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Francisco Figueroa · 01-30-2015, 03:58 AM

Rooting hormones are of help in rooting bulbs and corms, they are used with hyacinths etc to reporduce them and get planlets in nurseries, the problem I stated is when the are used in high concentrations for short time bath of the vegetal material to root (as those usual an convenient in rooting wooden cuttings of trees etc) but when used very much diluted (i.e., for 24 or 48 h bath of the cuttings) they will not be that harmful for cuttings, plants or corms with an already developing or developed root system, but they are not realy needed, since ther is already a root system...
Mycorrhizae is definetively a very good advise, the fungus associated to the rootsystem not only helps the plant to get the nutrients, it also protects it against pathogens, by two mechanism: as an antagonist of the pathogen (in competision to colonize the plant's rizosphere) and in some cases (Trichodermas, Glomus...) as a counter-pathogen, but specially, by promoting the SAR, Systemic Acquired Resistance and Systemic Induced Resistance in the plant; in bananas this could be interesting against fusarium etc.

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Francisco Figueroa Location: Mountains of Madrid (sierra de Guadarrama) 1015 m altitude Find me on the map! Zone: 8b Name: Fran Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 17 BananaBucks : 6,529 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 22 Times Was Thanked 26 Times in 16 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 4 Times	Re: Rooting compund on bananas? Rooting hormones are of help in rooting bulbs and corms, they are used with hyacinths etc to reporduce them and get planlets in nurseries, the problem I stated is when the are used in high concentrations for short time bath of the vegetal material to root (as those usual an convenient in rooting wooden cuttings of trees etc) but when used very much diluted (i.e., for 24 or 48 h bath of the cuttings) they will not be that harmful for cuttings, plants or corms with an already developing or developed root system, but they are not realy needed, since ther is already a root system... Mycorrhizae is definetively a very good advise, the fungus associated to the rootsystem not only helps the plant to get the nutrients, it also protects it against pathogens, by two mechanism: as an antagonist of the pathogen (in competision to colonize the plant's rizosphere) and in some cases (Trichodermas, Glomus...) as a counter-pathogen, but specially, by promoting the SAR, Systemic Acquired Resistance and Systemic Induced Resistance in the plant; in bananas this could be interesting against fusarium etc.