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Hormone rooting powder
I hope to take my very first rose cuttings this weekend. All the advice seems to suggest using hormone rooting powder. I have never used it, but I think I have some somewhere in the shed that I bought years ago. Is it worth searching for it, do you think? Or will it have gone off by now?
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Christopher Lloyd said it goes off.
I trust Christopher Lloyd's judgement
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ooh so do I!
So should I just chuck it, or use it knowing it may not help? Could it do any harm, do you think?
Haven't got time to get any more before I need to take the cuttings (not from my garden but from my childhood home), so am debating whether it would be better to use possibly ineffectual powder or none at all.
I doubt if it would do harm but I'm not a scientist and don't know how it works
In the sticks near Peterborough
OK, will bin it (I HATE throwing stuff away!) - thanks for the tips
Must confess to never having used it once in my life.
I read once, ( not that that makes it true ) that the active ingredient is one part per million and it's acetone, the same as nail polish remover.
Might be a load of cobblers though.
There are 5 classes of plant hormones, it is an interesting subject. Many years ago, I used to be intelligent, but this is as far as I can go nowadays.
Never used rooting hormones with roses, as long as they are pushed into the soil about six inches in a quiet part of the garden they will root, don't use it with either fuchsias or geraniums, as long as the cuttings are taken correctly they will root, the only plant I ever used rooting powder for were chrysanths for exhibition, threw it away years ago.
Catherine, I know that feeling so well
In the sticks near Peterborough