex of a relationship, and PH tests usually just involve using chemicals to determine one half of what can be a slow and not very useful test.
There are plenty of alkaline blueberry bogs in the world. It's true that you can have acidic conditions that indicate an availability of iron, which goes a long way to having successful blueberries, but the real key is just the organic matter content - I believe it was that Iron is available at any PH, at high organic matter content, but it really varied a lot, and beggars the question of "why test this in the first place", or "why plan ahead rather than just trying out both and letting nature take its course".
The short version of "PH is only kind of relevant" is that the availability of minerals to plants is not a one dimensional graph, but at the least a two dimensional one, so it's a bit like... using a hammer on a screw. It might work, or it might break the screw, but it will definitely be clumsy.
I have a feeling that if you look deep enough into big agrobusiness, you'll find that they are directly responsible for this very common partial myth. It allowed them to mine peat bogs to death (specifically the death of the human species). Peat was supposed to be the "acidifier" that fixed blueberries, whereas really it's more important because it retains moisture and adds organic matter.
I second the person who says honeyberries avoid the spotted wing fruit fly.
A little disturbing that I'm writing this from the house of one deceased "R. Steele".
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