I have willow trees near the stock tank and a friend of mine boiled some of the tender limbs to make a root hormone. I just buy mine in powder form. Have some tomatoe suckers growing little roots. I also planted some onion bottoms dusted with root hormone and fertilizer then planted them. There are some little green leaves showing. My celery just sat there and got funny looking.
In our community garden, we had some huge zuccinis, some of made mini bread loaves and gave them away at the Market.
Very interesting all these root bottoms that everyone is experimenting with and using to grow more stuff.
Was just reading your post while catching up on the thread. I had just done a search, and found an article on willow.
Thanks for confirming what I just found!
http://deepgreenpermaculture.com/diy-instructions/home-made-plant-rooting-hormone-willow-water/
Onion bottoms...are these like grocery store onions that have the hairy root still attaches that you have sliced off and started with root powder? If so, I think I could do that too!
“My celery just sat there and got funny looking.”
Are you saying you put root powder on a cut off celery? I have just been trying that, and while it started generating roots, it hasn’t done anything else. I’ve been wondering if I should let it sit til Kingdom Come, to see what it does, or if I should give it up as a bad job. The heck of it is, that the celery stump has generated a LOT of very strong looking rootlets, so it has been hard to just give up on it!
I’ve had real good results with romaine stumps. I planted my first experiment and it is growing some gorgeous leaves! The second one has generated some wonderful rootlets and is starting to grow the leaves. I think in a few days I will plant it as well.