'Cloning' is Plant Propagation from Cuttings:
Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts and Rhizopon AA rooting products are used.
"Cloning" is just to take the cutting of a plant and grow it on it's own; roots will form and the new life of a 'clone' begins. This is no different from any other plant propagation from cuttings.
Propagation from cuttings is not a mystery.
Every year MANY MILLIONS of plants are propagated from cuttings. The science using rooting hormones has been around since the 1930's. Whether you buy a chrysanthemum plant, or a rose bush, there is a good chance that it was propagated using a Rhizopon AA rooting product or Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts rooting solutions. In Europe the only supplier of IBA rooting products is Rhizopon, headquartered in the Netherlands. Rhizopon AA rooting products available in the US are the same as those in Europe.
"Cloning" is "Plant Propagation from Cuttings".
Class 101: How to Get Clones from Your Cannabis Plants .. and more.Makers of costly 'Clonal Rooting' products (especially those associated with legal cannabis propagation) are locked into one way of doing propagation. They lead uneducated growers to believe their crop is 'special'. There are few 'special' crops that require unique materials to use in propagation. These products are costly because people 'think' they are better. YOU DON'T NEED A CLONING 'MACHINE'! (The makers give fake advertising .. costing you un-necessary money.)
Professional growers who produce crops in the millions a year have better experience then those who only propagate a few hundred or thousand plants. Rely upon the methods and products that have many years of effacy to propagate plants from cuttings. Rhizopon AA rooting products and Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts, and their methods, have proven to produce superior roots on cuttings and are cost effective.
Make your own inexpensive Cloning Rooting Gel (at any concentration!)
"Clonal propagation" of 'medical' and 'recreational' cannabis crops
The following information is suitable for the clonal propagation from cuttings of appropriate varieties of regulated 'medical and recreational' cannabis crops. Propagation of cannabis is subject to local laws and regulation; the user/buyer assumes all responsibility for use.
Disclaimers: The information given is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement for cannabis propagation in other than legal ways. For additional disclaimers reference the product Warranty.
To trial the propagation of most herbaceous cuttings there are a few ways to go.
The rate depends upon variety.
The Dry Dip Method:
> Rhizopon AA #2 or #3 (the most popular dry dip rate used by European propagators is Rhizopon AA #2)
Total Immerse or Spray Drip Down:
> Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts @ 100-250 ppm IBA
One successful protocol (given by a Colorado grower)
Use cuttings from the current growing season.
Soak the basal end of the cuttings, about an inch, into a solution containing Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts rooting solution @200ppm IBA, for about one hour.
Cut back a small amount of the basal tip.
Apply Rhizopon AA #2 or #3 by the Dry Dip Method.
Stick the cuttings
Use misting to maintain humidity as required and continue to maintain the crop.
Selection of Cuttings
Use cuttings from the current growing season.
It is best to use cuttings from cuttings in order to maintain cutting juvenality
Hints on Propagation
How to make a Rooting GEL
When making a gel based solution, use one of many standard gel products from your horticultural supply. You can also use corn starch from the food market.
Using Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts, mix in water to make a rooting solution at any concentration. Then, add the gel powder or corn starch powder to the rooting solution (warm solution temperature is best) until you get needed ‘gel peaks' or somewhat watery solution as needed.
The resultant 'concentration' is defined as ‘parts per volume’. The rooting 'gel' will be higher volume than the original water based rooting solution.
Ready made GELS HAVE ONE CONCENTRATION.
The corn starch approach is an INEXPENSIVE WAY to use Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts rooting solutions to make gels in an INFINITE range of rates.
Methods
Solution Methods: Spray Drip Down, Total Immerse Method, Quick Dip Method
Foliar Methods - special techniques
Dry Dip Method
Dry Dip Demo
Products
Rhizopon AA dry powder rooting hormones
Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts
Trial Rates
All products are Alcohol Free (Alcohol may cause tender cuttings to have phytotoxicity)
| Spray Drip Down and Total Immerse Method using rooting solutions |
Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts | 100-400 ppm IBA |
| Quick Dip Method using rooting solutions |
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| Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts | 500-1000 ppm IBA | |
| Basal Dry Dip using rooting powders |
Rhizopon AA Dry powder rooting hormones |
Rhizopon AA #1 (0.1) |
HORTUS IBA WATER SOLUBLE SALTS FACT SHEET
(download Fact Sheet)
Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts make fresh IBA, K-IBA rooting solutions for plant propagation from cuttings.This unique product is US EPA registered for use in greenhouses, nurseries, and technical programs.
• MAKING ROOTING SOLUTIONS: Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts instantly mix and make rooting solutions using only WATER to dissolve; the solutions are free of alcohol and active solvents. No mix agitation is done. The powders stay in solution to over 100,000 ppm K-IBA (IBA), and powders NEVER drop out! High rates can be used to make stock solutions for decanting into production tanks. Solutions are close to pH neutral.No other products and tech. IBA and K-IBA can be made into such stable solutions.
• STORAGE: Dry Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts in the original package have un-limited life. There is useful keeping life of solutions.
• SOLUTION METHODS: Use Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts rooting solutions by all Basal & Foliar Solution Methods with ZERO HOUR REI and no required re-entry PPE. Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts are used by any IBA or K-IBA solution method specified in technical literature or books and others. Ask your URC supplier, what Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salt rate they use in their own rooting stations. Methods: Total Immerse, Spray Drip Down®, Quick Dip. Total Immerse.
• DRY DIP METHOD: For rooting plant cuttings that effectively use dry dip rooting hormones, Rhizopon AA products are best.
• WORLD FAMOUS: Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts® are used to make IBA rooting solutions by the trademarked
Spray Drip Down; all rights are reserved. Products by other makers try to imitate, but are never successful.
Products and methods from our company have been used worldwide since 1939.
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