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Inside "BioVam Grown" Organic Vineyard Grapes
When
we look at the fruit taken from BioVam treated plants, and compare it to
fruit taken from untreated plants, we see several significant
differences. With BioVam treated plants the fruit:
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Contains thicker skins.
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Has much more flavor.
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Is more uniformly sized in the
fruiting body.
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Is larger as individual grapes and
collectively in the fruiting body.
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Have a greater percentage of seeds
in the fruiting bodies.
Seed
counts:
Here's what we found in our sample of
clusters taken from separated and random locations in the grape rows of
treated and untreated Chardonnay plants, on 8-11-1999:
These
are seed counts and percentages of the number of grapes with 4,3,2,1 seeds
per grape:
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Untreated:
450 grape berries taken from four clusters of average size on different
plants.
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Treated:
490 grape berries taken from four clusters of average size on different
plants.
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| Seeds per
grape |
How many |
Percentage
of total |
| 4 |
7 |
1.55% |
| 3 |
43 |
9.55%
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| 2 |
135 |
30% |
| 1 |
265 |
58.88% |
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Seeds per
grape
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How many |
Percentage
of total |
| 4 |
10 |
2.04 |
| 3 |
74 |
15.1 |
| 2 |
193 |
39.39 |
| 1 |
213 |
43.47% |
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As
you can see, there appears to be a trend towards a higher count of seeds
per grape berry in the grapes taken from the treated plants.
Click on pictures to
enlarge.
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This
picture taken on 6-9-99 shows Chardonnay fruiting bodies with the BioVam treated on the right and the untreated on the left.
The fruit from
the treated plant is larger and has a thicker stem. These mature
grape plants were treated with three teaspoons of BioVam Mycorrhiza at bud
break.
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The above pictures taken 6-9-99,
are cross sections taken from the above fruiting body stems. The
picture on the right is from the BioVam treated plant. There is
already a significant difference at this early stage of growth in the
phloem sieve tubes,
the cambium,
and xylem vessel count and size
and the
xylem tissue size. This is
a
result of having BioVam applied
at bud break on these 15-year-old mature plants.
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The above Chardonnay grape fruiting
bodies were collected 7-17-99. The three on the left are from
untreated 15-year-old Chardonnay grape plants.
The three on the
right are from BioVam treated 15-year- old Chardonnay grape plants.
The treated plants had larger fruiting bodies and the grapes were
larger. There was a considerable difference in flavor already
developed in the BioVam treated grapes over the untreated
plants.
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The
above two pictures were taken on 7-17-99 and are from untreated (on left)
and treated (on right) Chardonnay grapes shown just above these two
pictures. The thicker skin in the right picture is the primary
reason for the much higher levels of flavor found in grapes collected from
the BioVam treated plants. These pictures were taken while the
microscope was set at 200X. During taste testing, the thicker
layers of skin on the BioVam treated grapes were quite noticeable.
The flavor from just one green grape taken from the BioVam treated plant
remained in one's mouth for several minutes.
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The
Chardonnay
grapes on the right, collected 8-11-99, show the untreated on the left and
the BioVam treated on the right. The treated cluster is more uniform
and has consistently larger grapes present. On the average the
treated clusters were an inch longer than the untreated clusters. |
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The
pictures above are cross sections taken from Chardonnay grapes collected
8-11-99. Untreated grape is on the left and BioVam treated grape is
on the right. The epidermis is clearly quite a few times thicker on
the treated grape. The layer underneath is also much better
defined. The flavor from the treated grape is easily 5-6 times
greater in the treated grape and lasts for several minutes from just one
grape.
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Natural Organic Products that Work!
Our Affordable Gardening
Supply Products, which we call Natures Own Growing System,
include
Product Brochures,
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.
People interested in these products are back yard gardeners, farmers, farm crop
management, flower growers, home and garden supply companies, house plant
growers, landscapers,
lawn care companies,
plant nursery owners,
organic
farming,
organic gardening, urban gardeners, and those who wish to pursue
container gardening methods. Those interested in bettering their diets and
health use our products to grow highly nutritious foods.
The application of these
products supports agriculture soil in general but has many specific applications
on this web site for arborvitae,
artichokes and asparagus,
apple trees,
asparagus fern,
black leaf fungus on quaking aspen trees,
bulbs and flowers,
cactus,
celery,
chard,
chrysanthemum,
citrus trees,
cotton,
cosmos,
cucumbers,
eggplants,
fairy rings in lawns,
frost protection on Asian pear
fruit trees,
garlic,
growing fruit trees,
herbs,
lettuce,
maple trees,
melons,
necrotic ring spots in lawns,
onions,
pansy,
peas,
pears,
promotion of earthworms in the soils,
potatoes, pumpkins,
raspberries, radishes,
red hot chili peppers,
rose plants, turf grass management of blue
grass and all other kinds of grasses,
spinach,
stone
fruit,
strawberries,
sugar cane,
tomatoes,
wine grape, vine and vineyard management,
zucchini and squash of all kinds,
many different vegetables and several
thousand other specific plants - virtually everything grown on farms and in
gardens aimed at plant and root enhancement. Numerous pictures are present in a
variety of exhibits.
Contained in these products are soil life forms that are often found in some
compost tea brewing kits but are much more effective in our
BioVam Mycorrhiza product and our
Microbe Tea Brewing kits. Organisms like, mycorrhiza fungi (endomycorrhiza
fungi and ectomycorrhiza fungi), nitrogen fixing bacteria, phosphorous
solubalizing bacteria, and bacteria that out compete plant pathogens are found
in our BioVam product. Nitrogen fixing bacteria, cellulose eating trichoderma
fungi, and many beneficial soil organisms are found in our Microbe Tea Brewing
Kits.
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