Kinetin: From skin cream to tomato blossom set spray
Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 7:22 am
Welcome to another episode of Surfsteve's believe it or not zone.
I was just noticing this morning that two of my tomato plants have tomatoes on them and the rest don't. I had heard that I should buy some tomato blossom set spray because otherwise it gets too hot for them to set fruit.
Before buying I started researching what was in that stuff and the common name for the active ingredient is called kinetin.
When I googled kinetin I discovered that it is not only used to set fruit in tomatoes but it works as a growth regulator on all sorts of plants and that it is even sold in skin creams claiming it has anti aging properties.
Maybe that tomato spray in your garden shed is your ticket to anti aging... Who knew?
I was just noticing this morning that two of my tomato plants have tomatoes on them and the rest don't. I had heard that I should buy some tomato blossom set spray because otherwise it gets too hot for them to set fruit.
Before buying I started researching what was in that stuff and the common name for the active ingredient is called kinetin.
When I googled kinetin I discovered that it is not only used to set fruit in tomatoes but it works as a growth regulator on all sorts of plants and that it is even sold in skin creams claiming it has anti aging properties.
Maybe that tomato spray in your garden shed is your ticket to anti aging... Who knew?