Viewing post #2486016 by keithp2012

ElPolloDiablo said:If this can help you, gibelleric acid (GA3) is very much used in the flower trade to obtain early-blooming flowers when even traditional greenhouse forcing methods aren't enough. Commercial growers in India and Israel pioneered drenching barely emerging peonies with GA3 as opposed to spraying already emerged plants and were able to reduce to harvest times by a massive four weeks.

It's rumored a Chinese breeder was able to get a small number of F1 Itoh seeds to sprout and to even obtain an F2 hybrid using GA3 but all attempts to replicate his work outside of China have failed. While it would be easy to simply call this a scam and move on, Chinese breeders have long been known to flat out lie about their methodologies to protect their trade secrets, especially from domestic competitors: for example Poon's Nursery in Zhejiang obtained two splendid sports of Nuccio's Bella Rossa, a solid red and a variegated one. The latter is widely suspected to have been obtained through some exotic hybridization technique (somatic hybridization?), possibly with backing from a State-owned agri research institute, but the breeder maintain it was a "fortunate accident" while propagating "traditionally obtained hybrids". Right.

I can honestly say this does help speed up blooming and create new varieties of flowers.
I used it on African marigolds, some of my plants reached 6 feet tall at the end of the growing season and bloomed within a month of planting seeds! I also got massive and weird blooms, and some leaves were bluish color!

I'm very much into cacti growing and we all know how long they take to grow from seed, I wonder if this could accelerate their growth but not too much they get too thin and break?