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Is everyone really using TRIACONTANOL incorrectly?
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http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11099-013-0054-x
Influence of foliar-applied triacontanol on growth, gas exchange characteristics, and chlorophyll fluorescence at different growth stages in wheat under saline conditions
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2013/308651/
Selected physiological and biochemical parameters were monitored at the vegetative and reproductive growth stages in potted Bougainvillea plants treated with five different concentrations of TRIA. Advanced flowering, flower bud number, and blooming rate increased significantly with 0.5 and 1.0 mg/L TRIA treatments. Similarly, photosynthetic rate, pigment content, quantum yield, and stomatal conductance increased significantly with 2.5, 1.0, and 5.0 mg/L TRIA treatments. Higher levels of N, P, and K, as well as increased total soluble solids (TSS) and higher sugar and protein contents, were recorded in treated plants. Furthermore, 46% more flowers, a 1.5-fold increase in bract weight, increased longevity, and 40% less leaf abscission were recorded following 2.5 mg/L TRIA treatment. Phenol and flavonoid contents, sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS), and antioxidant activities were also markedly increased with 2.5 and 1.0 mg/L TRIA treatments. However, ethylene production was significantly lower in the treated plants. Positive correlations were observed between leaf TSS and flowering time and flower number, between leaf sugar content and bract weight, and between net photosynthesis and bract growth and dry matter production. It can be concluded that the foliar spray of TRIA stimulates growth, enhances flowering, and improves the quality of potted Bougainvillea plants.
1-triacontanol can be used as a soil drench instead of foliar... Grow More Jump Start is loaded with TRIA
Influence of foliar-applied triacontanol on growth, gas exchange characteristics, and chlorophyll fluorescence at different growth stages in wheat under saline conditions
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2013/308651/
Selected physiological and biochemical parameters were monitored at the vegetative and reproductive growth stages in potted Bougainvillea plants treated with five different concentrations of TRIA. Advanced flowering, flower bud number, and blooming rate increased significantly with 0.5 and 1.0 mg/L TRIA treatments. Similarly, photosynthetic rate, pigment content, quantum yield, and stomatal conductance increased significantly with 2.5, 1.0, and 5.0 mg/L TRIA treatments. Higher levels of N, P, and K, as well as increased total soluble solids (TSS) and higher sugar and protein contents, were recorded in treated plants. Furthermore, 46% more flowers, a 1.5-fold increase in bract weight, increased longevity, and 40% less leaf abscission were recorded following 2.5 mg/L TRIA treatment. Phenol and flavonoid contents, sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS), and antioxidant activities were also markedly increased with 2.5 and 1.0 mg/L TRIA treatments. However, ethylene production was significantly lower in the treated plants. Positive correlations were observed between leaf TSS and flowering time and flower number, between leaf sugar content and bract weight, and between net photosynthesis and bract growth and dry matter production. It can be concluded that the foliar spray of TRIA stimulates growth, enhances flowering, and improves the quality of potted Bougainvillea plants.
1-triacontanol can be used as a soil drench instead of foliar... Grow More Jump Start is loaded with TRIA
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alfalfa tea smells like horse S***
Beware..
Beware..
SRGB
Member
Hi.
It has been quite some time since we last researched tria, some of this data may not be verbatim or entirely precise, yet from what we can recollect finding, the original research was done in open fields, outdoors, using some form of alfalfa mulch. To the best of our recollections, the scientists were not actually looking for tria when they found it; they might have simply been researching use of nearby (locally to them) mulches (or, perhaps waste products from other agriculture) as a cover crop or `fertilizer` if you would for this example, versus applying traditional `fertilizers`.
Once the results of the field(s) were reviewed, the experimenters did the work of isolating the compunds which increased growth rates and yields, and cam across tria.
There have been several papers on the insolubility of tria, and the various methods of making it more soluble in some form of liquid.
There might be several packaged products at large which contain tria, some more difficult to source than others, but available.
The most important factor that we found during our research into tria, was that the effective application rate was only 1 ug/liter, that is, 1 microgram per liter. We will not go into the math involved in defining a microgram, as it might be an exercise in itself.
Further, the primary researchers later found that applying more than the approximate 1 micro gram per liter might actually nullify the effects of tria. Therefore, the researchers then proceeded to create a solution which only dispersed that single microgram per liter evenly over a given crop. there miight be several studies, papers, etc. on that complicated subject matter.
Alternative sources for tria might include the original raw (unrefined) materials that the original researchers used in their experiments, that is alfalfa meal dispersed into the media.
If a gardener really desires to delve into stable collidial dispersions of tria, they might be in for some decent research and micro-measurements of materials, yet perhaps possible.
Polysorbate 20 has been used as an emulsifier to facilitate application of it as a foliar spray, or, in fact as a media drench. Again, we must refer to the effective application rate of only 1 microgram per liter of solution - not 1 ppm, but 1 ppb.
Also, again, we reiterate that it was later found that more than a certain amount of tria applied might simply render the `pgr` ineffective. There might be a substantial amount of research on this topic to filter through to find very small points that might indeed directly affect the viability of the given solution, or other tria application.
Again, we must reiterate that the effective rate of tria is only 1 microgram per liter. Ordinary alfalfa meal, modestly incorporated into a media, or even applied as a top-dressing only once or so per season, might render the desired effects. Does not have to be a `tea, nor does there need to be a substantial amount applied, nor does it need to be applied more than once, as the primary researchers may have found that tria only needed to be applied once (a single application) to be effective (increased growth rates and eventual `yield`).
As we noted above, we did our research some time ago, and do not have our notes before us presently. At that time, we were attempting to use a certain raw material to extract and isolate tria, then create a soluble form (solution, to the extent possible) of the isolated material, at the appropriate and effective concentration rate disclosed by the original researchers.
To the best of our recollections, there were/are other natural materials besides alfalfa from which tria could be derived, though that process might be rather involved (requiring laboratory grade practices to extract and isolate it as a fine, predominantly insolvent crystalline powder).
It (tria) perhaps can also be directly acquired as that powder from certain high quality laboratories, but then there would be the task of creating a soluble dispersion at 1 microgram per liter (rhetorially describing it here as splitting a single particle into a billion pieces within a 1 liter spray bottle,), and only applying that spray a single time, to cover the entire crop.
In any event, a small amount of alfalfa meal, for example, perhaps a handfull or less (1 to 4 ounces), dispersed as a top-dressing, or incorporated into the media might work - as that was, roughly, the material used for the original experiment(s).
However, as a practical consideration, the gardener might want to retain a `control` specimen to determine if the tria experiment specimen actually produced the desired results at the conclusion of the experiment.
We hope that this post might be helpful.
Kind regards,
/SRGB/
It has been quite some time since we last researched tria, some of this data may not be verbatim or entirely precise, yet from what we can recollect finding, the original research was done in open fields, outdoors, using some form of alfalfa mulch. To the best of our recollections, the scientists were not actually looking for tria when they found it; they might have simply been researching use of nearby (locally to them) mulches (or, perhaps waste products from other agriculture) as a cover crop or `fertilizer` if you would for this example, versus applying traditional `fertilizers`.
Once the results of the field(s) were reviewed, the experimenters did the work of isolating the compunds which increased growth rates and yields, and cam across tria.
There have been several papers on the insolubility of tria, and the various methods of making it more soluble in some form of liquid.
There might be several packaged products at large which contain tria, some more difficult to source than others, but available.
The most important factor that we found during our research into tria, was that the effective application rate was only 1 ug/liter, that is, 1 microgram per liter. We will not go into the math involved in defining a microgram, as it might be an exercise in itself.
Further, the primary researchers later found that applying more than the approximate 1 micro gram per liter might actually nullify the effects of tria. Therefore, the researchers then proceeded to create a solution which only dispersed that single microgram per liter evenly over a given crop. there miight be several studies, papers, etc. on that complicated subject matter.
Alternative sources for tria might include the original raw (unrefined) materials that the original researchers used in their experiments, that is alfalfa meal dispersed into the media.
If a gardener really desires to delve into stable collidial dispersions of tria, they might be in for some decent research and micro-measurements of materials, yet perhaps possible.
Polysorbate 20 has been used as an emulsifier to facilitate application of it as a foliar spray, or, in fact as a media drench. Again, we must refer to the effective application rate of only 1 microgram per liter of solution - not 1 ppm, but 1 ppb.
Also, again, we reiterate that it was later found that more than a certain amount of tria applied might simply render the `pgr` ineffective. There might be a substantial amount of research on this topic to filter through to find very small points that might indeed directly affect the viability of the given solution, or other tria application.
Again, we must reiterate that the effective rate of tria is only 1 microgram per liter. Ordinary alfalfa meal, modestly incorporated into a media, or even applied as a top-dressing only once or so per season, might render the desired effects. Does not have to be a `tea, nor does there need to be a substantial amount applied, nor does it need to be applied more than once, as the primary researchers may have found that tria only needed to be applied once (a single application) to be effective (increased growth rates and eventual `yield`).
As we noted above, we did our research some time ago, and do not have our notes before us presently. At that time, we were attempting to use a certain raw material to extract and isolate tria, then create a soluble form (solution, to the extent possible) of the isolated material, at the appropriate and effective concentration rate disclosed by the original researchers.
To the best of our recollections, there were/are other natural materials besides alfalfa from which tria could be derived, though that process might be rather involved (requiring laboratory grade practices to extract and isolate it as a fine, predominantly insolvent crystalline powder).
It (tria) perhaps can also be directly acquired as that powder from certain high quality laboratories, but then there would be the task of creating a soluble dispersion at 1 microgram per liter (rhetorially describing it here as splitting a single particle into a billion pieces within a 1 liter spray bottle,), and only applying that spray a single time, to cover the entire crop.
In any event, a small amount of alfalfa meal, for example, perhaps a handfull or less (1 to 4 ounces), dispersed as a top-dressing, or incorporated into the media might work - as that was, roughly, the material used for the original experiment(s).
However, as a practical consideration, the gardener might want to retain a `control` specimen to determine if the tria experiment specimen actually produced the desired results at the conclusion of the experiment.
We hope that this post might be helpful.
Kind regards,
/SRGB/
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SRGB
Member
shaggyballs:
0.000001 g = 1 microgram
Thank you very much for a very interesting reply!!!
I have also been looking into nano amounts of calcium,rare earth minerals and their synergy with triacontanol.
Was the research done on ?
Commercial agriculture products seem to recommend it at a higher dose.
Thanks
Shag
Hi, shaggyballs.
Thank you. Again, we do not have any notes before us presently, if we recollect accurately, the original research was performed on some local agricultural field using local agricultural or horticultural by-products, or waste products. We are not entirely certain, but the researchers disclosed the data and it might published at large.
We may have reviewed some publications or finished products where some form of calcium was employed to better facilitate the trias` solubility, or, at least capacity to affect the specimen.
We are not familiar with the products that you are referencing relevant to `recommended` dosages. We posted relevant to our recollections of publications by the original researchers. The subsequent publication that the original researchers wrote concerning their findings where an overabundance of tria being applied might potentially have an inverse effect might be enlightening.
Best,
/SRGB/
0.000001 g = 1 microgram
Thank you very much for a very interesting reply!!!
I have also been looking into nano amounts of calcium,rare earth minerals and their synergy with triacontanol.
Was the research done on ?
Commercial agriculture products seem to recommend it at a higher dose.
Thanks
Shag
Hi, shaggyballs.
Thank you. Again, we do not have any notes before us presently, if we recollect accurately, the original research was performed on some local agricultural field using local agricultural or horticultural by-products, or waste products. We are not entirely certain, but the researchers disclosed the data and it might published at large.
We may have reviewed some publications or finished products where some form of calcium was employed to better facilitate the trias` solubility, or, at least capacity to affect the specimen.
We are not familiar with the products that you are referencing relevant to `recommended` dosages. We posted relevant to our recollections of publications by the original researchers. The subsequent publication that the original researchers wrote concerning their findings where an overabundance of tria being applied might potentially have an inverse effect might be enlightening.
Best,
/SRGB/
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So... i am trialing a water soluble product of tria from an australian company at 1ppm in res and 25 ppm as a 14 day folair with kwlp... am i was wasting my time? Results seem fairly good but i have no idea if its the kelp/fulvic/humic or the tria...
Label says no surfactant required... surely as an agri product ud think it would penetrate crop vegitation y/n?
Label says no surfactant required... surely as an agri product ud think it would penetrate crop vegitation y/n?
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