[Brett G]

I am not sure if this is in the right section, so please forgive me if it is not

I have been checking out some products online. One is called Griffins Spin-Out and the other is Root Rite. Both are used in gardening as a coating on the inside of plant containers to prevent the roots from spining inside of another and becoming root bound. One of the products contains copper hydroxide and the other contains copper chloride. They both work well, but each product does better in certain areas then the other. After doing some google searching i found a compound called copper chloride hydroxide.

My question is this:

Will the compound copper chloride hydroxite show the benefits of both products? Or will this compound react completely different from copper hydroxide and copper chloride to roots?

Thank you for your time

Brett G

[Brett G]

Nobody? Anybody? 

Even just a shot in the dark opinion would be more than welcome!

Thanks again

Brett

[Borek]

Copper chloride hydroxide is most likely either a mixture of hydroxide and chloride, or so called basic salt. Both chloride and hydroxide will react with soil components, giving finally some mixture of copper compounds. I suppose to some extent regardless of which copper compound you start with, you end with some mixture, with exact composition determined by the soil. In the non acidic, carbon dioxide rich environement (soil and humus), copper will easily precipitate as carbonate or basic carbonate.

[AWK]

Basic copper chloride - CuCl₂^.3Cu(OH)₂

[Brett G]

Thank you for your informative replies, i will go ahead and do a trial run on a copper chloride hydroxide mixture.

Regards,

Brett

[Mitch]

Let us know how your experiments go.