Retail Blueberry Plants / Wholesale Blueberry Plants

I just heard from one of my customers in Florida.  He told me that his plants were not growing even though he purchased them 3 months ago.  He called me and advised that his plants were not growing and the leaves were all turning yellow, and falling off.  After talking to him about his cultivation practices, it seemed that he was doing everything right.  He was fertilizing with miracle grow "Azalea formula" and had pine bark mulch on top of his soil to choke out the weeds. 

Despite all this, his  rabbiteye blueberry plants were turning yellow and dying. 

He bought some soil at a large box store and this is what he planted his blueberry plants into.  Unfortunately, the soil that he bought had a pH level of 6.5.

6.5 is an excellent pH for certain flowers and garden vegetables.  It is about the worst soil for rabbiteye blueberries that there can be. 

Rabbiteye blueberries require an acidic soil of 4.3 to 5.6. The rich soil he bought from the box store, which for other plants would have been ideal, was killing his blueberry garden. 

Luckily, my friend caught his error in time to possibly save many of his plants. 

Be very careful of the soil that you plant Rabbiteye Blueberry Plants into.  It can't be too alkaline, or they will fail.