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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 02:33 PM 2/17/2003 -0500, MRK wrote:
> You would not want to use a powder rooting hormone sine these products 
> contain large percentage of talc (usually 99.9-99.2% talc). Talc being 
> completely insoluble in water will become a barrier to the union.
Hmm.  I was thinking I had seen something in print, somewhere, at some 
time(but maybe I'm mistaken), indicating that the talc-based rooting 
hormone powders actually did work OK in grafting applications.
I've never tried it, yet, but might give it a shot this spring.


Lucky