Rooting Hormone for Cuttings – .35 IBA Rooting Hormone - Cloning Gel Key to Plant Cloning - Midas Hydro Rooting Hormone for Cuttings 4oz - Rooting Gel for Professional and Home Based Growers

I love this product! It's thick, so it stays on the root. Shortly after receiving it, I started trying it on all kinds of plant clippings from my tropical yard. This rooting hormone works faster than the powder hormones I've used before. It's actually saved me about $30 in just replacement milkweed plants! I bought the 1st milkweed to see if I could get Monarch butterflies to come. I was delighted to soon see the first one. In no time, I realized there were striped Monarch caterpillars of varying sizes eating the plant down to its stems! I hurriedly bought another large milkweed, so they wouldn't starve. They quickly stripped it too, but left behind 6 cocoons! Sadly, only one hatched, but I was learning. There's some local, flying pest that attacks the chrysalises. I didn't know about, but I was entranced. Above, a picture is of my original plant eaten down to sticks! A friend told me to cut about 6" off all of the ends, to try to root them. This rooting gel is quick and easy to use. It's tempting to want to just dip the cutting into it, but luckily this time, I read the directions first. To prevent contaminating the whole jar, I just dip a clean teaspoon in it. Enough clings to coat the clipped edge & the rest stays clean. Within 3 weeks my cuttings were rooted enough that they began making leaves again. My original 2 plants was now a dozen. Again, the Monarchs came and laid eggs. Soon, those hungry, hungry, caterpillars became fat, then made even more chrysalises! This time, I knew to put a mosquito net over all of them to protect them. Here's a picture of on of my many hatched Monarchs! Thanks to being able to root the clippings so quickly, I had enough food for them all. I won't need to ever buy more milkweeds. In fact, I plan to sell the extra plants I'll have after clipping the ends again! My jar is still at least 3/4 full, although I have rooted dozens of new plants this summer. It's so easy, and I think it's a great value for the money. I'm hooked now!

I have been growing and cloning cannabis for the past year, and in my experience this stuff really works. In the beginning I had mediocre success keeping clones alive, with ~50% dying before they could be planted. This failure was due to a number of rookie mistakes, but my choice of rooting gel certainly didn't seem to be a contributing factor. I took tiny cuts (~a few cm) from new growth, used junky rockwool that often disintegrated or broke in half, sat them in dirty, algae-filled, stagnant water, and frequently knocked them over and ejected them from the rockwool, among other embarrassing mistakes. Though many cuts died by my hand from carelessness, nearly all (90%+) grew healthy roots in a week or less. Not only that, but I only recently realized that the directions say to add some gel to a different container to avoid contaminating the entire batch...whoops. I'd been dipping the stems straight into the main container for nearly a year now, yet I've been enormously successful in rooting anyway. I'm proud to say that, for the entirety of 2021 so far, not a single clone has died on me; without exaggeration, 100% SUCCESS (not including the clones I've killed from carelessness or neglect). I get bright, thick, healthy, fuzzy white roots with this gel every time, often in a week or less. Furthermore, I ALSO only just realized that this gel should be refrigerated to maintain its effectiveness over months and years. My container usually just sits at room temperature, sometimes even being accidentally left under hot grow lights. In spite of my constant ignorance of the directions, this gel sticks to the stems' wounds and does an impeccable job coaxing out roots.

Followed the instructions for one maranta cutting, one alocasia corm, two moonstone petals, and one rhaphidophora tetrasperma cutting with a small arial root. Each one was in a moist soil environment, with an industrial grow lamp providing adequate light. The tetrasperma and maranta died without rooting, no change to the alocasia corm, and the moonstones haven't withered yet but they also aren't rooting. I have no evidence that this is rooting hormone. It's just expensive, dangerous red goo Edit: the alocasia corm has rooted and produced leaves, changing my rating from one star to two stars. Edit2: The moonstones still remain very unhappy. The Maranta cuttings bounced back and rooted well. Works best for dirt propagation with less water, try not to get the gel actually on the roots. Knowing this, I tried again with an Alocasia corm in ideal conditions, and it was happy, sprouted first leaf last month! updating from 2 to 4 stars.

This product works well use it every night. Keeps my skin moisturized. Worth the money. The smell not bad but not great either after a while you get use to it.

I Had about a 55% success rate with this. The powder is much better foe me.

Received item in good condition,great handling by delivery no leakage. 1st switch to gel from powder form of rooting hormone. I would have to say it's an improvement, faster roots formation! Success.