Cutting Irrigation Water Use in Half
Mojave Desert pistachio grower has healthy and thriving trees even with limited water thanks to MultiFIX
Sonny began growing pistachio trees on five acres in California’s Mojave Desert, where summer temperatures regularly reach 115°-120°F.
Sonny’s irrigation system was not up to the task. It could deliver his pistachios only 12 gallons of water per tree per week. But Sonny contacted us at Advanced BioTech, gave his trees MultiFIX, and his orchard thrived. His neighbors were impressed with the very noticeable dark-green leaves and rapidly growing trees, and they didn’t know about Sonny’s irrigation issues.
“I saw a neighbor at the gas station,” Sonny told us. The neighbor said, “I know you. You’re the guy that’s making his trees grow really fast!”
“Are you putting a lot of water on them?”
“Not really,” answered Sonny. “I’m actually underwatering them. I’m only putting about 12 gallons a week on each tree…compared to some people who are running about 25. Same aged tree.”
Another neighbor and friend who helps Sonny is a lifelong farmer that owns 8,000 acres of alfalfa, pistachios and other crops. He is so impressed with Sonny’s orchard that he’s interested in also becoming a MultiFIX client.
“We got really good foliage last year, super bright green,” Sonny told us, “which is consistent with some of the [MultiFIX] videos that I’ve seen.”
Sonny’s impressive experience with MultiFIX is more proof that trees can grow rapidly and be healthy, even with limited available water.
Watch the one-minute video of Sonny describing in his own words about growing his pistachios with MultiFIX. Then be sure to contact us to learn what MultiFIX can do for your operation to build soil health and increase your farm income. The water savings alone can be more than the input cost of MultiFIX.
* Plant scientists at the University of California Davis say 2nd leaf trees require 105 gallons per tree compared to 12 gallons of water each week used by Sonny which represents an 88.57% savings.
Sonny One-Minute Video
Simply add MultiFIX to your irrigation water, fertilizer, herbicide or tree foliage — Benefit from substantial water savings!
Third Leaf Update
Sonny’s neighbor & long-time farmer converted decades of alfalfa crops to these nice Pistachio trees. The 12-year-old trees now use 480 gallons of water per tree per week. MultiFIX is in his plans for lowering NPK and water costs.
Sonny’s trees are thriving even with irrigation pump and flow issues choking back the amount of water applied. MultiFIX is the only variable that would create conditions for these trees to rapidly grow with only 12 gallons of water.
Fourth Leaf Update
As the trees continue to grow, the amount of water has been increased from 12 to 54 gallons per week. There are changes in soils and plants that cause more efficient use of water where MultiFIX is applied.
While all the mechanisms are still being studied, the actual amount of water is significantly less.
Contact us @ 559-651-5050 for details on water saving efficiency in soils and plants!
This almond and wine grape grower from Fresno county has 640 total acres for his farming operation. One year, his irrigation water well went dry on an 80 acre block of almond trees. Here he describes the condition of the trees and nut crop through the 45 days without irrigation water. Half of the 80-acre block of trees had been treated with the formulation of MultiFIX through the irrigation system. The 40-acre control block of non-treated trees had brown leaves and were extremely stressed. The 40-acre block of MultiFIX treated trees survived the incident very well, maintained functioning green leaves that perform photosynthesis to built sugars in the whole plant and crop. The dry water well occurred during the middle of summer with heat in Central California at temperatures exceeding 105° Fahrenheit. without water for several weeks, until he was able to irrigate them.