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Home-made rooting hormone, and how to do you do?
    #19000322 - 10/19/13 03:54 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Recently purchased these pure plant hormones from ebay:
25g Sodium a-naphthaleneacetic acid, (NAA) 99%,
10g Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) 98% Auxin Plant Hormone.

These are the same active ingredients in popular plant rooting products.
Most products say they contain about ~1% of these chemicals in a medium.

iam wanting to make a gel, because i think that will work best.
Iam presuming that more hormones than just 1% will work better.

Here is my theoretical recipe;
~5g liquid oil of choice
~5g cocoa butter
~2g beeswax
~0.5g 40/60 mixture IBA/NAA

Would this work tobe about ~4.7% active ingredient rooting hormone gel?


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Re: Home-made rooting hormone, and how to do you do? [Re: ellomello]
    #19000470 - 10/19/13 04:32 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

My understanding of IBA percentage in rooting products is that 1 percent is enough for most applications (soft wood). More difficult to root plants like hard wood cuttings would require higher concentrations up to 3 percent. I could be wrong but more isn't necessarily better however some people choose to buy the hormones as it is much cheaper to make especially if you use it a lot.


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Re: Home-made rooting hormone, and how to do you do? [Re: modern.shaman]
    #19000727 - 10/19/13 05:41 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Thanks, i was thinking that too... Makes sense that they don't add more.
UN-sure about my measurements, but if it is around ~4% IBA/NAA mixture,
then it is only around ~2% of each hormone, so that sounds about right.


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