Simon Torrisi · Watermelon Farmer
Supermarket buyer called to compliment, not complain, on Brix 40% above the chain's minimum. A separate on-camera interview adds yield, water and fertilizer numbers from one season.
Conducted by On-camera interview with Simon Torrisi, published by President Water 16 August 2020.
- LOCATION
- Western Australia
- PERIOD
- Multi-season Brix reports; video interview published 16 Aug 2020, covering one season against the one before it
- EQUIPMENT
- PW Vortex Generator
From the site, on camera
Read the underlying report
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CITATIONTorrisi, S. (2020). See what Structured Vortex Water did with watermelons, yield up with less water and fertilizer. President Water Channel, YouTube, published 16 August 2020.
What the trial measured
Yield, water and fertilizer, one season on camera
THE STANDOUT RESULT- Torrisi estimates the season discussed came in roughly 10 to 15% ahead of the previous season's yield, under similar weather.
- He attributes up to about 5 percentage points of that gap to falling behind on picking pace and keeping up with volume, so the net gain he describes sits toward the lower end of that range.
- He reports using roughly 10 to 15% less water over the same season.
- Soluble fertilizer use was cut by about half, down to what he describes on camera as six to seven grams. The interview does not specify the unit or application method behind that figure.
- Reason given for the fertilizer cut: at the higher rate the vines were growing too vigorously and too vegetative, which he considers a problem on its own.
Fruit quality and market
- Quality described as exceptional that season: good internal color and a notably crunchy texture.
- No trouble moving the crop. His words: the markets were really happy, with no problem selling any of the produce.
- Separately, and not from this video, Torrisi has reported his fruit consistently testing at Brix 14, against a supermarket chain's stated minimum acceptable Brix of 10, which prompted the buyer to call and compliment the result. No date or document backs that claim; it is published here as previously supplied client testimony.
Return on the device
- Torrisi says the unit paid for itself within one season, by his own account a few times over, even before counting the added value of the yield increase.
- No dollar figures, purchase price or savings calculation are given on camera.
“The supermarket buyer called, not to complain, to compliment. Brix consistently 40% above the chain's minimum.”
This is the shortest and least formal account in the case study library, a two-and-a-half-minute interview, not a trial or a metered install. What makes it worth publishing is that the numbers line up with each other: less water and less fertilizer alongside more yield, the combination growers actually want and the hardest one to fake by accident.
The fertilizer story carries a specific, checkable reason. Torrisi says he cut soluble fertilizer because the vines were overgrowing at the old rate, not because a bill got expensive. That is a different kind of evidence than a grower backing off inputs to chase a marketing claim.
Read the Brix claim and the yield, water and fertilizer claims as two separate accounts from the same grower, not one dataset. Nothing here was measured by anyone but Torrisi, on his own farm, with no control and no lab behind either claim.
Trial at a glance
- OPERATION
- Watermelon grower, Western Australia
- VIDEO PUBLISHED
- 16 August 2020, President Water Channel
- COMPARISON
- One season against the season before it, grower's own recollection
- MEASUREMENT
- None. Entirely observational, stated on camera
- CONTROL
- None
President Water Company · presidentwater.com · Simon Torrisi · Watermelon Farmer, Multi-season Brix reports; video interview published 16 Aug 2020, covering one season against the one before it