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New Success Story

Here's a great story about the planting of the highly sensitive 
Palo Verde submitted by one of our distributors.
I planted this tree in May of 2013 and as you can see the tree 
went into severe shock, dying back from the ends of all of the 
branches.  The tree was boxed and did not have a very good 
root system, probably from being recently transplanted into a 
24 inch box from a 15 gallon bucket by the local nursery to 
improve their profit. Well the root ball fell apart from no 
structure and I thought I was going to have to replace it.  
At planting I had included; EndoMaxima mycorrhiza 
TerraPro and Protein Crumblies into the planting protocol.   
With the planting problem I extended the treatment protocol 
to include an application of EA, EN, and B1 every week for 4 weeks.  

Well the tree survived very well and you can see the results 
of the tree in December 2015.  A little wind damage from a 
very violent summer storm but the tree has more then doubled 
in size,  The one gallon Soil Secrets treated verbena also have 
matured nicely that are around the tree.

Soil Secrets successful again…..

Regards,

John Miller
Soil Secrets Distribution
520-240-1841  cell
SPEC Internaitonal, Inc.



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