Phred
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Thanks for the info Ray. I was told to use it only once. I was also told it did not have to be refrigerated. I think it has alcohol as an ingredient... maybe that helps.Fred,
Dip n Grow is a relatively concentrated synthetic hormone solution of 1% indole-butyric acid (IBA) and 0.5% naphthalene-acetic acid (NAA), the same ingredients as Dyna-Gro K-L-N (which has 0.07% and 0.1%, respectively). As such, it is subject to the same decomposition issues with warmth and light exposure, so keep it refrigerated between uses.
As it is that concentrated, be very careful with your applications. Too concentrated, or applied too frequently can result in stunted growth or deformed flowers.
Thanks Ray... I’ll refrigerate it. Do you have an opinion on its use with seedlings? It would be 2+ years after compot before flowering?The problem with the synthetic hormones is that, while they are pretty stable in their "virgin" form, in order to make them water soluble, they must make them into mineral salts. That particular formula utilizes ethanol and isopropanol as the solvents, but the solubility requirement is still there. DO refrigerate it - it doesn't HAVE TO BE, but the bottle will last longer if you do.
Very easy to understand Ray... thank youIt'll have a similar effect on them, I'm sure. What you're doing is "spiking" cyclic, natural, plant hormonal activity - roughly equivalent to "giving it steroids", if you will.
As plants grow, the apical meristem of the roots emit cytokinins that travel up the plant and stimulate shoot growth. As the shoot apical meristem grows, it emits auxins that travel down the plant and stimulates root growth. When you dose the plant with auxins (that's what the IBA and NAA are), you unnaturally stimulate the root growth rate, which, in turn, results in the boosted production of a lot of cytokinins that stimulate shoot growth. Both processes are accelerated, going back-and-forth, restimulating each other, but each cycle is a little less intense than the previous one, so most plants return to "normal" rates in somewhere between two- to three weeks, or so. (Hence the reason I recommend using such treatments no more than once per month in established plants.)
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