Houseplant hacks: can willow water act as a rooting hormone?
This is one of those rare homemade concoctions that works, though it might not outperform a good commercial productThe problem Propagation is where good intentions go to die. You take a cutting, pop it in water and wait. Sometimes you are rewarded with roots, sometimes not. So the internet offers an organic aid that sounds almost too folkloric to be true: brew your own rooting hormone from a willow tree.The hack Willow contains indolebutyric acid, auxin (a plant hormone that…
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