FOR BACKYARD GARDENS
Pour into a one-gallon jug (plastic or glass), one tablespoon (one-half ounce) of Sonic Bloom liquid concentrate. Add tap water with force. (Do not use distilled water.) Insert the tube of a misting spray unit and secure the stopper. Shake well. Turn the misting nozzle to fine.

Insert the cassette into a stereo tape player. If possible, turn treble to high and bass to medium. Set the volume as high as possible, without distortion (or disturbing your neighbors).

Let the sound play ten minutes before spraying your plants with Sonic Bloom. While you hear classical music, the plants will "hear" a hum that invites them to take in more air, water, and nutrients.

Carlson’s unique organic foliar feed includes giberillic acid (a plant-growth hormone), a seaweed extract, and some fifty-five trace minerals and amino acids. Aided by the sound, leaves draw in up to 700 percent more nutrients.

While the sound is playing, spray your plants thoroughly, so that both sides of the leaves are saturated, until the liquid drips from them.

For best results, let the sound continue twenty minutes after spraying. Treat houseplants once a week and flowering or fruiting plants twice a week.

Plants absorb the spray best when treated early in the morning (between 5:30 and 9:30 a.m.)

Do not spray plants when the temperature drops below 52 degrees Fahrenheit. If it is cold early in the morning, spray Sonic Bloom on plants after 4:30 p.m.

Dew, mist, or heavy fog is ideal weather for applying Sonic Bloom.

All young seedlings of vegetables and flowers should be treated once a week for the first three weeks, then twice a week thereafter until harvest.

For head lettuce, wait until the head begins to roll up before spraying.

Fruit and nut trees
To obtain maximum fruit set and size, spray fruit trees:

once before buds form,
once when buds have formed but not opened,
once when flowers are fully opened,
once when approximately one-third of the flowers have fallen off,
once when fruit or nuts have formed (about fifteen days after flowers have fallen off)

FOR COMMERCIAL APPLICATION
Use twenty ounces of Sonic Bloom in forty gallons of water (not distilled) at forty pounds pressure, spraying at least five times in a growing season, or about every three weeks.

How to treat corn, soybeans, or alfalfa
To cover one acre of ground, for every six ounces of Sonic Bloom mixture add twelve gallons of water with force for proper agitation. Mount the sound unit, with the speaker facing the rear, on the highest point on the back of your unit, with the speaker facing the rear, on the highest point on the back of your sprayer, using duct tape to attach the unit. The system is designed so the sound waves will assist the sprayed plants to absorb the greatest amount of nutrients. The sound unit must be on while you are spraying. Turn the volume all the way up.

Spray as early in the morning as possible. Each sound unit has a photo-cell activator, so it must be daylight before it can be used effectively. If you wish to start before dawn, there is an override switch to activate the unit. Do not spray when the temperature drops below 52 degrees.

Sonic Bloom sound boxes of different sizes can be rented from Dan Carlson Scientific Enterprises.

-- Appendix F, Secrets of the Soil, 1989