Joe Johnson · ABC Organics & Dole Fruit Strawberry Field
A California strawberry grower and microbiologist describes two structured-water observations from a Dole Fruit Company field: a roughly 20% Brix jump within 48 hours of one watering, rising above 9 a week on and reportedly accelerating soil microbial activity, and a separate Brix gradient running the length of the field from a buried unit. Entirely verbal, with no instrument log or sampling protocol shown on camera.
Conducted by Video interviews with Joe Johnson of ABC Organics at a commercial strawberry field operated by Dole Fruit Company (per President Water; not stated on camera), the second alongside host Adam Abraham and photonic-water specialist Jeffrey Riggins. No trial protocol, sampling methodology or measurement dates stated on camera in either video.
- LOCATION
- Port Hueneme, California (Dole Fruit Company field, per President Water)
- PERIOD
- Undated. Reported observations span installation to roughly three months on in the first interview, plus a separate 48-hour and one-week Brix comparison in the second
- EQUIPMENT
- Buried President Water structuring unit, referred to on camera as a structuring unit
From the site
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CITATIONJohnson, J. (undated). Strawberry Fields Revisited: Structured and Photonic Water Field Observation. Video interview, ABC Organics, Port Hueneme, California. Johnson, J. and Riggins, J. (undated). Dole Fruit Company & ABC Organics: Field Observation, How Vortex-Structured Water Boosts Nutritive Quality in Commercial Strawberry Operations. Video interview with host Adam Abraham, ABC Organics, Dole Fruit Company field, Port Hueneme, California.
What the trial measured
Brix compared across two plots, on camera
THE STANDOUT RESULT- On camera, a handheld refractometer compares Brix readings between two adjacent plots in the same field: one given a single watering with structured water, the other untreated.
- The structured-water plot was lower grade at sampling, described as second choice and rejected at that morning's harvest for size or color, while the comparison plot had matured undisturbed for a couple of additional weeks.
- Despite the lower grade, the structured-water plot tested roughly 20% higher in Brix within 48 hours of that single watering.
- One week later, in a phone call that was not filmed, Johnson reported the structured-water area averaging Brix readings above 9, higher, he says, than the best readings recorded anywhere in the field before the unit was installed.
- No comparison of berry size, yield or fertilizer status is made in this video.
- Proposed mechanism: Johnson describes structuring as an energetic rather than chemical change to the water, comparing it to rainwater accumulating atmospheric charge before it falls.
- Johnson separately reports, verbally, that structured water appears to accelerate microbial metabolism in the soil, which he links to faster, hardier plant growth. Not shown or measured on camera.
The reported gradient down the field
- Brix readings of roughly 10 to 12 in the area receiving water from the unit.
- Readings taper by about two points moving down the field, falling to roughly 4 to 6 at the untreated far end, described as back to normal.
- Berries in the treated area are described as two to three times larger, with up to three times the sugar content.
- A visible line of demarcation sits roughly 1,000 feet down the field from the unit.
- The effect is described as extending across the field even though the device sits buried roughly 15 feet from the point of comparison.
- No instrument readout, logged dataset or sampling protocol is shown on camera for any of these figures.
Production after fertilising stopped
- Local growers stop fertilising once the fresh-market and cannery windows close, and production normally tapers.
- The section near the unit continued full production for roughly three weeks after fertilising stopped.
- The rest of the field, outside the unit's reported range, yellowed and declined as expected for the time of year.
- Both areas were equally unfertilised for that period.
Reported timeline from the first interview
- A roughly 20% jump in Brix, about two points, reported within 48 hours of a single watering after installation.
- Three months after installation, the treated area's average sugar is reported to have roughly doubled against its pre-installation baseline.
- Johnson says that level has held consistent since.
- No dates are given for any of these measurements.
“A visible line of demarcation roughly 1,000 feet down the field separates the two areas.”
Strawberries are a Brix crop. Sugar sets the grade, the price and the shelf life, so a grower talking about a 20% swing is talking about money in a way that a turf manager talking about liters is not. Two interviews, filmed separately, both report a fast Brix response to a single watering with structured water.
The result worth sitting with is the second interview's plot comparison: a handheld refractometer, on camera, showing a 20% Brix gap between two adjacent plots within 48 hours of one watering, in fruit that was already graded lower. Johnson's own explanation for the mechanism is energetic rather than chemical, an analogy to rainwater picking up charge as it falls. That is a proposed mechanism, not a measured one, and it has no established support in mainstream soil or plant science.
The first interview tells a slower version of the same story: a gradient in Brix, berry size and production running down the length of one field from the buried unit, with a visible line about a thousand feet out. If that line is real and repeatable, it would be straightforward to sample properly, with a logged dataset and marked points instead of a camera crew.
What neither video proves: there is no instrument log, no randomisation, no independent sampling, and no control for the other variables that run down a field, soil, irrigation, microclimate, plant age. Both interviews describe a similar 20%-in-48-hours figure through different setups, and nothing here confirms whether that is one effect recalled twice or two separate occasions. This is testimony, not data.
President Water's own executive summaries flag one further point, clearly marked there as interpretation rather than an on-camera claim: if these reported Brix gains held up under controlled, replicated testing at commercial scale, they could plausibly support a meaningful increase in bottom-line value for a large operation, more fruit meeting premium grade, and reduced fertilizer spend. That is President Water's reading of the numbers, not a claim Johnson or Riggins make on camera, and it still needs economic modelling and independent trial validation before it means anything.
Trial at a glance
- OPERATION
- Commercial strawberry field, Port Hueneme, California
- FIELD OPERATOR
- Dole Fruit Company, per President Water; not stated on camera in either video
- EQUIPMENT
- Buried structuring unit, described on camera as a structured or photonic water device
- FIRST INTERVIEW
- Within one field: near the unit against the untreated far end, roughly 1,000 feet away
- SECOND INTERVIEW
- Two adjacent plots: one watered once with structured water, one untreated comparison
- BRIX METHOD
- Handheld refractometer on camera in the second interview; stated verbally with no readout in the first
- FERTILIZER
- Stopped across the whole field once market windows closed, roughly three weeks before the first interview
- DATES
- Not stated. Both videos are undated
- CONTROL
- None independent. The far end of the same field, or an adjacent untreated plot, serves as the comparison
- FORMAT
- Promotional videos featuring the installer or its applications specialist alongside the grower
President Water Company · presidentwater.com · Joe Johnson · ABC Organics & Dole Fruit Strawberry Field, Undated. Reported observations span installation to roughly three months on in the first interview, plus a separate 48-hour and one-week Brix comparison in the second