Natures Own Growing System

Do you know how to measure plant quality and know when you have poor or excellent quality plants?

Refractometer

Food quality is easily determined by using a refractometer to measure the brix of plant Juices. The brix scale on a refractometer is a measure of the dissolved solids in the juice from your plant product. Most of the solids are carbohydrates in plant juices, but vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and other plant produced compounds are also present in the plant juice.

The main thing you want to remember is the higher the Brix value, the higher the nutrient content in your plants, and the higher the plant quality. High Brix means high plant quality and higher mineral content. Low brix means low plant quality and lower mineral content.

We recommend this refractometer click here to test the quality of your fruit and vegetables.

A reader in New Zealand writes:

Hi,

I’m a newbie to understanding Brix and the growing of high quality produce. I have not done a lot of searching back through your files to date but will.

I have a question unrelated to my own situation at the moment. In the New Zealand Kiwifruit industry they pick commercially, the fruit is harvested mature-ripe when its soluble sugars reach 6.5 brix on a refractometer.

If I am talking to a grower and tell him he can grow higher Brix levels in his, he would likely say he would then pick earlier, as the industry requires this. The thinking process, I presume, is that they would not store if picked too late. I do know that High Brix produce does store longer but not sure how to explain this point of view.

I have had this comment from apple growers as well.

Your thoughts?

Thanks
Grant

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Grant,

You are dealing with a couple of different meanings concerning brix here. Your growers are not recognizing brix as something equated to quality, but are using brix as a measurement to determine when it is appropriate to harvest a fruit. Kiwifruit, Apples, and Grapes are often harvested when they reach certain brix levels. Those growers use a refractometer for those purposes.

However, they do not recognize that Brix “equals” quality. The Kiwi fruit growers don’t use brix as a means of determining quality, but use brix as a means of determining when to harvest their fruit. Continue Reading »

Product Catalogue

Our Affordable Gardening Supply Products, which we call Natures Own Growing System, include Organic Gardening Kit, BioVam Mycorrhiza, Biosol Mix 7-2-3 Organic Fertilizer, Planters II Trace Mineral Fertilizer, Yucca Extract, Microbe Tea Brewing Kits, Pre-Brewed Microbe Tea, Bio-Peat moss and mushroom compost, Zeolite, Organic White Gold Bar Soaps, Just Like Sugar Natural Sweetener, and Spider Elimination Kits (spider traps). Most of these products are used to grow high brix plants which are high in plant nutrients (mineral and vitamin) content.

PlantersII Ten Pound Bag

Planters II Mineral Fertilizer.

 

Using Planters II you will be able to see results in the regular growing season in the form of increased plant vigor, a larger root system, increased drought resistance, increased chlorophyll, higher protein in grains and hay, larger grain heads, better flavor in fruit and vegetables, higher yields, and better soil tilth.

The mineral is a highly metamorphosed fresh water evaporate of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian geologic transition period. It is approximately 30% water soluble in the first hour, the balance becoming available during the normal crop season, a natural timed released fertilizer.

There is no geological name for the mineral. The minerals are plant available, non-toxic (LD50>4gms/kg), they do not leach from the soil, and are size compatible with the current fertilizer spreaders (-6+12 mesh), weighing approximately 84lbs/cu ft in granular form. Continue Reading »

Natures Own Soil Life One Gallon Tea Brewer

Natures Own Growing System Tea Brewers are manufactured by T&J Enterprises.

The ingredients in Natures Own Growing System Soil Life Tea Brewers consist of high performing Aerobic and faculative soil bacteria which fix nitrogen from the air, solubalize minerals, and reduce organic material into plant food.  Trichoderma fungi are also present in our Tea Brewing Kits. Weekly applications of Natures Own Growing System Soil Life Tea (after brewing for 24 hours) to your plants and soils helps sustain the production of nutrients for your plants at high levels.  Our soil life tea will encourage your plants to raise their shields against pathogens before they can gain entrance to your plants. This product was designed by T&J Enterprises to work in conjunction with our BioVam product which feeds the nutrients into your plants’ roots and with our two Organic fertilizers (Biosol Mix 7-2-3 All Purpose Fertilizer and Planters II Trace Mineral Fertilizer). Continue Reading »