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Gardening Area => Growing questions and answers => Topic started by: Sunshine on November 12, 2013, 06:56:47 AM
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What is a good inert powder to 'cut' 99% pure 3-indole-butyric acid? I'm planning on ordering a 5 gram vial of some but I think it would be wasteful to dip cuttings directly into it. I would like to cut it down to double or triple what the main rooting gel(roottech) on the markets content is(.55%) with some type of inert powder. I thought about using flour because it's cheap and readily available but I think that once it's wet it might get infected with yeast and ferment.
Since cedar oil has antimicrobial properties if I could somehow blend it into a fine powder, like say in a coffee grinder, I think it would work great to cut the 3-indole. I could just blend them at a 200mg to 1g ratio and end up with a 2% IBA rooting powder with antimicrobial properties.
What do you guys think?
Comments are more than welcome.
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Dry rooting hormone often uses cellulose as a metabolically inert powder. You could also use talc.
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