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Hormone rooting powder - sell by date??
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from "Mike Lyle" contains these words: I know I'm not alone in thinking the freshness of your rooting powder probably has little to do with your success rate. Few species actually need it, and -- especially if you use too much -- it can even _hinder_ rooting. I think light, temperature, moisture level, and medium are usually more important. It's also easy -- or it is if you happen to be as casual as I often am -- to put in your cuttings in such a way or such a medium as to leave an air gap underneath or around them: this is asking for failure. We shall see... A kind urgler sent me some Worcesterberry cuttings last year and they went in to a bed I have to pass to get to the back door, and because of its position, easy to shade. No rooting hormone used. A neighbour cut off some forsythia and added it to the litter (leaf and twig!) in the hedge down the loke, and I took a few cuttings from that and just poked them in. No rooting hormone. I've never found rooting hormone to affect how cuttings strike - neither the speed of it nor the reliability. All the cuttings - Worcesterberry and forsythia appear OK ATM. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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