OrmusHistory - Nutrients

Plant Nutrients

by Barry Carter

Since 1990 dozens of "new" essential plant and animal nutrients have been discovered. We call these nutrients the ORMUS minerals. When applied to soils they typically improve plant growth, taste and nutrient content by 40% to 60% in the first season. They also increase drought tolerance and freeze tolerance for many plants.

Animals that are fed ORMUS mineral supplements show significant health and endurance improvements.

The ORMUS mineral nutrients can be concentrated from commonly available source materials using simple kitchen chemistry. One of these methods (the Wet Method) consists of taking sea water or whole sea salt dissolved in water and raising its pH to 10.78 using lye (also known as caustic soda or sodium hydroxide) to precipitate out these beneficial minerals. The precipitate contains the ORMUS minerals in a more concentrated form with reduced salt. You can read a thorough description of the Wet Method at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/ormus2.htm

The ORMUS mineral precipitate is typically applied at the rate of one to three gallons per acre (ten to thirty one liters per hectare). This is usually applied just once a year for most row crops but will be after each harvest for grains and other crops which get multiple cuttings per year.

Other methods for making ORMUS are linked at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/articles.htm#METHODS

Here are some links which illustrate the benefits of ORMUS minerals for plants:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/plums.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/carrots.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/walnuts.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/topsoil.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/Sea-CropTests2008.htm

http://www.priestessalchemy.com/html/plant_elixirs.html

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/plants.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/myplants.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/citrus.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/Sea-CropResults.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/grapevine.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/elx.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/freezetolerance.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/Sea-CropTests2007.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/oranges.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/greenonions.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/Sea-Crop_MicroTom.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/soilhealth.htm

Here are a few links which describe some of the benefits of ORMUS for animals:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/cows01.htm

http://www.sea-crop.com/research.html

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/tutstail.htm

Here is a speculative web page on how ORMUS might help to mitigate some of the causes and effects of global warming:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/moregreen.htm

In regard to drought tolerance, much of Australiahas been going through a prolonged period of drought for the last several years. I spent a month and a half giving ORMUS lectures in Australiaduring October-November 2008. Here are some plant related reports from my time there:

After my first presentation in Queensland, I was contacted by a gentleman who said he had a radish in his garden which was as big around as a CD. He offered to drive me to his place to see this radish and I took some pictures of it which you can see at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/Wizards-of-Oz.htm

These radishes were grown with second generation seeds that he collected from his ORMUS garden last year. He said that his giant radishes were not "woody" and that they tasted very good.

This gentleman also had built some ORMUS traps simply by following the instructions on my web site. These traps were quite rewarding to see since I always like to be able to show people traps, which have been built locally, when I give my presentations. You can see two of the traps he built at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/OzTrap01.jpg

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/OzTrap02.jpg

My presentation in Perthhappened at a place called the City Farm. See:

http://www.cityfarmperth.org.au/new_lite/about.html

The "City Farm is an organic community garden, education and network centre that operates on permaculture principles". Inspired by the opportunity to talk to a good number of farmers in the City Farm network, I moved my Wet Method demo and my ORMUS Plants slide show to Sunday. This worked very well as many people at the Sunday presentation came specifically for this info.

All of my time in Australiacoincided with some significant global and local changes. The global economic changes and the American presidential elections stimulated my desire to see some evidence that ORMUS might help people get through the tough times that might be coming. The drought that Australiahas been enduring for the last few years also stimulated a desire to see some evidence that ORMUS might help plants to make it through severe weather conditions. This desire was also expanded by my hope to eat another salad from my home garden despite the fact that there have been 26 freezes in BakerCitysince I left on October first.

My desire to see some evidence of ORMUS helping out under drought conditions was fulfilled when Alfred Goolsbee showed up at my Melbourneworkshop. His new information about plants given ORMUS during drought conditions was so significant that I asked him to give a short talk about it during my Melbourneworkshop. Alfred told us about some plants he had that were given some sea water precipitate ORMUS and survived serious drought conditions when accidentally left in a closed greenhouse without water. You can read more about how the ORMUS plants survived this ordeal and the non ORMUS plants did not on Alfred's web site at:

http://ormus.net/ormus_coop_pages/ormus_agriculture.html

and you can read about a controlled experiment with sprouts at:

http://ormus.net/ormus_coop_pages/water-deprivation-sprouts.html

By the time I got to my last weekend presentation in Canberra, I was feeling quite hopeful that ORMUS might help to mitigate all of the world's food problems including drought. Throughout my sojourn in Oz I had regularly encountered people who were interested in using ORMUS in agriculture as well as using it for consciousness expansion and building community. Frankly, I kinda expected my last presentation to be a bit anticlimactic after all the superlative things that happened at the previous presentation gatherings.

I am happy to report that some of the best news about ORMUS in Australiacame during my Canberraworkshop. Rob Gourlay, an environmental scientist and founder of the Environmental Research & Information Consortium (ERIC) told us about how he has been combining Effective Microorganisms (EM) and ORMUS in some of the ERIC products and Australian farmers have started asking him "where is all the water coming from?" after using this product.

Sharon Rose, who helped set up this Australian tour, first acquainted me with EM back in 2001 and she has been touting the benefits of mixing EM and ORMUS ever since then. Sharonnoticed that magnetic trap ORMUS "liked to hang out" in the carbon filter before going into the trap and she used the Effective Microorganisms to extract the ORMUS from these "clogged" filters. Rob speculates that the increased ORMUS in the soil increases carbon sequestration and that the EM organisms play a major role in this process. He also claims that the carbon, in turn, stores more water and nutrients for later release to the plants. You can read more about this on Rob's web site at:

http://eric.com.au/html/papers_soilmap.php

Rob does not mention on his site that sea water ORMUS is the "secret ingredient" in his soil preparations.

Following is some info that I sent out on Christmas day:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/freezetolerance.htm

I have a bit to add to the page above and I will be adding more when the results are in next spring. So far, this fall and winter, I have seen significant additional evidence of increased freeze tolerance in my salad green patch that I planted in mid summer of 2008.

While I was in Australiabetween October 2 and November 12 there were 26 nights with below freezing temperatures at my home in Baker City, Oregon. You can see these temperatures charted at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/oct-nov-lows.jpg

The day after I returned from AustraliaI took the following picture of my salad green patch:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/08-11-13-SaladGreens.jpg

And the day after that I made a salad from the greens I picked:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/08-11-14-Salad.jpg

On Thanksgiving Day (November 27, 2008) I took some more pictures and brought freshly picked salad greens to my mom's house for our family Thanksgiving dinner:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/08-ThanksgivingGarden.jpg

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/08-ThanksgivingTemp.jpg

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/08-ThanksgivingSalad.jpg

I continued to eat salads using greens picked from this patch well into December:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/08-12-8-SaladGreens.jpg

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/08-12-9-SaladGreens.jpg

Between November 12 and December 9 there were another 26 nights of below freezing weather in Baker City as you can see in the temperature chart at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/nov-dec-lows.jpg

Notice that the night time low temperature on December 16 in the chart above is -14.1 degrees Fahrenheit (about -25 degrees Celsius). The following day I took another picture of my salad green patch:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/08-12-17-SaladGreens.jpg

Notice that some of the flowers and leaves seem to have survived unharmed. I did eat one of the better looking leaves right after I took this picture and it felt and tasted like a living leaf. Here is another picture I took right after I ate the leaf:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/08-12-17-Thermometer.jpg

I took some more salad garden pictures on Christmas day:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/Christmas08Greens3.jpg

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/Christmas08Greens1.jpg

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/Christmas08Greens2.jpg

Notice that there are a couple of leaves toward the bottom of the second two pictures that look alive. These also tasted like they had not been frozen.

Also, I took another picture of the sage plant that survived the winter of 2007-08 unscathed:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/Christmas08Sage.jpg

I know it is close to the house but I also know that the leaf poking out of the snow is indicative of the health of the rest of the sage plants that are still buried under the snow.