The plants of Ixora coccinea L. have beautiful flowers and
they are very common in roads, buildings and houses. The objective of
the present work was evaluate the effect of rooting media, number of
leaves/cutting and cutting injury on cutting rooting of dwarf Ixora
treated with Hormojardin Nro 4. A cuttings from apparently healthy
plants were used, the cuttings were taken from the plant tips and were
approximately 20 cm long and have a diameter of 4 or 5 mm. A
split-split-plot design was used with three replications. The main plot
was constituted for the rooting media (water and soil), the subplot was
lesion longitude at the cutting end (0, 2 and 4 cm) and the sub subplot
was the number of leaves/cutting. All cuttings were treated with
Hormojardin Nro 4 (acid-α-naftalenacetic), the application was
made in the first 4 cm at the cutting end. The number of roots/cutting
at 49 days after sowing was counted. The best results were obtained for
water as media with 2 cm-cutting lesion and 8 leaves/cutting and for
cutting without a lesion and 16 leaves/cutting, while for the soil as a
media, the results were not successful, producing a poor rooting
