Apricots
by Barry Carter

When ORMUS is applied to older trees, their limbs may not have developed the strength to support the extra weight of the fruit or nuts that they produce. This was apparent in the summer of 2008 when an older apricot tree had a particularly abundant crop of apricots after being given sea water precipitate ORMUS for only the previous four years of it's twenty plus year life. Here is a closeup image of the broken branches of this apricot tree taken on August 9, 2008:

Here is an overview of the entire tree taken on the same day:

Notice the dog across the fence in the lower right corner of the picture above? This is one of the dogs that guards my neighbor's apricot tree. Their tree did not have as many apricots on it as my tree did. Here is a picture of my neighbor's tree taken on July 27, 2008:

One reason that their tree did not have as many apricots may be that my guard cats did a better job of keeping squirrels from stealing the apricots than their guard dogs did. In the lower right picture below you can see one of my guard cats:

Here is another picture of them guarding the apricot tree in 2007:

Though he looks quite peaceful in the picture above I recently got a video of the smaller guard cat attacking the dogs across the fence. I am not sure that this is related to ORMUS even though I do put the Sea-Crop in the cat's water.

In the closeup below is a picture of my neighbor's tree taken on July 27, 2008; you can see how sparse their apricots were:

I also have a closeup photo of the apricots on one branch of my tree. This photo was taken on August 9, 2008:

I don't think that the squirrels, cats and dogs are entirely responsible for the difference in the weight of the branches between my tree and my neighbor's tree, though. In the months before the apricots ripened on both trees, I took periodic pictures of several representative apricots picked from the north side of each tree. Three of these pictures are below:

The grid on the background is half inch square.

As you can see, the apricots from my tree have been consistently larger throughout their growing cycle.

Summary

Though all of the plant stories above suggest major improvements when sea water ORMUS is added to the soil, this evidence cannot truly be truly called scientific. In each case at least one component of the scientific process is missing. The apricot results may be due to different species of tree since I do not know that these trees came from the same source. These results may have been skewed by the squirrels or the positions of the respective trees in relation to sunlight.

We don't know for sure if the different squash plants are the same species and they were grown across the continent from each other. The plants in North Carolina were not even measured.

The before and after pictures of the cilantro and dill are from different years. Also, I am not really sure that they don't typically reach heights greater than they did in my garden.

The same is true for the lettuce heights. I am not sure what others are getting with these plant breeds.

I do know that there are taller sunflower plants with larger sunflowers but I am not sure how the breed of sunflower I have compares to the breeds that get the largest.

All of these issues and more need to be accounted for in controlled scientific research.

I do know that the food from my garden and trees sure tastes good. I also know that I feel really good after I eat it.