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["Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>]

My sudbury test kit saays pawpaws stand soils around 6.0 7.5, but i try for 
lower than 6.0
 My later pawpaw information says Ph of 5.5 to 7.0

Gordon C. Nofs
Flint, MI.

Gordon Nofs wrote: If you have a soil Ph of 8 like I have you can
> use a lot. It takes a while to absorb. I use agricultual sulphur
> 0-0-90 about $6 per 50 lbs it is cheap.  I don't have my charts
> handy on pounds per sq. feet for 8Ph, but will dig it up if you
> want.

So do pawpaws like sulfur or do they just dislike a pH 8 soil?  This winter, 
the Brittany puppy chewed or ate all the branches of my first pawpaw to set 
flower buds.  He's a highly motivated little guy.  I'd kind of like to 
sulfur him, but would worry about putting elemental sulfur around any plant 
I'm not trying to take to pH 3.
Bruce Wittchen
Zone 6 CT


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