Candied_ginger - I love gardening, I know a lot about ORGANIC gardening specifically...read from in-depth horticultural books, learned through experience and also because what I do has everything to do with composting and organic gardening. My post was about NOT WASTING a christmas tree specifically and using some of its goodness for another purpose in the garden such as adding pine needles for some acidity when PLANTING things like blueberries. Your articles supported my post but you seemed to keep glossing over the point because pine needles DO add immediate acidity but will move towards a more neutralized pH (although 6-6.5 is still technically slightly acidic) over time...that's a no brainer if you know anything about soil! My post was not about stuffing 1,000 evergreens in your soil to change your soil pH over the next 3 years...you're the one that went way off track because you were stuck on being a reddit bully. I still offered an analysis of some of the resources you guys brought forth and gave several paragraphs on the findings and how you guys were misinterpreting it. If you want to tout your own gardening experience by putting others down, you go ahead and do that, that is always a quick and un-intelligent way of defending yourself (someone writes a 4 paragraph argument torting your assertions and you respond with a link...haha it's laughable). I most certainly like to learn new things from experts, but you certainly are not one of them. You're a reddit gardening troll that tries to smash people with good advice...you're an interesting find since gardeners are by nature such nice people. If you had a different approach to my responses besides harsh lashbacks with no real argument support perhaps we could have had a great educational debate but you didn't, so I pulled my post because I am not going to partake in simplistic childish back-and-forth conversation with you and give you my forum to do so. I was not about to let my post get taken over by you into some witch hunt that's undeserved. I've seen you around the gardening subreddits and have disagreed with you on many an occasion but I would never stoop as low as you with all the baseless comments. I speak from experience and from my knowledge. If you want to learn more about soil science, feel free to go read up on the soil food web and Teaming up with Microbes. That's a good start, if that's simplified enough for you to comprehend but if not feel free to keep attacking others that are trying to offer genuine advice with articles that offer data that you yourself don't know how to interpret.

and yes, I will be deleting this comment once I've posted it and downrating your comment. Please don't interact with me anymore. Thanks.