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formerly RGG

I have ordered a gram of this growth hormone from China and am wondering if any growers on here have had any experience with it ?

6/18/2013 9:21:50 PM

formerly RGG

Here is the description from the vendor Green Plantchem Company Limited:

Applying to vegetable:
Spraying on leaf-vegetables, 3-5 days later, the effect can emerge obviously. Leaves get wider and thicker, yield increases 20-40%. Applying to fruit vegetables, the plant is robust and can resist fruit dropping and flower dropping, promote fruit’s enlarging, and early maturation. So, there is no need to use 2,4-D or other hormone. Also the plant sprayed with BR481 can resist virus and frosty mildew etc. The yield increases 20-45% and vegetables can be put onto market 7-14 days earlier.

6/18/2013 9:32:27 PM

Rhode Island

hey anything is worth a try. we have never used it.id be a little concerned with early maturation. id test it on one plant/pumpkin first.
pap

6/19/2013 6:44:43 AM

BC, Canada

TD
What is your intention with it? I use some PGRs on nursery plants to regulate size/flower coverage but they are in a different class all together. This whole field is evolving rapidly and has some potentially great possibilities, less pesticides/greater growth etc.
What I have read about this 24 is that it has been tested to show much greater tolerance to heat stress.
Just wondering what you had in mind. I would be interested to know what happens if you give it a try.
Thanks

6/28/2013 3:49:37 PM

N.c.

As a soil drench it might be effective in raising a plants resistance to, and ameliorating the effects of, low temperature conditions and hypoxia.

6/29/2013 6:52:49 AM

formerly RGG

I am after all the good attributes in the description of the product. I have also been using forchlorfenuron and Indole-3-butyric acid this year and I have some awesome looking plants for the most part. But my growth has been too fast and I lost one pumpkin at 14 days to a stem split and I have a 20 day pumpkin that is 200" OTT and over 36" in length. This one is my 1480 Urena and the plant will grow long pumpkins. But I am pretty sure it is headed toward a split too. It is fun experimenting with growth hormones, but can be heartbreaking.I may end up with nothing at all this year. But I will keep trying and could get a nice pumpkin or two if some will keep growing until a weigh-off. I am in the south cavitysearch, so greater heat tolerance is certainly one of the things I am looking for.

7/2/2013 8:17:09 AM

Bowdon, GA

Dennis, Make sure you are careful handling that stuff. From what I have read CPPUs can be very harmful.

7/16/2013 11:39:43 PM