So, I’ve been looking at rooting hormones after revisiting this PermaClone blog post:
Scroll to the section with three suggested hormone additives. The “Rhizopon AA Salts” intrigued me because I like dry products over liquid. But, ignore this product name, the correct product name is “Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts”.
It is a water soluble form of IBA, called K-IBA or IBA-K. Potassium indolebutyric acid. 4-indole-3-butyrate potassium. C12H12NO2K.
I searched here and found two or three mentions of it:
Hortus website: http://www.hortus.com/IBAsalts.htm
PowerGrown website: 100 Grams Water Soluble indole-3-butyric Acid 99.9% (IBA-K) with instructions | Power Grown
The Hortus says it’s 20% IBA-K. The PowerGrown is 98%+ IBA-K (five times more concentrated). I’m not 100% that it is the exact same thing.
Basically, I’m wondering if anyone else is interested and wants to help sort out exactly how cost effective this is. And what rate it should actually be used at. Eg: If it’s 0.15g per gallon, and 100g of Hortus is basically $100 USD (Close to $200 CAD all said and done, conversion/duties/shipping) then is this actually worth it or would it end up costing more than something like Dyna Grow KLN or Hormex Hormone Liquid (both of which are also difficult to find - certainly in canada - or just very expensive).
It must be the potassium version to be water soluble. The non potassium version needs 70%+ alcohol to dissolve (eg: I think dip and grow is alcohol based). I don’t want that.
Hortus Makes a calculator, and customhydronutrients sells Hortus and has an abbreviated table of the calculator that seem to jive. However, the article I posted a couple posts back about rooting and IBA in general suggests a concentration of 3000ppm (or 0.3%) IBA for basal quick dip application for cloning.
If you figure out how many grams per liter (or gallon, but using liters makes more sense for ppm calculations…right?) you’d need to get 3000ppm… it kinda makes me think this is not a cost effective thing at all - BUT that’s assuming using an aerocloner that would hold about 2 gallons of water (7.57 liters), and 3000ppm target. But maybe you don’t need 3000ppm for a solution in an aerocloner where it’s going to stay and be sprayed on plant stems for a long time. The 3000ppm is for a 5-10 second stem quick dip.
Trying to figure this out.
Thanks.
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