Sonic Bloom or better, Plant Magic^®, to Grow Black Walnuts for Fun and Profit

Using Sonic Bloom, you can change the investment period for black walnut veneer sawlogs from 50-100 years to 15-17 years, move forward the onset of nut production from twelve to only six or seven years, increase the nut size, quality and yield significantly, and provide a far more lucrative market for the nuts as high performance seedlings. Intercropping will provide early revenue to offset the costs of establishing the plantation.  Endangered trees will be propagated and you will be eligible for Carbon Credits and Energy Tax Credits.

Don't have a large acreage or farm? Perhaps you have space around your house or on a small piece of land.  You can still take advantage of the leverage that Sonic Bloom provides even if you plant only ten trees. After 20 years, you will have sold the nuts from ten trees for about $12,000 (less the marketing fees) and these trees can be harvested for veneer at $10-20,000 each for about $212,000. How many other trees in your yard are bringing in this kind of cash? And with so little work on your part?

Do you have an acre of land? You can plant 250 trees 10 X 18 feet apart. The revenue from this should net about $300,000.over a 20-year cycle. Quite soon you will be earning more than a little money from your foresight. 

How soon could I start earning this kind of income?

Actually, since these trees produce so well, you might begin to realize an income within 6-8 years.  Planted at the birth of your children you would have more than enough to send them to whatever college will accept them.  Money is no problem.

Then, in their 17th year, the trees can be harvested as veneer logs at $10-20,000 each.....if you just would like to buy that RV and travel.  Or continue milking this cash cow for the next 50-100 years.

Normally, these seedlings are sold in lots of 200 for $5000.  Smaller quantities can be purchased through a grower consortium in which people pay for a given number of trees and when the necessary 200 are purchased, they will be shipped, depending upon availability. Contact us to be placed on this list.

Eastern black walnut (Juglans nigra L.) is said to be an excellent choice for use in agro-forestry systems for several reasons. It is commercially valuable due to the market both for its nuts (on a continual, short-term basis) and high-quality wood (normally in a 50 to 100 year rotation). It has good growth and shade characteristics, and a relatively short growth period. It loses its leaves early in the fall, so that intercrop species benefit from sunlight. The root structure tends to be compact and deep, reducing competition with intercrop species. The market for black walnuts is said to be far from saturated, and the prospects are good for developing species producing higher nut yields. Nut production will depend on the strain of tree and soil quality, but is projected to range between $11 and $330 per year.

Although black walnut tree has been a high-return timber crop for decades, few plantations have been established. Many factors contribute to the lack of interest by landowners. One factor is length of the investment period. Like all other investments in timber plantations, years must pass before cash flow becomes positive. ¹ 

Sonic Bloom is a relatively unheralded agricultural technology that has been tried and tested in the laboratory and in the field for more than twenty years.  Scientists in the US, Canada, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and other countries around the world have established with their research that Sonic Bloom really works.  The growers in the orchards, fields, paddies, plantations, vineyards and gardens of over 100 countries already know that.

Tucked away in the St. Croix River watershed of Wisconsin is the largest organic nut tree-breeding farm in the country. Started in 1917 by Carl Weschcke, a nut breeder and head of the Northern Nut Growers for a number of years, the farm is comprised of hardwood nut trees from mountain ridges all over Europe and America.  Trees were grafted and cross-pollinated; some were even patented. Over 128 varieties of hard nuts are there including 19 varieties of walnut, 20 varieties of hickories, 18 varieties of hick-cons, hazel-berts, pecans, and chestnut. Endangered trees being preserved are the American Chestnut and butternut and hearth-nut.

When the farm was purchased in 1989, the nuts were the size of a quarter, a few on the trees. Now after 13 years of Sonic Bloom, the nuts are the size of oranges, growing up to five in a cluster. The larger the nut, the better and faster growing are the seedlings. The leaves had been the size of an index finger. Now the seedling leaves are the size of the palm of the hand. Larger leaves expose more surface area to sunlight and therefore produce more nutrition. That produces a larger root system to add the necessary water and minerals for optimum growth.
 
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On his Minnesota plantation, Dr. Brian Zins planted black walnuts in 1989 and began using Sonic Bloom immediately.  Now these trees and seedlings are growing 500% faster than normal. Normally a black walnut trees grows 0.3 inches in diameter each year. With Sonic Bloom these trees grew 0.8 inches in 1996, 1.25 inches in 1997, 1.56 inches in 1998 and recent measurements have shown that they are growing 2.5 inches a year.  What was once thought to be a geometric growth rate seems instead to be exponential. Therefore a tree worth $10,000 to 20,000 ² that takes 50 to 80 years to reach maturity can now grow to maturity in 15 to 17 years. At 250 trees/acre  (assumes tree spacing of 10 x 18 feet; close spacing makes the trees compete for sunlight and grow tall and straight). An early harvest yields $2.5-5 million at the usual price for a veneer log.  Forty acres of black walnut plantation at harvest is worth $100-200 million.

Sonic Bloom achieves this astonishing growth rate by optimizing plant nutrition using sound and a foliar spray of natural plant growth enhancers, trace minerals, and other natural nutrients.  Eight or even nine growth flushes typically occur during one growing season, which is like growing eight or nine years in one season.  The wood remains fine-grained because of eight or nine growth rings in one season.  Further, the wood is 95% heartwood so there is less waste when peeling it to make a veneer.⁵

Typically, black walnut trees bear nuts no earlier than their twelfth year. Annual nut production increases as the crown widens and reaches its maximum at about 30 years…Nuts sell for about $0.07 per pound.³   The market for black walnuts is said to be far from saturated, and the prospects are good for developing species producing higher nut yields. Nut production will depend on the strain of tree and soil quality, but is projected to range between $11 and $330 per year.¹

The nuts from Sonic Bloom-treated black walnut trees are much larger than normal and the trees begin nut production in their seventh year rather than their twelfth year.  The nuts of the Sonic Bloom-treated trees typically are found in clusters.  More significantly, however is the growth characteristics of the seedlings that come from these nuts, from these parent trees—the F1 seedlings grow faster with multiple flushes/season as though they were treated with Sonic Bloom.  This implies that there is some genetic elasticity to permit the optimization of genes without actually changing them.  This seems to fly in the face of genetics principles but has been demonstrated repeatedly.  Then when subsequently treated with Sonic Bloom the F2 generation shows still more optimization.  Therefore the walnuts in the Sonic Bloom-treated plantation are far more valuable as planting stock than as food.  After being sprouted in raised beds with removable sides, the seedling trees are sold to a ready market at $20-22.50 each (less a breeder fee and commission to the marketer)..  From the onset of nut production, the Sonic Bloom-treated black walnut averages about 10 nuts in the seventh year and 15 nuts/tree in the eighth year with increases at approximately 50% each year until it reaches maturity producing 300 nuts/tree in year 20. In a mature 40-acre plantation of 10,000 trees averaging 300 nuts per tree, the total production would approach 3 million nuts.  Three million seedlings grown from those nuts in the following season would have a value of over $60 million/year.  Some of these can be invested in another plantation, and yet another to obtain a sustained yield.  Even as food, in a Sonic Bloom black walnut plantation the premium nuts would generate an income of at least $1M/year.

Then, of the harvested nuts, only half of them will germinate in the following year, the other half the year after that. Of the germinated and grown seedlings, 10% will be of inferiority quality and eliminated by culling. One-fourth of revenue is set aside for overhead expenses of harvesting and growing the nut into a quality high-performance seedling.