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SUPER
SONIC! Dan
Carlson Breaks Barriers with Sonic Bloom
Mary Wynne
I had read the articles—Dan Carlson develops Sonic Bloom,
a plant growth product which utilizes an oscillating
frequency of bird and cricket-like sounds along with an
organic foliar spray. I
had heard the amusing stories—Dan Carlson grows a purple
passion plant one tenth of a mile long using Sonic Bloom and
winds up in the Guinness
Book of World Records.
I even tried Sonic Bloom in my own garden—my hot
pepper plants, for instance, produced twice as much per
plant in thirty days less time than the previous year.
Yet, it wasn’t until I spoke to Dan that I
understood the realm of possibilities for his sound-enhanced
growth system. In
short, he has missions for Sonic Bloom that make landing on
the moon seem frivolous. In his own words, Dan Carlson has a
“blueprint to end world hunger.”
According to Carlson, Sonic Bloom is simply “sound aiding
in the absorption of an organic foliar nutrient.”
The theory behind his product is that plants open
their surface pores or stomata when stimulated by certain
sounds. During
and after a serenade of pulsed chirps and whistles (for the
plants) mixed with various classical music selections (for
the humans) the spray, consisting of 55 trace minerals,
amino acids, and seaweed, is sprayed on the plant’s
surface. This
odd, but highly successful, treatment system has lead to
increased publicity and profit for Carlson.
However, it is clear when talking to this world-renowned
inventor that his focus is not on material success or
international fame. He
is more interested in proving the limitless abilities of
Nature to support all existing life and heal the wounds of
human error. “It’s
exactly what we need at this time.
This planet wants to save itself.”
Carlson’s “blueprint” begins with a solid
foundation and expands into almost mind-boggling
proportions.
“We’re definitely developing some techniques that can
carry this from A to Z,” says Carlson. “One is we’ve
been working with a sprout company called Sprouts
Extraordinaire out of Longmont, Colorado.
The reality is we have found that sprouts, alfalfa in
particular, increase in weight by 1200 percent in 72 hours.
We take a seed, soak it in Sonic Bloom, play the
sound, and 72 hours later we have an edible sprout.
Our sprouts get almost a 30-day shelf life instead of
three or four days.”
“We believe that within six to eight months, we will
produce a shipping container, 8-1/2 feet wide, 8 feet tall,
40 feet long, totally self-contained, that will make
sprouts. We
believe that it will produce 5,000 pounds of sprouts per
week, 260,000 pounds of food per year.
You can reuse the water and if you divide 260,000
pounds by 1,200, you will find that you will only need a few
hundred pounds of seed to do this.
Now think what ten of these containers could do.
Ten of these would do 2.6 million tons of food and20
would do almost six million tons of food.
And one container would only cost $10,000.”
Carlson’s plan doesn’t end with feeding sprouts to the
hungry. He
understands that sprouts aren’t the most nutritionally
valuable crop available.
He also acknowledges that sprouts would not be
culturally acceptable in all parts of the world.
His idea also includes the use of other staple crops
such as mung beans. Once
he is able to bring a reliable source of food to people and
show them how to produce the food themselves, his plan
mushrooms into a bright new future for millions of people.
“First, you go into the devastated areas with the sprouts
to make people strong enough to then plant the vegetables
and grains with open pollinated seeds (amaranth, quininoa,
corns) with Sonic Bloom,” continues Carlson.
“Then they get to eat the vegetables and grains
that are much more highly nutritious and have kept their
stress resistance. (Experiments
done with Seeds of Change and Sonic Bloom in the Sudan,
Kenya, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe showed survival in 130-140
degree temperatures and 2-1/2 inches of rain.)
Then, you put in fruit trees and if you watch my
video, you’ll see I’m getting fruit on first-year trees.
Things like three-year-old Santa Rosa beauty plums
are getting 6,000 pounds of fruit on a three-year-old tree.
Lastly, the reason I’m living on a nut farm, is
that we want to bring in nut trees.
But, if you plant enough threes, you also change the
weather. The
trees will change the precipitation in these areas to feed
the people.”
Carlson also understands that people fed with nutritious
food from their own land will not only help those societies
to live, but to flourish.
“Any child that undergoes malnutrition doesn’t
have the mental ability to be as smart as its parents,” he
says. “If you
go in and bring all this food, you’re going to change the
mental abilities, thus allowing these people to lead
themselves ‘out of the land of Babel.’”
The Sonic Bloom plan does not end there.
Carlson also believes his product can help to cure
one of Earth’s most detrimental environmental ailments –
deforestation. In
Mexico, Carlson has started a tropical hardwood nursery for
rare tropical trees. He
has also brought Sonic Bloom to Papua, New Guinea, where he
hopes to help improve the teak, ebony, and rosewood harvests
while providing slash-and-burn farmers with alternatives to
growing food in poor soil.
Carlson even includes the psychological and spiritual well
being of people in his plans.
He feels that giving all people, regardless of their
age or geographic location, the ability to grow crops
successfully will add to their mental health.
“The beauty is watching the twinkle in some 35-75
pound child’s eyes when they raise a 400-pound pumpkin,”
states Carlson. “We
believe that then they will always be involved in
agriculture and their self-esteem and self-love will go up
like crazy.”
Dan Carlson has watched his Sonic Bloom create amazing
transformations like this for years.
Reports of double- and triple-sized harvests come
from as far away as Europe to as close as his own nut farm
in River Falls, Wisconsin.
Oliver Doubleday, a strawberry farmer in rural
England, consistently reports triple yields with Sonic
Bloom. The
Circle K Apple Orchard, just six miles from Carlson’s
farm, also reports triple-sized harvests.
In addition, the orchard is reporting an eight-month shelf
life and a vast increase in nutrients.
“When we did our analysis, we came up with 1750
percent more zinc, 400 percent more iron, 326 percent more
chromium, and 126 percent more potassium.
All of these things being key ingredients in
longevity, health, and mental activity.”
The orchard also finds that the number of apples lost
to disease and insects is reduced by over 80 percent.
“This is not an unusual situation,” says Carlson.
“The Sonic Bloom system raises the trace element
and complex sugar content of plants.
Those changes make the plant much healthier and less
susceptible to attack by diseases and insects.”
Carlson continues to make discoveries that leave even him in
a state of awe. “One
of our greatest breakthroughs to make everyone understand
how easy it is to feed large amounts of people involved a
sucker on a tomato. A
sucker is normally a sterile branch which appears in between
a side shoot and the main branch.
Our tomato plants grow two inches a day so if we
allow a sucker to grow for seven days, it’s about 14
inches long. If
we then cut it off, put it in the shade, and spray it once a
day with a ¼ ounce per gallon solution of Sonic Bloom, in
10-14 days, it becomes fully rooted and starts to grow two
inches per day. Fifty-five
days later it is 7-9 feet tall.
Now normal production on tomatoes is 90 days.
“We’re doing this in less than 55, plus we’re
producing at least twice as much fruit in almost half the
time.”
Carlson’s stories have not fallen on deaf ears.
Not only are his sales and reputation growing, his
international prestige is on the rise as well.
“Because of my success in England, I am going to be
lecturing to Parliament and we have a major university that
is doing some testing.
I have just returned from Japan where I was the
keynote speaker for the Bio-Research committee, which
consists of 8,000 organic farmers.
The day before I lectured, the people who had success
with Sonic Bloom told the great body of organic farmers and
researchers their success stories.”
The Japanese were so impressed with Carson that he
received an award from the Minister of Finance, as well as
news coverage in 25 of Japan’s leading newspapers.
The Bio-Research committee declared that Sonic Bloom
is the best plant growth product they have found and will
help distribute it across their country.
Keeping up with Japan and England, China is also
courting Carlson. He
will be leaving in October 1993 to speak to Chinese
officials about developing their agriculture.
Unfortunately, Carlson remains virtually ignored by the
United States government as well as by the American
mainstream research community.
“Our problem here is that we are paying farmers not
to grow. If you
watch my video, I will show you 100 percent increases on
many mainline crops. I’m
a multi-billion dollar nightmare for our government because
we are paying farmers not to grow while I am doubling
yields.” Common
sense also suggests that without using pesticides,
herbicides, and other agri-business dependencies, Sonic
Bloom will have the same “hard row to hoe” as solar
energy and the light rail system.
Nevertheless, Carlson remains the eternal optimist.
Of course, optimism is nothing new to Carlson.
It took him twenty years to perfect the sound
frequencies and nutrient combinations needed to make Sonic
Bloom more than the average fertilizer.
The drive for perfection came from his own close
encounter with hunger.
In spite of his serious efforts and intentions, Carlson is a
jovial man who is having a lot of fun with his success.
World leaders aren’t the only ones catching on to
Sonic Bloom. Celebrities
such as Harrison Ford, William Shatner, and Eddie Albert are
also reaping the benefits of Carlson’s product.
John Denver’s environmental group, Windstar, has
also been very supportive of Sonic Bloom.
“They came out here (Carlson’s farm) and helped
me pick the nuts because after I sprayed them, there were so
many nuts I just couldn’t get enough labor to pick them.
Then they came back this summer and helped me plant
more.”
Carlson’s success is also moving him into the world of
television by way of the ever-popular and star-studded
infomercial, the commercial advertising that lasts several
minutes to a half hour.
He hopes this new marketing strategy will propel
Sonic Bloom into a future of bigger and better plants, and
stronger and wiser people.
Like the plants that are sprayed and serenaded with Sonic
Bloom, Carlson’s product can do nothing else but grow.
To get a glimpse of Sonic Bloom’s worldwide success
(after all, seeing is believing), Carlson distributes a
120-minute video filled with the amazing sights (and sounds)
of his product.
--
Llewellyn’s 1994 Organic Gardening Almanac
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