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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