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More on HLB Citrus Disease and its natural control and prevention

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Scientists are developing ways to detect diseased trees and are working on GMO varieties of Citrus. They are also working on better understanding the disease as well as ways to control and remove the pest. This is all very good but I believe they are missing the most important part and that is too better understand why the bug (any bug) attacks the tree (any tree) and why it doesn?t. In the car of the citrus, if the bug does not attack the tree (for whatever reason), the tree will not get the  disease. There is a big difference between an organic grower and a conventional grower, one of which is that the organic grower keys into the health of the soil, including it micro-biological citizens. One of my radio shows is called ?It?s Alive!? and its based upon the fact that the bacteria eat first and the poop of the bacteria is what the plants eat. The bacteria take minerals and convert them into compounds that are assimilated by the plants root hairs. The bacteria actually live on the root hairs of the plant. Without these two things there is no healthy plant: minerals and bacteria. All insects have evolved to deal with minerals and bacteria. When one or they other is missing, then the plant becomes a better food source for the pests and or for diseases since many pests spread diseases (disease can also be spread by humans, winds, weather, birds, other animals, cats, dogs, etc). One developed the ability to actually see the difference when plants are mineral deficient and the plants will also have low carbohydrate levels (excellent food source for insects is one that has no carbohydrates).

More on Brix and its relationship to Minerals, Pests and diseases

A famous scientist who was also a good cook, developed the refractor and one of the things that eventually became to be used for was wine production, beer protection etc as well as various scientific uses. Ernst Abbe (1840?1905) was his name. Using a refractometer, one can easily determine the Brix level of your fruit or juice. You can also measure your vegetables such as lettuce etc since it will also read the Brix levels in the plant.

There out my past 58 years as done my business and being a speaker from schools to the Cancer Prevention Society to Many radio shows, I have managed to learn a few things and one day when I was giving a talk to a group of scientists  and I started talking about minerals and  Brix and what I thought could be the relationship high Brix and less pest, one scientist named Phil Callahan and I started talking (he wrote many books but one in particular called ?Tuning into Nature?. We ended up talking about Brix levels and how not I was right about Brix and Minerals but that the higher the Brix, the higher the carbohydrates! At that time I did not put it together that insects cannot digest carbohydrates until several years later (at another talk), a very nice lady was in the audience and she commented that most if not all insects cannot digest carbohydrates !  Bingo?.

More on GMO and what everyone should know

We need to be careful when passing a law demanding that all GMO be labeled. I will explain in my next article.

You can hear this article live on my latest radio show.

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 Andy Lopez

Invisible Gardener