To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] pH question
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 12:51:37 -0400
This topic was intensively discussed about 2-3 years ago. Check the NAFEX archives and you will find references to the web sites for the chemistry involved with pine needle decomposition.
(to counter your argument that the soil is what the crop is, why not the converse, the crop is what the soil is, namely, only certain things will grow in that pH regime!)
I don't know a lot on the topic and I don't know what pH southern soil normally is. But my statement only address the fact that what comes into the
tree is the same as what eventually falls off.