Wasted $60 on a fancy soil pH meter that was completely wrong

I bought this digital pH meter off Amazon for $60 because I wanted to get serious about my hydrangeas turning blue. The thing showed a reading of 6.5 right out of the box, so I adjusted my soil with sulfur based on that. After three months of yellow leaves and no flowers, I grabbed a $10 test strip kit from the local nursery and found out my soil was actually 5.0. Has anyone else had a tool give you totally bad info like that?

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sam_rivera5d ago

Wasted $60" seems to be the story of my life lately with anything that promises precision.

walker.rowan4d ago

C'mon @sam_rivera, is a bad purchase really the end of the world though?