Apologies if you read a similar post in 2019 in praise of Salyclic Acid.
I don't always buy rooting hormone powder to 'strike' or 'root plant cuttings. Most of the time I just stick the cutting in a plant pot filled with compost and water it every few days.
However you can always make your if you live near a willow tree. There's lots of pussywillow catkins flowering in the countryside at the moment.
I made some of my tightwad hormone rooting solution Salyclic Acid) this very afternoon:
Willow cut into one inch pieces and placed in my homemade Lucozade bottle vase or Vaze if you live over the Pond.
The vase is filled with cold tap water from our well which I dowzed for with a forked willow stick. It's 120 feet deep and it came to the top of the pipe without a pump being installed. True story!
The Acyclic acid seeps out of the small twigs and helps Mother Nature do miracles and roots will grow on your cuttings when you dip them in the solution.
Willow is used for Cricket bats, the bark for Aspirin and the herbal treatment for psoriasis. It's also useful for rooting your cuttings.👍
Well, I didn't know that! What a wonderful thing is a Willow tree.
ReplyDeleteIndeed it is JayCee. We have so many plants and trees that have so many uses both medicinally and practically. They call willow Sally's in Ireland. I wonder if its because the Latin name for Willow is Salix? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteCould you dissolve an aspirin in water and use that, I wonder
ReplyDeleteI don't see why not Traveller. Aspirins in a vase of cut flowers prolong their lives.
ReplyDeleteNice vaze. Very practical.
ReplyDeleteCheers Tigger. It's neet!😊 It's a work of art like Andy Warhols Campbell Soup painting. Do you think the Tate will buy it and exhibit it with the pile of bricks? It's a limited edition. I will even sign it. Banksy never thought of Lucozade art did he?
ReplyDeleteWe can't think of any reason at all why you shouldn't sell it to the Tate for an eye-watering amount of money - particularly given other examples of art from everyday objects that have fetched retirement-fund-prices for what was apparently not a great deal of effort. You will of course need to make up some densely worded narrative to explain (or obfuscate) its 'meaning'. Maybe that bit is where the money is.
Delete"All Art is quite useless". Oscar Wilde.
DeleteMy vaze is useful Tigger so perhaps it's not art? Lucozade was originally called Glucozade and was invented in 1927 and said to be a 'pick me up" for sick people. I would like a Lucozade hat or a Lucozead T shirt and jacket. I wonder if they exist?
We have a huge willow in the middle of our lawn. Can't remember how many times we've had it cut back, but it never takes the hint. At least it's good for something.
ReplyDeleteCricket bats? I would love a dwarf weeping Willow The Veg Artist. Good to hear from you. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI think a male witch is a warlock and by the sound of it, you are one of them! Not Neil Warnock but Dave Warlock!
ReplyDeleteYeah I'm a sensitive YP. I've gone from Evangelical Christianity, to Socialism to Pantheism. I still like my Man U and my Prog and Newky Brown.
ReplyDeleteSo one could get the same results by dissolving and aspirin in water?
ReplyDeleteIgnore that, Traveller said the same thing.
ReplyDeleteI don't know River but Willow definitely works to encourage roots.
ReplyDeleteGood to see that method being used
ReplyDeleteYes GZ it's great to discover and use nature's natural resources. Perhaps I should have been an herbalist? There's so many plants on our doorsteps that we have forgot about their beneficial uses.
ReplyDeleteA dip in Custard Powder works really well too.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sue Jay. I didn't know that!
ReplyDeleteHoney also works a treat. Sometimes you will get a little packet of honey with your breakfast biscuits or tea. I put that packet in my pocket. It makes a good rooting compound as well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Debby. I think it's more of an antiseptic protecting the cuttings from plant diseases and also is a good fungicide to prevent them from rotting. Thanks for the honey tip.
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