panhead
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Ive been reading & digesting much of this information in this thread for a few days now,i still dont understand much of it thoughVery cool data. Are you noticing any retardation of primary growth (or flowering, for those who have used rooting supplements all the way through)? I've read cautions against adding too much rooting/transplant supplement once vegetative growth begins to accelerate, as too much hormone can apparently inhibit growth.
From Cervantes Indoor/Outdoor Medical Growers Bible:
(p. 47)
Although, later on, he says this:
(p. 289)
Some experts claim that these compounds shouldn't be used in transplants or maturing plants at all, only for cloning--as in cloning, you want to arrest primary/secondary growth in favor of new lateral root growth. Conversely, apparently Vitamin B1 on its own doesn't do much--you need hormones (NAA and/or IBA auxins) and ferts (N) for any real effect and over-application of hormones may lead to adverse effects. To drive the point home, some commercial herbicides are actually massive overdoses of synthetic auxins.
The retardation you mentioned is what i think im experiencing,i measured the circumference of the bud in my pic & it has gained just a tad over 1 inch in girth since given the hormone.
Ive been thinking about the links ive read & where they speak of regeneration so i tried something else,i have a batch that is 100% ready for harvest with 99% red hairs & no new calyx's for a week or so,they were flushed & i planned on taking them down today,the soil was very dry,i watered one plant with the hormone laden water early yesterday morning,i went back this afternoon to look at them & i have new calyx's on the plant,growing in small clumps.
I took the rest of that batch down this afternoon but i left the newly treated plant & another plant that is ready for harvest,i watered the dry plant with plain ph'ed water to see if it will get new calyx clusters like the treated plant.
So far ive seen explosive bud growth in the first plant treated,better leaf formation in the treated seedlings,new calyx development(2nd plant treated) on a fully ripened plant,treated clones are growing fast but so are the untreated clones,i need to watch them more.