Blueberry Auto Outdoor

Look at that pH level. Terrible. Last week I mentioned how I had some kind of leaf damage - maybe insects, maybe a fungus, maybe a deficiency...well, it's a deficiency, caused by pH levels that got completely out of hand. How did that, you ask? Because I made a rookie mistake - I was pH testing the soil with one of those cheap analogue soil testers, and it was consistently 6.8. Perfect. But with the leaf damage happening, and it spreading to the other plants, I got into real investigative mode all week. So I decided to pH test my water, something I just never really do since we had our well tested three years ago and the pH was "fine". That's right, ladies and gentlemen...I claim to know what I'm talking about (sometimes) when it comes to growing in general...and I don't even know what my well's pH is. I know it's "fine". So, I test it...7.6 - highly alkaline. So now I'm skeptical of my soil tester, so I go stick in the forest, all over the place. Every single time...6.8, 6.8, 6.8. My soil tester has been lying to me. So, now I do a TRUE soil pH test - I water to runoff, collect the runoff, run it through at least a shintillion-quillion coffee filters until the water is clear, and I test that. 7.6 Frustrating, but now I know what to do. So I went and bought several gallons of spring water, pH tested at 6.3, and I just started flushing. Flush, flush, flush. I also cut back all the companion plants, let the plants dry for a few days, gave them an acidifying watering, and now the pH levels are down a touch to 7.3. It will be a process. I cut off almost all of twiggy's dead growth...I won't even pull 5 grams off her. The other plants I think I'll be lucky to hit 15g. My first time growing autos, and it's been quite the teacher. Clean-but-highly-alkaline country living.