Victrinia Ensor
Omono
Everything Martin said is spot on except for one thing...
I wouldn't bother chancing around with regular miracle grow... ericaceous plants do not thrive on nitrogens that come in a nitrate form... but specially formulated "acid loving" ferts provide the nitrogen in a ammonium or urea form that will help to acidify the soil.
In fact... there was a study done on salal by a University that high dose nitrogen (of the nitrate form) could be used for plant control in otherwise highly conducive enviornments.... So take a forest where it's growing waist deep... and spray it with a high dose of nitrogen of the wrong type... come back later... and it's dead.
That's how much ericaceous plants don't love nitrogen in the wrong form.
That Martin has not fed his an overdose... is great... but I don't think there's much benefit to giving it something in a form which it doesn't like.
Otherwise there's a lot of good basic information in there.
Kindest regards,
Victrinia
I wouldn't bother chancing around with regular miracle grow... ericaceous plants do not thrive on nitrogens that come in a nitrate form... but specially formulated "acid loving" ferts provide the nitrogen in a ammonium or urea form that will help to acidify the soil.
In fact... there was a study done on salal by a University that high dose nitrogen (of the nitrate form) could be used for plant control in otherwise highly conducive enviornments.... So take a forest where it's growing waist deep... and spray it with a high dose of nitrogen of the wrong type... come back later... and it's dead.
That's how much ericaceous plants don't love nitrogen in the wrong form.
That Martin has not fed his an overdose... is great... but I don't think there's much benefit to giving it something in a form which it doesn't like.
Otherwise there's a lot of good basic information in there.
Kindest regards,
Victrinia