Vineyard manager Mark Seifert is seeing 2nd year growth on this vineyard block in the Carneros appellation that is usually only achieved there after 3 or 4 years.
The evidence is mounting that Phyto-Cat provides benefits to crops through two principle mechanisms.
1. Perfect functioning of the irrigation system making sure each vine gets the precise amount of water the farmer intends it to at the precise time they intended.
2. Improvement of the soil through oxygenation of the root zone. The same mechanism of gas transfer that breaks apart scale in the irrigation lines is continuing to work in the soil. Delivering more oxygen to the plant roots and aiding beneficial microbial life.
The combination of these two factors is delivering unprecedented results in perennial crops and the effects appear to be aggregate, increasing the longer Phyto-Cat is used in an irrigation block.