Yesterday I took the family out to eat at a Chinese place. My son got a plateful of lemons for our water. I noticed an extremely thin skin on some of the...
Hi Jon, I find the thing with the thin skin lemons interesting. I've noticed that the thin skin lemons seemed to have better quality in the sour part of the...
Hello, Thanks for the lead, Jon. I live in the Twin Cities and called the Saint Paul office of Asian Foods. They get their lemons from one of two sources,...
Nataraj, Thin skin lemons will be higher brix. In RBTI Dr. Reams was after the juice of the lemon. Thick hard lemons found in the grocery store just don't...
Would it be a good poor man's test of brix in the grocery store to just bring a bucket of water with you and dunk samples of each produce item you are thinking...
Actually you can learn to feel by the heft of something whether it feels heavy for its size or not. I've done that for years with grapefruit or oranges or...
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:20:57 -0400, Kris Johnson RR ... Tis' so. I think some years ago I told the story here of the Mexican fruit seller I met down in the...
Dr. Joseph Manthei, who was primarily involved with Dr. Reams' health programs (RBTI), once shared a brief story of his personal gardening. Here it is, along...
I was listening to a 30 year old taped lecture by Dr. Reams and heard him talking about the mineral content difference in fruits and vegetables grown under...
Hi Rex - We have repeatedly seen higher weights in high Brix produce. Latest was a melon producer in Hawaii who found that their boxed shipments were shipping ...
John Marler
jmarler@...
Oct 26, 2006 4:08 pm
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Subject: Some outstanding brix results using angstromcides, the next generation after nanocides! I want to share a typical results from 1 of 500 farmers that...
... John, This is my first post here but have been 'lurking' as they say for a while now and just reading. I understand the connection of good food to soil...
Hi Louise, I can understand your confusion. Unfortunately just being organic doesn't require that you do an intelligent job of fertilizing. You can use all...
Louise, Let me try to answer your question, even though I'm no brix expert. I'm still growing low brix food despite my best efforts to date, but I've eaten...
Bob, First of all, let me say (and not to be mean here) that I find great comfort in the fact that despite your best efforts to date that you still grow low...
Louise, I first was introduced to the use of a refractometer when I was doing experiments with our BioVam mycorrhiza product on grape plants. When I started...
Louise, ... like they say (2-3x's more), but organic at the same time is usually low brix, albeit, still a higher low brix than conventional, like you all say....
... organic grower will have a higher brix, but sometimes I run into a conventional grower who produces some really good apples, better than a lot of the...
Tom, Needless to say, I don't grow any of that stuff. My beloved zucchini plants are long gone. But I can vouch for the fact that your Biovam is one thing that...
Louise, One thing I forgot to mention. Every grower, whether conventional or organic, has brix/quality variation right in his own crops and therefore right in...
Bob, BioVam is only one part of a "team" of products I use to grow high brix plants (along with some procedures to use earthworms to amend my soils from ...
Wow! This is the first I've heard of Trichoderma. Seems like a _very_ interesting little bug. I did a little search on Google. I wonder how one can obtain...
In the last few weeks I have found a few products that really tasted great and had high brix from our local grocery store. Here is what I found: Bosc Pears...
why would anyone eat seedless grapes. kinda strange someone on this site would indulge in this manganese depleted freek. timmy [Non-text portions of this...
lataa8@...
Oct 30, 2006 9:41 pm
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:33:59 -0500, ROBERT HARTMAN <rhartman2003@...> ... Your statement would probably get quite an argument from Dr. Reams, the ...
I am a new subscriber to this group & I have enjoyed the coming mails which have increased my interest in high brix produce, & recently I purchased a...
Hasan Mahmood Shami
nahdigr@...
Oct 31, 2006 2:32 am
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That was news to me. Tell us more. Kris ... From: <lataa8@...> To: <BrixTalk@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 4:35 PM Subject: Re:...
Timmy, My high brix grapes (26 brix at harvest) are called Reliance and are seedless. I've tasted lots of different kinds of grapes and have yet to find...
Robert, Most plant root penetrating mycorrhizae are not host specific especially if we are talking about endomycorrhiza (commonly known as VAM or AM fungi). ...
It's interesting that the government nutrient data base shows regular grapes at about 33% of DV for manganese, while seedless grapes are about 5% for ...
