[Aroid-l] gGbberellic acid and inflorescence production

From: ExoticRainforest <Steve at ExoticRainforest.com> on 2009.08.01 at 00:52:41 Thanks Ted.  The more I read thatappears to be the findings of others.  As for me I'll just allow natureto do the work of inducing an inflorescence. Steve Theodore Held wrote: Steve and others,I have tried gibberelic acid on my Crypts and I was successful atgetting three flowers from a reluctant clone that had never done sofor me prior to that. If you attended my Crypt lecture at the showlast fall (or managed to stay awake), I had pictures of the three. Thefirst two were bizarre, weak things with a host of peculiarities. Thefirst was worse than the second. By the time the third appeared I gota bloom that was well within the range of what I would expect as a"normal" bloom. I have secured the third flower as my ID standard forthe clone. It has never flowered again.I have a couple of articles from Florida University that I downloadedthat discuss the use of such hormones. In the commercial world GA3 (asthe usual type of giberellic acid is called) can be used to goosearoids to flower profusely and make them more saleable. It can also beused to coax simultaneous blooms when a cross is desired. Messingaround with the correct dosage is the key trick because you want it tolook natural. But it's done all the time.So when you're at the Home Depot and you get an aroid with lots ofblooms and then become disappointed when you can't get the thing tolook so nice after that, lack of artificial hormone treatments mightbe the cause.Anyone interested in the articles or details of my experiment cane-mail me privately.Ted Held. --------------080501020200070805060505

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