WILLOW WATER - A SECRET RECIPE for growing plants!
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- WILLOW WATER has become part of our propagation routine. It increases the success rate for propagation by cuttings. It also has been shown to greatly increase rooting. In this video we describe how we make willow water, by pounding the young branches and adding them to steep in water. We let the liquid mixture sit for 24 hours then add our cuttings that we gather for propagation. A simple technique to be added to your repertoire of growing techniques.
Originally seen in Harrowsmith magazine's Harrowsmith Reader III, a great publication. In an article 'Productive Pruning' it mentioned the work of Dr. Makoto Kawase, then at the Agriculture Canada experimental station at Morden Manitoba in the early 60's. Here is the original journal citation: Kawase, M. (1964), Centrifugation, Rhizocaline and Rooting in Salix alba L.. Physiologia Plantarum, 17: 855-865. doi:10.1111/j.1399-3054.1964.tb08212.x
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I just had my first experience with willow water. I was rooting some willow in plain water. Roots were coming on well and I decided to put a few cuttings from some red robin and tiny tim tomato plants that I’ve had going in the house for ten years. I could hardly believe how fast they rooted. Even the iffy cuttings rooted like crazy. Very impressive.
I made some willow water about 20 years ago and I successfully rooted som long stem roses from a store bought bouquet. The bush grew and bloomed for years until I pulled it out.
That’s awesome.
Would the spent branches make a good mulch for garden plants?
@@reginaweiner3817 I would be careful about where I put them, as willows will root very easily.
Really impressive considering how you wouldn't normally take a cutting on stems with flowers.
We cut down a contorted willow some years ago. We cut it up, chipped up the smaller diameter pieces then cut the rest into firewood. We missed one chunk about 2 feet long and 3 inches in diameter. That overlooked firewood made itself known when it rooted in several spots along the length of the log and began to grow a few stems of contorted willow. We did not bury any part of that log. It sprouted and sent roots down with no help whatsoever from us. That’s when I learned about the ability of willow to grow under any circumstances. We live in an area of the US with an average rainfall of 17 inches per year. I have to tell you I have been impressed with willow ever since.
Wow I’m going to try that! One time I cut some large curly willow branches and put them in the garage thinking I might use them for something... Over the next 8 months they grew a bunch of vigorous suckers, and then those grew leaves... Frickin amazing plant. Should have tossed them out in the yard.
Mine was supposed to be a weeping willow but it grew up like a beanstalk and then fell in half , this happened several times over the years, so eventually I had it cut down.... incidentally the tree hadn’t planned on that , and grew back with a vengeance... it’s still not weeping, but it’s not a beanstalk anymore , in fact , it’s massive.... by far the biggest tree in my garden... and it’s only ten years old.
I have to keep chopping off branches from the top , in which case I climb up it with an electric hand saw , but only because it grows so much that it can block my view of the night sky from my telescope room , and the only spot without too much light pollution. 🙃 my favourite tree 🥰
we grow it for sale and let me tell you. it will root in the silliest spots. in fact my best tree grows in my chicken coop and i have zero clue how it got there hahaha. probably a bird and a twig
@@carolinebarrett4736 after year two of a willow trees growth cut it down to 18" if you want a really cool bush. every spring you trim back to the original knuckle. dry the stems and make really cool decorations
I freeze some of my willow water to be ready in early spring, works just as well. Keep the videos coming Stefan and Zack, they are great!
Yeah freeze willows before watering. It destroy cells and makes hormones more available.
Good idea
Harrowsmith was my fav back before internet. One method I heard of is to simply place a willow branch into water along with the plant you are rooting. Using an air bubbler adds to the success rate.
Yes i have had much success exactly that way minus the bubbler
Bubbler really good for making compost tea, so you can get multi use out of it which is a permaculture principles!
This is spot on. You can rip a branch off a willow tree, stick it in the ground, and it will root itself into a tree. We planted 50+ willow trees just from trimming up one willow tree. Maybe 2 or 3 of the sticks did not root. Tons of hormones in there!
Never have heard of willow water until now, intriguing.
I've used willow water and it definitely helps. No controlled tests but it seems to make a big difference especially for rooting cuttings from woody plants. I also use it to water new transplants and it seems to reduce the transplant shock considerably.
Great tip! I’m going to make a vat of the stuff 😆
I have only ever used one type of branch, from the same tree. Not many willows where I live. I’ve never heard that you need branches from different varieties. Mine works great with just one variety.
Good for cuttings, not existing plant roots. Keep that in mind. Could rot the roots quicker. There's a university study. I stopped using willow water for transplants myself.
I use it as root stimulator on most everything! I boil my tender branches and leaves for a moment to make concentrate, then pour about 1 quart concentrated Willow Water to 5 gallons of tap water. An old farmer taught me this! I wonder if boiling it down kills the hormone, but it doesn't seem to!
Willow is rich in Salicylic Acid, which is the hormone needed for rooting. I am adding leaves to my compost and to weed tea. I used to use Asprin to promote rooting (Asprin is Acetyl Salicylic Acid) but now I am intending to go 100% natural. After watching your video I will try the willow water also. Thank you
Yes, willow contains salicylic acid which acts as a kind of immunity booster for plants. It also contains Indo butyric acid. It is this that increases rooting potential, not salicylic acid
Aspirin is actually detrimental to plants and doesn't help rooting at all. This is utter internet BS, as shown for example in this real life experiment: ua-cam.com/video/MlNDsGOkLIs/v-deo.html
I learn so much from your videos!! Thanks from Saskatchewan!
Just to mention that Aloe Vera is another plant you can use for cuttings and transplants.
Hervé ARNAUD how? Could you please share?
@@mercedesaschenbrenner9352 squish the juice out of an aloe plant onto the cutting, thats it!
I took a 6 inch round 3ft long Willow branch put it a bucket of water 15 years ago. Now it's a 30ft tall 20ft round tree, that I use for this purpose and I have done millions of willow water feeding on my garden and get beautiful BIG veggies.
Fantastic
that was my question ive been trying to answer all morning...if i could use that same willow water on established, in ground plants, would that help their root growth? im going to be using this on all of my edibles because i want them to grow most of all.thank you!
@@robmontgomery9711 Yes I keep willow branches in a buckets of water untiill they start to root. Then use the water, I have been getting 18-20 inch long Cucumbers 10-12 in carrots, red beets fist size. You will notice massive improvements with all veggies my beans grow 6-7 in long. What you will notice most next year is that plants flower faster grow thicker much faster in the spring, and when you clean up this fall the root system will be much larger. For fun don't use it on one tomato plant and see how much smaller the root system is and how much smaller the fruits are. As well as how much longer the willow watered one will fruit for late into the year. Once you start doing this you will wonder how you could get plants to grow at all, it's free IMO works better than any store bought plant food.
In my country we use indian almond leave water,dried leave soaking in water for two to three days until turn yellow like tea,then we dip the cuttings in it to speed up the rooting
Thanks Bob always nice to hear what works in different climates.
We knew about willow water for decades before it was shown in youtube. But we use smaller pieces of willow stem cuttings THAT ARE NEW AND YOUNG and putting them in an all metal hand powered blender to liquify it and pouring it all in a container and allow it to remain untouched and covered for 24 hours or overnight. Then we start using it as a rooting solution. But for the most part, we use any willow tree varieties and any parts of it as long as it is easily workable.
How would you use it ?
@@rocklady3317 After blending and liquifying and steeping it in water over night, we just place the bottom parts of the plant cuttings in it, about 1-4th to 1-3rd of it's total height or lenght and wait until it has started to root. Others mix it with clean sand to form a wet sand mixture or humus to form a wet humus mixture containing the water-based liquified willow rooting hormone and just simply inset the plant cuttings into it in a clean place. Others even build a 4 sided pyramind based on the Giza Pyramid or a 3 sided pyramind based on the Tetrahedron Pyramid and places it there in the middle and at the 2sd level zone section (for example: if the pyramid is 3 meters high then put them in the 2sd meter zone section). Personally my technique is to soak one half of it in a jar filled one half of that blended willow water solution and wait to the roots to form. Simpler and cheaper!
Are you familiar with Rural Route magazine? Lots of commonsense and up-to-date info, great shares frm readers, especially the recipes that still get made in Nova Scotia & surrounding Maritime provinces. Not as thick as Harrowsmith, not as flashy but just as important for people who are farming, cheese making, brewing, whatever helps their lives have control & success.
Never heard of it, good one thanks.
Stefan, thank you for your time explaining how you use willow water.
Thanks for this video. I heard about willow water a while ago and really wanted to try it. I need to trim my hibiscus and want to wait til I can try to root the cuttings with said water. I have been coveting a willow tree since forever but may just have to sneak cuttings from one in a public area.... 👀
Never knew about this. Anxious to try it. I make many grape vine cuttings each year. Getting some to root is always challenging. The ‘America’ cultivar is notoriously difficult to get to root. Now I have a secret weapon! Also have some others from China that seem to be resistant to rooting. Definitely encouraged now.
I've gotta try this! I have some haskap, grape, flowering crab, lilac and honeysuckle I'd like to prop. And I definitely remember Harrowsmith :D
I've had good success with houseplants cuttings using pothos or spiderplant in the water as they root readily.
I used to subscribe to Harrowsmith magazine!!! I remember the TV show too!
When I first saw your video title, I thought it was structured water (see Gerald Pollak 's Cells, Gels). But after watching it, I am reminded of Korean Natural Farming's Fermented Natural Juice (FPJ). It makes things grow.
OMG I've always wanted a weeping willow in our backyard by the creek. I'm coveting your beautiful weeping willow. :) There are ancient upright willows but none weeping.
grate
We have two weeping willows in our acre. I’m in California
I swear by it. I make a tea n all my plants love it. A great plant has lots of roots.
You can even sing when you do it 😊💕😊💕 thanks, glad I found this channel going to be using these tips this year!
Aspirin tea,awesome Mr Greenman! Have a great day in your snowy paradise
I have truly enjoyed your videos on gardening and learning about weeds. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Great video, looking forward to seeing the next step when you take cuttings!
science, religion, and monetary system all similar and cannot be challenged..
love the rant at the end. so passionate yet so peaceful. usually rant implies some sort of hate. them canadians aye? love it!!
How fortuitous! I need to move my raspberry patch over. I will try this! Thanks
We have a water willow; I am 100% going to try this!❤ (Gonna test this on house plant cuttings hehe.)
Have fun!
I've been wanting to try this -- Gotta find willow around here.
I’m in California, and have 2 weeping Willow trees…where are you located?
Great demonstrations in this video. Thanks!
Oh man, you are crazy, i love it !
I am not in position in my life to grow ANYTHING, But… I am from generations of farmers… l will store away this valuable info
Willow contains chemicals that rooting hormones contain. What I read is the chemicals keep wounds open for longer to increase the chance of rooting. Considering willow itself roots with zero problem.
As the active ingredient in aspirin comes from willow you can use aspirin also.
I forgot all about willow water! Thanks!
you are very smart and knoledgebel and fuuny i like to come and see your farm and buy things for my futuer farm hopefully.thanks for shairing.
Great video... have an enormous willow tree in my garden , definitely going to try this , as the rooting powder I bought sucks.. the only successful propagation I’ve had so far is ivy in rain water 🙃 ... and this is out of sooooo many cuttings.
+1 et Bravo ^_^
On dit que les véritables racines d'un arbre sont ses branches qui tendent vers le ciel, elles tendent vers l'essence ciel ... Un alchimiste dirait que votre 1er œuvre pour séparer le grossier du près cieux passe par le voie humide avec de l'eau ... En occident, on a pour coutume d'utiliser la voie sèche par le feu souvent symbolisé par le corbeau noir, ce volatile sombre ... Bref, désolé pour mon passage al-chimique ^_^ lol
En effet, le saule est une excellente essence de bouture, merci pour nous partager tes techniques fréro ^_^
Very informative, Thanks! 🌺🌸🌼
Finally a sensible willow video!
This is very interesting. I will try it in the next couple of weeks. Thank you for sharing your wonderful information.
Yes I root my plants with Willow water especially kush
I'll give it a try. Interesting.
white willow bark is natures pain killer too. ASA
You're adorable. Thanks for the info!
Thanks for watching!
Hmmmmmm, gives me ideas for an aquaponics system nutrients mixture : )))
Thank you
LOL ❣️So fun!!!
Thank Yous! 🌞💜😃
Excellent! No more rooting hormone for me.
You will still need it willow sont always work
Thanks for the video I am trying to propagate trees to start an orchard this and the video on root stock very useful. As well as the Apple grower by Michael Philips. For anyone else who is starting out 😀cheers
I shall look into the book after I have learnt how to spell your name 😀
Oh it's a film OK 👍
Could you, please, add to your comment above, cuttings of what trees and bushes you root and how you do it. Thank you very much for all your helping videos. I really learned a lot for myself.
Check out the videos of cuttings and layering. We root red and black currant, gooseberry, aronia, willow, elderberry with the technique of cut a piece of this years growth and stick it.
Thanks!
I had 15 cannabis seeds. I soaked them in willow water overnight then sowed them in peat pellets, also soaked in willow water. Every single one of the germinated within 3 days. I've never had such a fast strike rate with cannabis seeds!
Good to know.
I have also heard aloe vera works well too without any rooting hormone. Another thing: have you tried sprouted seed tea? I think alfalfa was the seed I saw a video about a while ago.
Have made some while growing sprouts but never tried it. Good to know.
Finally located a weeping willow tree a few days ago. I grabbed a large handful of branches. Crunched them down to fit into a 2 liter plastic bottle (top cut off) and filled it with water. It has been 48 hours now and I’m soaking some nectarine cuttings in the willow water. I also scored the base of the cuttings through the cambium with a razor knife. How long should the cuttings be left in the willow water? I was also thinking of rooting a few of the willow branches so I’d have a willow tree for future willow water.
Doh! I didn’t smash them first! Pulled them out and smashed them. Suppose I should let them steep 48 hours again. Then put my nectarines in the WW.
It’s ok just leave the nectarines in the concentration of auxin goes up in the fist two days.
chlorinated water? also what about drying the shoots to use later? I had great success btw using willow leaves and potting soil on a tomato plant in a terracotta pot. The roots grew about 8 to 10 inches down into the soil below the pot and the only things left besides roots were worm castings and nightcrawlers.
Great idea to water your potted plants. I never tried with chlorinated water but leave your water sit for 24h before using it.
bravisimo signior
willow or meadowsweet water work well on pruning cuts, preventing canker in the new cuts even on a cankered tree 💚
Great stuff, especially phD rant ;) But seriously, please tell us what cuttings you use willow water with and when it is the best time to propagate from cuttings. I have tried to use willow water in the past, but I was told that willow branches need to be boiled in water first (which possibly destroys any hormones), so apparently I had no success with it. I will surely try your method, many thanks for sharing.
All the fruiting shrubs: black and red currant, gooseberry, haskap, aronia. Will try on sea berry and, Apple rootstock.
Is it still a good time now to try this, or better wait until spring? Here autumn has hit hard, we expect first night frosts soon.
@@StefanSobkowiak even blueberry?
Why some people suggest to take off the leaves?
I just did this with the leaves on as you showed
Here in the UK I use willow water that's simmered I find it concentrates the hormone a little bit more.
What do you mean by simmered? Do you heat the water like for tea?
@@StefanSobkowiak I hear the water up to just below boiling and keep it hot but not let it boil. If you boil it I've found that it doesn't work. I think boiling kills the hormone or at least destroys alot of it.
Could you use the water as nourishment to increase growth, fruiting, older trees, plants? Would it help?
Yes and probably yes.
I would love to see a video on using this willow water. I presume you just dip a stalk and plant but maybe you need to let it soak for so long. How deep does the stalk need to be dipped, etc. Thanks.
Coming up.
I've tried with pressure cooker to soften the branches and extract the good stuff.
I have no clue if it will work or not. It's my first time with this!
I don't know if the high heat will degrade the hormone and salicylic acid. It's probably not the best way to extract it.
Theses compound are almost not soluble in water (0.25g/1000ml water), slightly more in hot water.
It will be more efficient in alcohol or acetone.. But it's more expensive.
Very informative. I really enjoy your videos guys. Curious, would the water work as a compost tea, to spray on plants to help with insects? Just in general I mean.
In general a nutritious spray will benefit the plants, happy plant healthy plant, healthy plants don’t attract most insects.
Awesome! Willow will be in my arsenal
I knew nothing about willow water, I learnt recently about aloe's gel with the same properties. Many years ago I successfully planted many trees by dipping them in a 1/3 fresh manure, 1/3 clay, 1/3 water cream. I watered those trees just a couple of times and they all rooted very well - some are now over 30 ft tall!!!
Can't beat fresh manure for the head start.
"Water cream"? Please kindly explain
I put willow leaves and twigs in my vegetable garden as mulch. You think this is a good idea?
Yes as long as they don’t root and start to grow.
ahahah you're sweet and that 'rant' edit was hilarious 😆
Pretty interesting, I've made nettle water a couple of times for the nitrogen but never heard of willow hormones. Do you have any recommendations on which plants to use it or is it good for everything?
all cuttings will benefit, also transplants will root faster.
cool, thanks
The original research was used on mung beans. But then used on hard to root plants like maples.
I wonder what analogues to this would be in other climates?
Maybe native Salixes of the area?
Is this for green cuttings, or dormant cuttings too? Only soak the cuttings in the water 24 hours?
Both. Can be longer but 24 hours works.
Willow water 👍👍 I'm going to try basswood and box elder. They r prolific too. I wonder if walnut would work. Is it the tannins? I just pour in the soil. Massive roots. I do mine on the stove like tea. U can dilute as it can get pretty dark. I have access to some kinda willow that grows in wet spots.
Always worth a try even if it’s just for fun.
Wow
Do you think using willow water as everday water might help stronger root growth in already established plants or maybe rasberry divisions?
Yes it will work for most plants. Not sure about raspberry but try it and let me know how it worked.
Back when I used to live in Auto and how to build a thousand house plants I used to water them regularly with an aspirin in the water and they responded really well to that.
I believe willow water is good for most all plants! Also don't forget, try and use mostly rain water if possible!!
friend made a willow chair as a woodworking project in a dirt floor basement. when he finished it he left it to dry and it rooted into the cellar and began to sprout.
Wow, yes willow wants to root.
Would this work for tree cuttings? For example, if I have an apple tree and the root stock suckers, could I clip the sucker, root it with this stuff, plant it out, let it get established, then clip a scion from one of my productive trees and graft? That saves me like $25 for the rootstock and $25 for the scion each time it happens...
Yes but if you have a sucker coming out of the ground you can dig it up. Aerial suckers you can try, some fruit trees easier than others. Peach and mulberry are easier than apple.
Have you tried this? How did it go?
Now that I’ve seen two of these videos, I’ve decided I’ll run the little willows branches through my chipper and soak it for 24 hours.
and no Headaches even though you hit your fingers nice bandage on the young fellow they get Asprin from willow bark
I’ve witnessed 10s of years old willow stump/branch root in a bucket of water alone. Maybe 8 or more inches wide
I wish i had Willow trees nearby
Not sure if you mentioned this, you can water your cuttings with the leftover willow water!
You can.
a juice roller works good for getting liquid from willow
instead of beating your branches up with a hammer try find a spot in your yard you just mowed and set your stems on the ground and run the mower over them , turn the pile over and mow again. Do this a few times till you get the texture you want.
Dammit I was told to clean all the leaves off on another channel hahah oh well thanks for the heads up I will just leave the um leaves next time!
Can you use willow water for just watering my plants?
Yes
Could putting the willow into a wood shredder work? Because it makes little pieces the interior of the willow is very exposed. Could that work?
Yes if you have one.
What would you recommend for planting bare root saplings? For how long would be advisable to soak the saplings in the willow water?
Never used it for saplings but 1-2 days should work as long as the buds haven’t popped open. When not in dormancy some trees are killed by flooding, especially some cherries.
@@StefanSobkowiak Thank you for your answer Mr. Sobkowiak!
Of all the different willow trees is there specific ones that you use for making your rooting water? White willow or?
Most likely. Willows are the easiest to root and it’s the hormone that does it. That’s what you want to extract.
So the cuttings root in the willow water?
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Can freezing it prolong it further?
You can make it fresh at any time of year, even when dormant. Never tried freezing.
Would oxygenation assist with production of hormones?
Good question, I don’t know. Test it with a simple with and without test.
@@StefanSobkowiak First, need to find someone with a willow tree.
Garbanzo and lentils also have that property
Would you say pulses/legumes in general? And use the soaking water to hydrate new turgid cuttings the way Stephan said?
I saw a video of a guy using germinated beans instead, would it work?
I never tried it, try it.
@@StefanSobkowiak Wow, thanks for the answer! I was expecting some random viewer to reply instead...
I just do small 'balcony' gardening, and I'm not yet at a stage where I can test and evaluate the results properly, as I tend to mix stuff around.
But since you answered I will try it out. My only concern is that I've never had problem with cuttings not rooting, and I do it just for vegetables, so I dont know how much reliable would my 'control' set be.
Regarding the other youtuber, I've seen both legit and fake 'tricks' of him, but has the logic presented for the mixture, regarding the rooting hormones, was the same as here, I thought that in the least I could fish for someone who had heard or tried it.
Anyway, thanks for the videos and the reply, your chanel is very rich and helpful, I've shared a couple of the 'x is and indicator of...' videos with several friends!
-And I'll make sure to post the reply here, when I find it
used withies can still be fed to goats etc.
do you leave the cuttings in willow water until they root? or just dip them. I currently try propagating by leaving cuttings in a glass of water and changing water every 2/3 days. Would this water always need to be willow water? It seems clear how to make the willow tea, but not how to apply it.
Just 24 hours needed, you can leave them longer.
@@StefanSobkowiak ok, so 24hrs to "steep" (leave willow leaves+stems in water to leech their hormones), once you have your willow water, how do you apply it to your plant cutting, that you wish to propagate? I've propagating some basil by just leaving the basil cuttings in a glass of water for like 2 weeks until a good few roots sprout, then put it in soil. How can you apply willow water to this situation? Would you swap out the tap water soak for the willow water ? Thank you for your help! I am only a beginner.
Just water the cuttings with willow water.
Just 'Beat it' ;-)
Would growing out of willow wood chips work well?
Yes. I saw a study forwarded by a friend that showed using single species wood chips gives certain results based on the chip species. Fascinating.