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I got an Amazon gift card and was thinking of grabbing a few things fore my plant. I found 10g of GA3 for 8.99. I don't know how much that is or if its a good deal. Any input?

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Hungry Plants wrote:I got an Amazon gift card and was thinking of grabbing a few things fore my plant. I found 10g of GA3 for 8.99. I don't know how much that is or if its a good deal. Any input?

I bought 10g of GA3 back in 2016 from a guy on eBay.
I paid somewhere around $15 for it, including shipping.
So you're doing better than I did.

Good growing,
Mike

Shadowtski wrote:

Hungry Plants wrote:I got an Amazon gift card and was thinking of grabbing a few things for my plant. I found 10g of GA3 for 8.99. I don't know how much that is or if its a good deal. Any input?

I bought 10g of GA3 back in 2016 from a guy on eBay.
I paid somewhere around $15 for it, including shipping.
So you're doing better than I did.

Good growing,
Mike

How long did it last you? I'm just not sure what 10g of GA3 looks like and how much you use in a mix.

Most times Gibberellic acid comes in a powder form and you mix it yourself to the desired strength. That is a very fair price for that amount, if it's 10 grams? Are you sure it's not .1 gram?

Try mixing it with distilled water at different strengths. Keep the mixed formula in the refrigerator or the powder in a cool dry place. It should keep fine for an indefinite time period. Are you sure it's 10g? That seems like quite a bit. Usually a 1G. package is about that price.

I mixed .05g with 12 ounces of water to make a 1000ppm solution or 24 ounces of water to make a 500ppm solution. It's very concentrated chemical and a little bit goes a long way. I have used 500ppm most effectively on temperate type of sundew, pinguicula, and sarracenia seeds to help break dormancy and avoid a long cold stratification period by soaking the seeds in the solution for about 8- 12 hours before sowing. You can experiment with different techniques. I have also sprinkled some seeds into the dry powder to coat them lightly before sowing. Keep the plants separate from the rest of your other pots of plants because the solution stays in the soil and could affect the growth of your other plants if the solution leeches out and gets to them.
Hope that this helps.

hollyhock wrote:Most times Gibberellic acid comes in a powder form and you mix it yourself to the desired strength. That is a very fair price for that amount, if it's 10 grams? Are you sure it's not .1 gram?

Try mixing it with distilled water at different strengths. Keep the mixed formula in the refrigerator or the powder in a cool dry place. It should keep fine for an indefinite time period. Are you sure it's 10g? That seems like quite a bit. Usually a 1G. package is about that price.

I mixed .05g with 12 ounces of water to make a 1000ppm solution or 24 ounces of water to make a 500ppm solution. It's very concentrated chemical and a little bit goes a long way. I have used 500ppm most effectively on temperate type of sundew, pinguicula, and sarracenia seeds to help break dormancy and avoid a long cold stratification period by soaking the seeds in the solution for about 8- 12 hours before sowing. You can experiment with different techniques. I have also sprinkled some seeds into the dry powder to coat them lightly before sowing. Keep the plants separate from the rest of your other pots of plants because the solution stays in the soil and could affect the growth of your other plants if the solution leeches out and gets to them.
Hope that this helps.

This helps very much. There is shipping involved brings it to about $13 give or take. I’ll post a link to it later to make sure it the right stuff.

That would be great if you could post the link... I need more too. And if it's 10 grams that will last a lifetime... LoL

That seems like a lot for that price. I got mine for about $12 and it was a little over half a gram.

https://www.seedman.com/sstartga.htm

Here it is. Hope its the right stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing ... dition=new

So is this the right stuff.

Yes that's it...try it for the price you will have plenty to play around with some seeds. Chart your results because it's really fun to try different things.. good luck