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Introduction to Rhizopon AA Water Soluble Tablets
See also Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts

Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts- Your #1 Source for IBA & Source for KIBA Buy IBA Now!
(indole butyric acid) Make water based rooting solutions.
Replaces Technical IBA K-IBA and "Dip" type alcohol based pre-mixes

Important Notice to growers who have purchase(d) Technical IBA and K-IBA from LAB SUPPLIERS: he US EPA issued a 'STOP SALE ORDER' for all un-registered IBA and K-IBA from one or more LAB suppliers. The 'Stop Sale Order' DOES NOT APPLY TO PRODUCTS ON THIS WEBSITE: Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts & Rhizopon AA dry powders and Tablet products, US EPA registered and still available from your favorite horticultural suppliers. For distributor referral and distributor purchases call Phytotronics 314-770-0717, or email sales@phytotronics.com

The Rhizopon AA Water Soluble Tablet packagePropagate Plants from Cuttings Using Solutions.

Take plant cuttings, usually stem, root or leaf cuttings. Woody cuttings are usually wounded by making a 3/4" notch at the basal end. Herbaceous cuttings are not wounded. Make up a fresh Rhizopon Water Soluble Tablet solution using the appropriate concentration. Using the Spray Drip-Down Method first plant then treat. Using the Immersion, Quick Dip, or the Total Immerse Method first treat then plant. Take care of the cuttings.

Herbaceous plants, such as chrysanthemum, are easy to treat using low concentrations by the Spray Drip Down Method or Total Immerse Method. The Total Immerse and Spray Drip Down methods can be used interchangeably. The active ingredients are absorbed into the leaves and stems the transported to the basal end where it induces root formation. The active ingredients are transported through the phloem to the basal end. It induces cell diffusion and root induction in the presence of oxygen and water. These methods retard bud formation; the cuttings to put their energy into root formation.

The Spray Drip Down Method

Spray Drip Down Method.

First plant the cuttings then treat them. Spray the solution evenly over the cuttings until drops go down to the media.
Herbaceous cuttings
, chrysanthemum, begonia, dieffenbachia, heath, hibiscus, etc: 1-5 tablets per liter water.

The Total Immerse Method


Total Immerse Method.

First totally immerse the cuttings in the solution for a few seconds then plant them. Broad leaf cuttings are especially suited for this method. You can use a basket to dip the cuttings in a tub. Prevent bruising by not placing too many cuttings in the solution at once. Allow time for the solution to dry on the cuttings before watering, misting or covering. The temperature of the solution should be at least equal to the cutting temperature. A cold solution temperature causes the stomata of the cuttings close; the amount of active ingredients absorbed is reduced.
Herbaceous cuttings, chrysanthemum, plumbago, ivy, clematis, delphinium, lavender, ficus, potted rose bushes, etc.: 1-5 tablets per liter water.
Softwood cuttings, hydrangea, pieris, hedera, etc: 1-6 tablets per liter water.
Hardwood cuttings, conifers, etc: 4-10 tablets per liter water

The Basal Immerse Method


Basal Long Soak Method

Use the Basal Long Soak Method on cuttings which are more difficult to root or are more woody. A long soak of the cuttings in a low concentration solution causes the plant tissues to absorb the active ingredients. Use this method on plants which may be sensitive to high concentration used in the Quick Dip Method. Immerse the basal end of cuttings approximately one inch in the solution for 12-25 hours nominal. Plant the cuttings immediately or cuttings can be stored  in cold storage.
Rhizopon AA Water Soluble Tablets:
Herbaceous cuttings:
1-3 tablets per liter water.
Woody cuttings: 3-5 tablets per liter water

Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts:
Herbaceous cuttings: 50-150 ppm IBA

Herbaceous and Woody Cuttings, including hard to root cuttings and rootstocks: 150-250 ppm IBA

Basal Quick Dip Method


Quick Dip Method

First treat the cuttings then plant them. Immerse the basal end of cuttings approximately one inch in the solution for a few seconds. Plant the cuttings immediately. Use the lowest possible concentration of tablets to achieve the desired results. An excess concentration may result in a reduced numbers of roots formed, phyto toxicity, shock, excessive callus, and rooting inequality.
Herbaceous cuttings, tropical plants, house plants, roses, etc: 3-10 tablets per liter water.
Chrysanthemum: 4-10 tablets per liter water.
Softwood cuttings: 20 tablets per liter.
Hardwood cuttings: 40 tablets per liter.
Difficult to root hardwood cuttings: 100-400 tablets per liter.

 


Rates

Rates:SprayDripDown&Total Immerse Methods   Rates: Plant List and Methods 
Rates: Dry Dip Method   Rates: Basal Long Soak Method 

 
Product Selection to make fresh Rooting Solutions

RHIZOPON AA WATER SOLUBLE TABLETS
Use the pre-dosed tablets with water to make your own freshest solutions in any concentration.
You measure the dosage by simply counting tablets and mix into water. A scale is not needed.

HORTUS IBA WATER SOLUBLE SALTS
Use the easy to measure powder with water to make your own freshest solutions in any concentration. You can make solutions to over 100,000 ppm IBA active ingredients. The Salts are an economical for making large solution volumes. Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts is an easier to use and registered replacement technical IBA and K-IBA.

RHIZOPON AA WATER SOLUBLE TABLETS and HORTUS IBA WATER SOLUBLE SALTS are completely free of potentially phyto-toxic and flammable alcohol. You make solutions from very dilute to extremely concentrated. The solutions are odorless. Both are US EPA registered with WPS Zero Hour REI. Growers can apply the products and remain in the growing area. There is minimum PPE with no notification requirement. 

 

VIDEO: PROPAGATION USING A ROBOT
Robot Video


VIDEO: STENTING ROSES IN A COMMERCIAL GREENHOUSE.
ROOTING AND GRAFTING AT THE SAME TIME

Stenting: the Movie


ANIMATION: HOW AUXINS WORK

Animation Auxin Utilization

ANIMATION: HOW TO MAKE AND USE
THE RHIZOPON TABLET COUNTER

Animation Rhizopon Tablet Counter


Download Tablet Counter

ANIMATION: BASAL LONG SOAK METHOD

WHEN STENTING GRAPE CUTTINGS

Animation Basal Long Soak Method


ANIMATION: HOW TO USE WATER SOLUBLE TABLETS
How to use Water Soluble Tablets


SIMPLIFIED METHODS

Special Ideas for Propagation

PLANT SELECTION CHARTS

Plant Selection List

Special Techniques

 

Techniques

Plant List: Selection Charts
Select the proper rooting hormone for the specific plant variety.

The Cuttings

Cutting selection
The selection of proper cuttings from stock plants can be critical to successful rooting of cuttings.
Types of cuttings
Many types of plant cuttings which can be used to propagate new plants.
Care of cuttings after treatment
You must take care of the plant cutting after rooting hormone treatment.

Improve growth of rooted plants
Apply rooting solutions to bare roots of transplants
Stimulate plant cutting which are difficult to root
Use Rhizopon when air layering
Mix rooting solutions with other growing agents
Mix fertilizers with rooting solutions

The need to use Plant Rooting Hormones
Why NOT to use alcohol to dissolve rooting hormones

Rhizopon AA #1, #2, #3 dry dip powders
Ready to use plant rooting dry powders
Rhizopon AA #1, #2 and #3 dry powder rooting hormones
Dry powder rooting hormones are used by the dry dip method.


Rhizopon AA Water Soluble Tablets
Mixing Rhizopon AA Water Soluble Tablets
You can prepare your own fresh plant rooting solutions using pre-dosed Rhizopon AA Water Soluble Tablets.

Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts
You can prepare your own fresh plant rooting solutions using easy to measure IBA powder.
Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts Label & Mixing Instruction
Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts Method
 

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YODER BROTHERS
and ARIS Horticulture, Green Leaf Plants, are the world's leading growers of all types of Chrysanthemums: garden, pot and spray and perennial plants. Follow this link for ways they use and recommend Hortus IBA Water Soluble Salts


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Yoder-HortusIBA Recommendation (PDF)

 
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