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Originally Posted by aruzinsky
Done!
The grey color of the solution is worrisome. I will have to investigate. |
The "worrisome" grey color was from a precipitate caused by a chemical reaction with impurities in my tap water which is from Lake Michigan. I replaced it with distilled water and resprayed today. Incidentally, as a surfactant, I used Triton X-100 because it is a stronger surfactant than Tween 20. Even so, it takes at least 250 ppm Triton X-100 to prevent beading on banana foliage.
BTW, silver nitrate is not my best choice for ethylene antagonists. I am only using it for convenience. If I could afford it, I would use aminoethoxyvinylglycine (AVG), the active ingredient in the commercial PGRs, ReTain and PinCor. See
https://cropenhancement.valentbiosci...roducts/retain.
https://cropenhancement.valentbiosci...roducts/pincor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmlcNTGI_Fo