Re: [Aroid-l] Gbberellic acid and BIG OOPS!!-Sherry Gates

From: "E.Vincent Morano" <ironious2 at yahoo.com> on 2009.08.06 at 22:57:32(19650) Well these chemicals are present in all plants to some degree or another. They arent really chemicals so to speak. They are plant growth hormones that have been extracted from plants and or synthesized. Some of them are synthetic man made and have similar molecular structure to the natural thing. A lot of fruits and vegetables we eat these days are treated with many types of plant hormones. Like seedless green grapes. Remember when they used to be round? Now they are oblong. This is because they were treated with GA3.GA3 causes flowersetting with out the need of the flower being fertilized and therefore no seeds. With the orginal round grapes, which were bread to have no seeds, you still get occational seeds and un uniform grape size. Now days in the stores here in America, you will see large oblong seedless grapes and finfing a seed is nealy impossible. The GA3 increases cluster and berry size. GA3 has a tendancy of making plants grow tall a,d thus you get the untural oblong grapes in stead of the normal round ones. I said all that to basically say this. These hormones or most probably safe orelse they would not be sprayed on the friuts and vegitables we eat. Furthermore these hormones are fond naturally in plants in very low parts per million. When you are spraying the plants you are also spraying them in parts per million, although much higher then normal and therefore you get the abnormal and sometimes monsterous plant growth. The hormones also degrade very quickly after being sprayed on the plants and are exposed to air and sunlight. They are often mixed with fulvic acid to aid the plant in absorbing it before it dries. I refuse to participate in the in the recession. --- On Wed, 8/5/09, Sherry Gates HTML +More wrote: From: Sherry Gates Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Gbberellic acid and BIG OOPS!! To: "Discussion of aroids" Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 12:06 PM Hi all, I don't know anything at all about any of these chemicals, but it made me wonder... what effect might any/all of these chemicals have on someone (or their future children...yikes!) if they were regularly exposed to them, whether inhaled (fumes I suppose?) or accidentally splashed on their skin or their clothes? Could any of these chemicals cause possible genetic problems if a child was concieved after one or both parents had been previously exposed? I'm honestly asking, I have no idea. Meanwhile, I'm sticking to rabbit poo!!! lol I don't get several years' growth in a season, but they're happy. Praying for rain in Texas, Sherry ----- Original Message ----- From: E.Vincent Morano To: Discussion of aroids Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 2:20 PM Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Gbberellic acid and BIG OOPS!! You want to try it and risk killing your plants then by all means do it but be sure to post result. They talk about GA4+7 and BA (benzyladenine) and GA3 and also GA3 alone. Mixing hormones may be safer/better. Sure that website says that it will increase flowers but what they dont mention is that at the end of the growing season, your calla lily will probably not have formed much of a bulb or may just die. This is good for them anyway because if your plant dies at the end of the season the you come back and buy more. Same thing if you are left with a small bulb and your plant is small the next season, you'll want a healthy plant and buy a new one. Just because you can make a plant do something, doesnt mean that is is the best choice for the plant. I suppose that if for the sake of research you need a flower then sure, who cares if your plant is stunted or dies, you got your flower. But just dont forget I told yah so. :-) It seems reasonable that mixing hormones will work. Ive mixed hormones and achieved outstanding results. But I promise you, GA3 alone can be very bad poured into the soil. I also know all plants are different but be that as it may, GA3 on tuber/roots/rhizomes Will retard and kill them 99% of the time. However Im sure there are some odd ball plants out there that defy the norm. You may be able to force the tubers with ga3 however you will have more success with ethylene. I was able to force nearly all my amorphophallus with ethylene. However, I had a problem with my green house and could not keep them warm so some of them died or went back to sleep. Next season, this problem will have been solved. Using GA3, 6-BA, Indole acetic acid (IAA) and Triacontanol all together in a solution with proper fertilization, Ive been able to extract 3-7 years worth of growth in a single season from many different plants. Succulents preform very well as do trees. While Ive achieved superior tuber growth with Indole acetic acid (IAA) and even Indole Butyric Acid. How ever IAA Is my favorite auxin to use as it is the most active auxin out of all of the auxins. IBA is good for encouraging fine root growth and root growth on cuttings. While Indole acetic acid (IAA) encourages large root growth and a tuber is basically a large root . Interestingly, Triacontanol can cause your flowers to grow very large. But it can also cause them to mutate so be prepared. I refuse to participate in the in the recession. --- On Tue, 8/4/09, Susan B wrote: From: Susan B Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Gbberellic acid and BIG OOPS!! To: "Discussion of aroids" Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 7:15 AM Check out #3, Tuber treatments for enhanced flowering. They seem to disagree?? http://www.pacificcallas.com/cutflowerguidelines.htm#cutflower3 --- On Sun, 8/2/09, E.Vincent Morano wrote: From: E.Vincent Morano Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Gbberellic acid and BIG OOPS!! To: "Discussion of aroids" Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 7:10 PM About what I said below. I said to pour a 100-150 ppm solution at the base of the plant but I also said NOT TO LET GA3 COME IN CONTACT WITH ROOTS. What I meant to say was to use a solution of Indole Acetic Acid at 100-150 ppm not ga3. Again, GA3 contact with roots, rhizomes, and tubers is bad bad bad for all plants. I refuse to participate in the in the recession. --- On Fri, 7/31/09, E.Vincent Morano wrote: From: E.Vincent Morano Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] gGbberellic acid and inflorescence production To: "Discussion of aroids" Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 3:34 PM Use caution with this if you care to experiment. GA3 retards root growth and will kill your tubers/rhizomes if it comes in contact with them. Do not use on amorphophallus unless its a variety that can grow a leaf and an inflorescence at the same time but dot expect much tuber growth as GA3 retards that also because is a form of a root. I've been using plant growth hormones for years. If you want to noticeably increase tuber growth then wait until the tuber has formed a leaf and the leaf is fully open and established. Then pour a 100-150ppm solution at the base of the plant avoiding the leaf,a higher ppm is not better, it will cause the plant to do different things. Just do this one time during the season and apply high phosphate or bone meal fertilizer. Keep in a hot and humid shaded greenhouse for optimal results. Using this method, I made a 2lb konjac grow into a 7lb monster in one season. The next year it gave me a perfect flower of specimen quality. Which Ive posted pictures of here in the past. This year Im doing this too all my tubers --- On Fri, 7/31/09, ExoticRainforest wrote: From: ExoticRainforest Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] gGbberellic acid and inflorescence production To: "Discussion of aroids" Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 9:34 AM Thanks Marc! I'm always glad to see your posts on Aroid l. Steve Marc Gibernau wrote: Dear Steve, Yes gibberellic acid has been "intensively" used to induce the production of an inflorescence with aroid. See all the work of henny and collaborators. I wanted to try but never have time, so please keep me informed. Here is the list of some papers by Henny: Henny, R. J. 1980. Gibberellic acid (GA3) induces flowering in Dieffenbachia maculata 'Perfection'. HortScience 15(5): 613. species. Henny, R. J. 1981. Promotion of flowering in Spathiphyllum 'Mauna Loa' with Gibberellic Acid. HortScience 16(4): 554-555. Henny, R. J. 1983. Stimulation of flowering in Aglaonema with gibberellic acid (GA3). Aroideana 6(3): 71-72. Henny, R. J. 1983. Flowering of Aglaonema commutatum 'Treubii' following treatment with gibberellic acid. HortScience 18(3): 374. Henny, R. J. and W. C. Fooshee. 1983. Flowering of Aglaonema with gibberellic acid (GA3). A follow-up report. Aroideana 6: 135-136. Henny, R. J. and R. L. Hamilton. 1992. Flowering of Anthurium following treatment with gibberellic acid. HortScience 27(12): 1328. Henny, R. J. 1999. Gibberellic acid-induced flowering of Syngonium podophyllum Schott 'White Butterfly'. HortScience 34(4): 676-677. 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