Home made Rooting compound?
Today I drove around a bit looking for a willow tree. In the summer time they are pretty easy to spot... lots of weeping willows here in Missouri... but right now... I think they are all hiding.
Sooooo... I got thinking about this and came back and did some research on the net. Aspirin!. The best consensus out there seems to be 1.5 very well ground up aspirin (non - coated) per gallon of water. Do the 45 degree angle cut and nick the stem several times above the cut all around. Do the aspirin dip and plant.
And... not only is it an effective rooting compound, but it seems to add a degree of disease resistance to the plant! Many reports talk of increased bloom size when aspirin water is used as a supplement later in the flowering stage. This deserves some experimentation! I will let you know what I see when I start trying to get some clones out of this batch.
Emmie
Home made Rooting compound?
I have heard that people use aspirin to induce their females to throw nanners.
I believe Rustytrichome has used aspirin for this, but don't quote me.
Home made Rooting compound?
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Originally Posted by oldmac
Hey emilya,
Willow water is a very old method of getting a good rooting hormone. :thumbsup:
I must admit I 've never heard or tried cooking branches to obtain it.
When I was young and on the farm we would take a bundle of willow branch cuttings, stick them in a bucket (obviously durring warm weather) and when the cuttings started to show root growth the water was done. Remove the branches, filter the water for any debri (it had been outside for a few weeks) and ready to use for whatever you wanted to root.
Hope that helps, but I am interested in your method.
OM
And THAT must be why granny used to tell me that it helped to take a samll willow stick and plant it with your cutting as a sturdy stick! HAD to be a willow stick. I thought it was some sort of wives tale or something seeing as how she required that if we entered the house through the front door we must leave through the front door. If we entered through the front and left through the back, or vice versa, we would take the "luck and good fortune" out of the house with us!
Home made Rooting compound?
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Originally Posted by emilya
And... not only is it an effective rooting compound, but it seems to add a degree of disease resistance to the plant! Many reports talk of increased bloom size when aspirin water is used as a supplement later in the flowering stage. This deserves some experimentation! I will let you know what I see when I start trying to get some clones out of this batch.
Emmie
Emmie, I tried aspirin to get nanners out of a breed I had. I did not see any change in budding at all with the aspirin, I did see a stressed plant.
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Originally Posted by emilya
One-and-a-half aspirin?
What milligram?
If it were me, I would use some tried and true method until you make your own stuff....you loose the line, you have to start all over. Nothing wrong with DIY, I am a biggie on that, but sometimes prudence is better than penny pinching. Your time has value also.
As has been stated somewhere on the forum, just sticking the stem in water will work.
Fun yes, complicate not for me.
Home made Rooting compound?
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Originally Posted by WashougalWonder
Emmie, I tried aspirin to get nanners out of a breed I had. I did not see any change in budding at all with the aspirin, I did see a stressed plant.
What milligram?
If it were me, I would use some tried and true method until you make your own stuff....you loose the line, you have to start all over. Nothing wrong with DIY, I am a biggie on that, but sometimes prudence is better than penny pinching. Your time has value also.
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Very good points, definitely. I think I will save the aspirin-as-a-bloom-supplement as a risky experiment that will be conducted on a plant that is not critical in the line. My present plan to go with a 2 plant SCRog grow in my custom designed grow box is going to allow me to have many clones to experiment with using many different methods, so I will get an answer regarding the use of aspirin as a rooting compound in the next few months if all goes according to plan. It's really not so much about penny pinching as learning that the solution is right there readily available to us in basic forms so as to not have to rely on the commercial suppliers for this stuff. I firmly believe that part of the solution to getting legalization is to remove the big money component to this "hobby." It's sort of like learning that a major component in a lot of the supplements out there is black-strap molasses... how much has that little gem of knowledge saved us overall in dollars spent toward this thing?
Emmie
Home made Rooting compound?
Yep, isn't that the truth.
Home made Rooting compound?
Emylia,
Glad to see you are not going thru with aspirin as a rooting compound.
That could be very tricky, if it would work or stress plant as many pointed out allready.
When I've tried to deliberently stress a plant to hermie, my first choice is "light stress" since it works on most hybred plants. But if that don't work I go to "chemical stress" and the most mild of those chems is aspirin.
"Take two asprins and call me Hermie in the morning" :D
OM
PS Like the new signature,great line!
