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Sunshine

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A good inert powder
« on: November 12, 2013, 06:56:47 AM »

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.
« Last Edit: November 12, 2013, 07:06:28 AM by Sunshine »
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Mandrake

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Re: A good inert powder
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2013, 02:09:28 PM »

Dry rooting hormone often uses cellulose as a metabolically inert powder. You could also use talc.

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