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How is flower color variation in hydrangea related to pH of the soil?
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∙ 12y ago
Forget ph. Take iron nails, copper and zinc or aluminum and place it on 3 sides of the plant near the outside drip line. You will get three different colored blooms on one plant.
The National Arboretum suggests that you can vary the pH to change the availability of aluminum in the soil.
Flower color in H. macrophylla is dependent on cultivar and aluminum availability. Aluminum is necessary to produce the blue pigment for which bigleaf hydrangea is noted. Most garden soils have adequate aluminum, but the aluminum will not be available to the plant if the soil pH is high. For most bigleaf hydrangea cultivars, blue flowers will be produced in acidic soil (pH 5.5 and lower), whereas neutral to alkaline soils (pH 6.5 and higher) will usually produce pink flowers. Between pH 5.5 and pH 6.5, the flowers will be purple (see image at left) or a mixture of blue and pink flowers will be found on the same plant.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 12y agoAcidic soil turns Hydrangeas blue and basic soil turns hydrangeas pink
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Do pennies placed in the soil next to hydrangea plants effect the color?
Not that I've heard. Many hydrangea strains will have different flower colors, depending on the aluminum content of the soil. When there is available aluminum, the flowers will be blue. When there is no available aluminum, they'll be pink. This doesn't work for white hydrangeas. You can add aluminum sulfate, which is available at most garden centers, to turn pink flowers blue. In order to turn blue flowers pink, raise the soil pH by adding a liming material, and the aluminum will form insoluble compounds and no longer be available to the plants.
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What color would a hydrangea flower be if you planted it in neutral soil?
if it changes color because of the pH levels in the soil- red or pink -acidious soil purple-ish -neutral soil blue-basic soil
If your hydrangea flowers were pink in color what could you add to make the flower blue?
Go to the following web site. I think it will contain all the information you are looking for. http:/www.hydrangeashydrangeas.com/colorchange.html
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environmental conditions
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