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Growing Pecan Trees in Western Alkaline Soil

It's common to see nutrient and water inhibition compromise the production of pecans in the arid western states, particularly where the soils are high pH, which can tie up nutrients such as zinc, iron, phosphorus and more.

Keeping soils moist is also a problem because the regions were we grow pecan are not wet bottomland soils where pecan is native, but are high and dry desert soils where irrigation is essential.
If the irrigation water is high in dissolved solids, the problem is made worse.

Pecan leaves without Soil Secrets

There are many good things Soil Secrets can offer pecan growers that can overcome these obstacles, by improving the moisture management of the soil, improving nutrient solutioning and availability of both the native minerals as well as the purchased minerals, and improving the porosity of the soil so that water and oxygen can penetrate meters deep without the need to subsoil with machinery.

How's this done? By using the power of Nature's own bio-chemical called the Carbon Matrix.

Pecan leaves without Soil Secrets
Starting in 1998 and completing my research in 2011, Michael Melendrez, his technical staff, along with the technical staff at the two National Laboratories in New Mexico performed a purification and molecular study of the Carbon Matrix where we revealed the molecular characteristics of it for the first time.

As a result of this research the information on what it is and how to make it is owned by me, the founder and CEO of Soil Secrets.

The product that contains it is called TerraPro. I'm attaching photos of trees treated and not treated with our protocol and it's obvious who got the benefit of TerraPro.

If you would like more information on TerraPro and our company, please contact us!
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