Fruit size caught up by harvest, Brix reached 17–22, and annual input applications fell from 3+ to 1.

Within three days of Crop Booster installation, Gabe Alvarez reported that the treated trees appeared healthier and the plum fruit began increasing in size. By harvest, the fruit had reached the same size as fruit in the farm's other fields, allowing the fields to be harvested together. The KPCB plums measured 17–22 Brix compared with the producer's normal 15–17 Brix range.

Crop Booster was installed approximately nine days before harvest in a plum field that was reported to be underperforming in fruit size. The producer observed healthier-looking trees and increasing fruit size within three days; these are visual observations rather than instrument-based plant-health measurements. By harvest, the fruit was reported to have reached the same size as fruit from the farm's other fields, but no fruit diameter, circumference, weight, size grade, or sample counts are supplied. The KPCB fruit measured 17–22 Brix compared with a producer-reported normal range of 15–17 Brix. Because both values are ranges, no single percentage Brix increase is calculated. The producer reports using one application of nitrates, fertilizers, and herbicides that year compared with three or more applications normally. Comparing one application with a minimum baseline of three represents at least 66.7% fewer applications; however, no actual fertilizer, nitrate, or herbicide quantities, rates, active ingredients, or pounds per acre are supplied. Therefore, this page does not claim a 67% reduction in fertilizer volume or total agrichemical use. Approximately $74 per acre in input-cost savings is source reported. The source also states that harvesting the field together with the other fields saved labor costs, but no labor-cost amount is supplied, so no additional quantified labor savings are claimed.

Why this matters for plum growers: This Alvarez Harvesting case is notable because Crop Booster was installed only about nine days before harvest in an underperforming field. By harvest, the producer reported that fruit size had caught up with his other fields, the plums measured 17–22 Brix, annual input applications were reported at one instead of three or more, and approximately $74 per acre in input costs was saved.