I'm absolutely sold on the mycorrhizae, everything that I plant or transplant
I've been using it on, the plants establish faster and with less stress.
- Jim King, User Group, April 2006
For the last while I have been running tests trying to get cuttings to grow roots. While I am still working away at it I wanted to post some of the more interesting results as they come up. One of the more more interesting results has been that some products (plant hormones) work best with short applications others are effecive if when used until a cuttings has developped its roots.
During the tests Super-grow has found that these procedures give the best
results for getting plant cuttings to grow roots:
Yam Cuttings Treated with 0.54 PPM Brassinolide for 30 Minutes
I had some very interesting results using Brassinolide at 0.54 PPM
with 6 yam cuttings. Two where not treated, two where treated for 15 minutes
and two were treated for 30 minutes. The cuttings were put in a glass with the stems in the
0.54 PPM brassinolide and the leaves where left out of the
solution. After that the yam cuttings were rinsed in water to remove
excess brassinolide and put in clear water.
The untreated yam cuttings had no roots and one even died. Only one of the yam cuttings
treated for 15 minutes had roots. Both yam cuttings treated for 30 minutes had roots.
Cloning Mint With 160 PPM IBAK
10 Minute Treatment
40 Minute Treatment
I had some very interesting results using IBAK at 160 PPM
with 9 mint cuttings for 10, 20 and 40 minutes.
The cuttings were put in a glass with the stems in the
160 PPM IBAK for the 10, 20 and 40 minutes and the leaves where left out of the
solution. After that the mint cuttings were rinsed in water to remove excess IBAK
and then put in clear water.
The mint cuttings with a 10 minute 160 PPM IBAK treatment don't have any roots
while 2 of the 40 minute 160 PPM IBAK mint cuttings have 1 or more roots.
Only 1 of the 20 minute treated cuttings has a single root.
Cloning Yam With 160 PPM IBAK
Untreated Cuttings
Treated Cuttings
I had some very interesting results using IBAK
at 160 PPM on 12
yam cuttings for 0, 30 and 60 minutes. The cuttings were put in a
glass with the stems in the 160 PPM IBAK for the 30 and 60 minutes
and the leaves where left out of the solution. After that the yam
cuttings were rinsed in water to remove excess IBAK and then put
in clear water.
The yam control cuttings (not treated with IBAK) are on the left
and the 60 minute test cuttings on the right. All the control
cuttings have a few roots growing while two of the three test
cuttings have a whole forest of thick roots. One test cutting
has no roots at all. I also found that the 30 minute treatment
gave even better results than the 60 minute treatment.
Cloning Willow With 300 PPM IBAK
No Treatement
30 Minute Treatment
The rooting compound IBAK continued to show how powerful it is
when I tested it with willow cuttings. The test cuttings were put in a glass with the stems in the
300 PPM IBAK for 30 minutes and the top where left out of the
solution. After that the willow cuttings were rinsed in water to remove excess IBAK
and then put in clear water. I tested 5 cuttings and compared them with 5 cuttings that
were not treated.
Of the 5 untreated willow cuttings only one had any root development and that one had very short roots.
Of the 5 IBAK treated willow cuttings 3 had roots and they roots were much longer.
Follow Up Test
A second test was run with 2 groups of 5 cuttings. In this test none of the untreated cuttings
developed any roots while all of the cuttings treated with IBAK at 300 PPM for 30 minutes
had root developement.
With the two tests combined 8 of 10 treated cuttings developed roots while only
1 of 10 untreated cuttings had roots.
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