Rooting cuttings

[Flummery]

Another 'magic ingredient' to help rooting of difficult things is extract of willow.
Willow is one of the easiest things to root ever - if you root some pieces of willow in water then use the same water for other cuttings it will really increase the likelyhood of sucess. You can also use the same water on cuttings in compost.
I'm sure you could google more details

You mean an aspirin in the water?

[starloc]

I get most chemicals from work, but some it costs me less to buy them on ebay, on ebay.com theres someone selling micropropagation chemicals, most are very usefull if used correctly, they do all the pure clemicals used as rooting hormones as well as some strange ones such as cytokinin , gibberelic acid and kinetin , these 3 are strange you can make things grow branches were you want with them (once roots are strong enough)

Im not sure if this is were i got it on ebay, different name , same area though, same product list as well

eBay Store - PGR Power: Gibberellic Acid, Brassinolide

[binley100]

Woah they seem like scary chemicals . I think I'll stick with just plain H2O otherwise known as corporation pop.

[Flummery]

Woah they seem like scary chemicals . I think I'll stick with just plain H2O otherwise known as corporation pop.

Ha! My grandad used to call it that. That remark takes me back a bit!

[Lovage]

You mean an aspirin in the water?

I know willow has salicylic acid which is an asprin precursor but I think it's more than that.
As willow is so easy to root I think it produces significant ammounts of the plant hormone responsible for root production and this must be present in the water.
Have done a few experiments but will have to try more this year

[BFG]

Ha! My grandad used to call it that. That remark takes me back a bit!

I remember it as "council pop".

[binley100]

I remember it as "council pop".

oops must be showing my age there

[Flummery]

oops must be showing my age there

You're showing mine then! No use ME trying to hide it!

[maypril]

cytokinin , gibberelic acid and kinetin , these 3 are strange you can make things grow branches were you want with them

I've heard about gibberellic acid before, good for getting seeds to germinate apparently. I've been tempted to give some a go on some of my more stubborn types of collected seed.

[maypril]

Woah they seem like scary chemicals . I think I'll stick with just plain H2O

You eat them every day. They're all found in plants. Just because it has a funny sounding name doesn't mean it has to be scary.

I would be wary of Dihydrogen Monoxide though, dangerous stuff!