Home made Rooting compound?

[emilya]

I am very curious about a thread I just read about cooking down willow branches to extract the natural hormone that helps in root formation for your cloned plants.

Has anyone tried this and can tell of their results? Here in Missouri we have an abundance of willow trees and I am a die hard cheapskate when I know that I can make something for free that sells for a fortune commercially.

My plan is to head to the woods around a lake I know of nearby and grab me some willow branches to put in my crock-pot. One never learns anything new if they don't experiment a bit, right?

Emmie

emilya Reviewed by emilya on 12-14-2010. Home made Rooting compound? I am very curious about a thread I just read about cooking down willow branches to extract the natural hormone that helps in root formation for your cloned plants. Has anyone tried this and can tell of their results? Here in Missouri we have an abundance of willow trees and I am a die hard cheapskate when I know that I can make something for free that sells for a fortune commercially. ;) My plan is to head to the woods around a lake I know of nearby and grab me some willow branches to Rating: 5

[WashougalWonder]

Interesting. Willow, great idea. Curious about heat and how it would effect the hormone.

[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

[emilya]

Hey emilya,

I must admit I 've never heard or tried cooking branches to obtain it.

I will let you know how it goes! I'm betting that as in most things, as long as you don't get it over 200-250 degrees, like in a crock pot set on warm for a day or so, that it wont change the chemical structure and will simply leach the substance out of the branches. We will see. If it works, I think we can save a lot of folks some money out there... especially when this all eventually goes legal.

Rack that old brain OM... what other old farm methods and old wives tales have you heard that might be able to be brought to our hobby?

Emmie

[WashougalWonder]

Rack that old brain OM... what other old farm methods and old wives tales have you heard that might be able to be brought to our hobby?

Emmie

Maybe we should start a thread....OM's brain....

I think he takes the cake for experience here. I am ready to pick his brain. I like his idea better than yours about the willow branch hormone....sounds more natural....'

But don't stop, I love to see your avatar.

[emilya]

I like his idea better than yours about the willow branch hormone....sounds more natural....'

But don't stop, I love to see your avatar.

LOL... maybe if I go out and pick them in the buff... that would make it more natural! Glad you like my AVI. Look! I just got a signature too!

Emmie

[oldmac]

Maybe we should start a thread....OM's brain....

I think he takes the cake for experience here. I am ready to pick his brain. I like his idea better than yours about the willow branch hormone....sounds more natural....'

But don't stop, I love to see your avatar.

Hey 'Wonder,

That would either be a very short thread or a very bizzare one. There was a time I was into time travel, via heavy alcohol consumption and passing out. I'd wake up and say; Where am I? What time is it? What day? Why am I in this strange bed? Who the heck is that women with me?....Why is she dead? :wtf: No we don't want to go there.

Emilya,

The only other old farm trick, I've mentioned before; the use of water, yeast and sugar in a glass milk bottle (remember those?) to produce co2. It was my first job on the farm, collecting old ones in the greenhouse dumping them and refill and placing them between the flats of tobacco. But it was also the start of learning about plants, became a lifelong interest. I'll try to see if I can come up with anything else tho.

Thanks both for the kind words.
OM

[WashougalWonder]

Let me put it this way then, I respect my elders. So, we have some time in our life which we aren't so proud of, the good part is we moved beyond that.

Your knowledge with the light spectrums intrigues me, I have a very difficult time translating numbers into concrete stuff, so I try to understand it, not much luck so far, maybe I need one of those classes you took.

Regardless Dude, you got my respect, you speak I listen.

[TANKJR]

Emmie, you have some interesting ways and knowledge...loved the cinnamon idea in the other thread and now your gonna make your own cloning stuff!?!? Can't wait to hear the results, but a little jar of cloning powder I get for like $4 and it's enough to last me at least ten years.....come on, your not really that cheap are ya? LOL!

Yea, I like to read OM's stuff too, WW!...I used to drink like that until I woke up in Canada a 1000 miles from the bar I had gone to the night before, and awoke in a strange hotel room with no pants and no wallet and no memory! Dunno if I killed anybody or not, since I was alone..."I was already drunk at the time"! I don't drink now tho and I haven't been back to Canada since!...There's no substitute for experience, I guess, eh OM? Makes for interesting reading anyhow..

LOL! WW....I like Emmie's av, too! If she says that's her, I'm moving to Mizzou post haste! LMAO!

[tikiroom]

Yeah I have always been fond of that pic myself.

Looking forward to your pics emilya! (of your plants, just to clarify) :thumbsup:

Since we are sharing, and to make OM know it's not just him.
My story goes, got black-out drunk and woke up in jail stripped down to my "wife beater" shirt. No clue how I got their, almost broke my hand from punching the bullet proof glass(still drunk). The real interesting part is that my wallet was gone, and I got a call from a stranger later that day that said he found it. It was found three towns over. :wtf:

But hey live and learn right?

I've never heard of anyone doing this stuff on marijuana, bet yet according to the government its some really deadly stuff.