gibberellic acid

[♦ snoopy ♥]

wasnt sure whether to put it in farming or here....


horticulturalists have used it for years... it is organic too.

gibberellic acid is the hormone the plant uses for active growth.

anybody used it???    sorry probly marj is the only one to ask... but go on... surprise me !!!!!   maybe dabs worm guy has used it before......

we thinking about having a trial with it on a few paddocks.  I have shut up 10 hectares for baleage....  yes at this time of the year!!!!  we being positive and proactive..

so might chuck it on these paddocks to have a looksee.

[bintyonekenobi]

never used it, let me know how it goes.

[Raven]

sorry, haven't used it - did try the hormone powder once or twice but my thumbs weren't green enough. My grandmother used it a lot tho, with great success.

I've even tried the honey 

Is the acid derived from willow? That's the other thing I tried, as it has the hormone growth in it - you soak the willow in water and use the water, I think?

wouldn't it be more for creating root growth than foliage growth - the hormone acid, or do different types concentrate on different areas of the plant?

[♦ snoopy ♥]

close WR but nope...

this is what it is -
Gibberellic acid (also called Gibberellin A3, GA, and (GA3) is a hormone found in plants. Its chemical formula is C19H22O6. When purified, it is a white-to-pale-yellow crystalline powder, soluble in ethanol and slightly soluble in water.

Gibberellic acid is a simple gibberellin, promoting growth and elongation of cells. It affects decomposition of plants and helps plants grow if used in small amounts, but eventually plants develop tolerance for it. Gibberellic acid stimulates the cells of germinating seeds to produce mRNA molecules that code for hydrolytic enzymes. Gibberellic acid is a very potent hormone whose natural occurrence in plants controls their development. Since GA regulates growth, applications of very low concentrations can have a profound effect while too much will have the opposite effect. It is usually used in concentrations between 0.01-10 mg/L.

GA was first identified in Japan in 1935, as a metabolic byproduct of the plant pathogen Gibberella fujikuroi (thus the name), which afflicts rice plants; fujikuroi-infected plants develop bakanae ("foolish seedling"), which causes them to grow so much taller than normal that they die from no longer being sturdy enough to support their own weight.