Quote 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!