Cherry tomato plants each producing 860 tomatoes, bell pepper plants producing 35-50 large peppers each, alfalfa crops producing 7.9 tons per acre (3 cuttings) with protein content of 29%, three well-formed ears of corn per stalk. Impossible? Not with the use of Sonic Bloom. 

Sonic Bloom is the result of years of study by Dan Carlson of Dan Carlson Scientific Enterprises, Inc., of Blaine, Minnesota. While stationed with the U.S. Army in Korea in 1963, Dan was appalled by the poverty and starvation he saw daily and the tragic results of this to many families. It changed his life, and when he returned to Minnesota, he vowed he would try and do something to help solve the world hunger problem. 

Mr. Carlson attended the University of Minnesota and studied at the College of Experimental Studies. He first worked with giberillic acid, an exotic plant stimulant that had been shown to stimulate plants to grow ten times larger than normal. The problem was that this only worked in about 3% of the plants. There had to be a reason for this low percentage and Dan was determined to discover why. He spent hour after hour pouring over all the literature he could find on plant growth and in an obscure article he discovered that studies showed that plants seemed to "breathe" better and got healthier when subjected to a 3,000 cycle hum. He reasoned that if they could breathe better, then they should be able to take in more nutrients at the same time. In later experiments using a combination of sound and giberillic acid, 99% of the plants responded. 

Dan's first experiment with his Sonic Bloom was with a purple passion plant which he purchased from a local store for 88%. The plant was 4-1/2" tall. With the use of the sound and nutrients, the plant grew to a total of 1,300 feet. The normal purple passion plant grows to 18 inches. Dan's plant is in the Guinness Book of World Records at only 660 feet (they wouldn't come back and measure it again because they said no one would ever break his record)!

Four hundred cuttings of the plant were sold at a local flea market with a guarantee that they would be replaced should they die. (Dan's own plant is now 17 years old and still going strong.) About six or seven months later, Mr. Carlson began receiving calls, not because the plants had died, but in cased had grown to over 100 feet. He discovered that once plants were treated over a period of time, they continued their extraordinary growth without treatment. 

Dan Carlson next experimented with cherry tomatoes and green pepper plants. The results were astonishing. Where a normal tomato plant produces an average of 50 tomatoes per plant, the treated plants produced 860 healthy tomatoes. Likewise, pepper plants normally producing 5-6 peppers per plant produced between 35 and 50 well-formed peppers. 

Sonic Bloom has been tested in 30 states and 7 foreign countries, all with the same spectacular results. Treated crops include alfalfa, corn, cauliflower, barley, tomatoes, etc. Affidavits on the results of many of the projects are available. Gabriel Howearth of New Mexico has experimented with Sonic Bloom on seeds as well as on plants and found that the results are similar. Treated seeds have been provided to Save the Children for use in drought and famine-plagued areas of the world and have been found to be very productive. 

Harold Aungst of Pennsylvania used Sonic Bloom on his alfalfa fields. Using no herbicides, pesticides or expensive chemical fertilizer (manure was used), he obtained a staggering 7.6 tons per acre with a net profit of $446.75 per acre. Cost per acre of the treatment was $50. Some of the plants measured over five feet tall. Aungst also reported that he fed his cows the alfalfa, using one third less feed than he normally did with the average milk production of 9,300 pounds per hundred weight as opposed to his usual 6,800.

Also successful with the Sonic Bloom was Pennsylvania farmer Aaron Zimmerman. He produced bales of alfalfa each weighing 37-1/2 pounds. On the treated acres, he realized 93 bales per acre and on the untreated only 37 bales. 

The Sonic Bloom system consists of a solution of 55 trace elements and amino acids along with certain oscillating high frequency sound. It contains no harmful materials and improves the taste and texture of foods. Application is relatively simple and special sound units for large areas are available. For home and garden use, there is a cassette tape. 

The future implications for Sonic Bloom are astounding. It is possible that with widespread use of the sound and trace elements in plant production, there may be a solution to the world hunger crisis. 

-- Southwest Feed & Livestock Report, January/February