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Re: "Willow Water"

>Folks,
>Does anyone have a recipe for "willow water"   For the uninformed willow
>water is a mix of Weeping Willow branches and water and is supposedly a very
>promising rooting aid and may contain other chemicals that certain
>"difficult to root" woody plants must have to root quicker and more
>successfully.
>
>I would appreciate a specific mixture recipe(s) and any experiences anyone
>has had.  I would like to share this info with my fellow Master Gardeners to
>be(Class of '98).
>
>Thanks In Advance,
>Mauldin Carter
>Pensacola, Florida
>Mcarter3@prodigy.net


I don't think you really need a recipe.  A couple of weeks ago my assistant
brought a huge bunch of cut flowers into the office.  Among them were two
stems of corkscrew willow (Salix torulosa, I think), each about four feet
long (it was a *big* bunch of flowers).  Also included was a section of
dracaena about 18 inches long, the top half foliage and the rest a bare
stem.  She put the whole batch in a large vase and we enjoyed it for quite
a while.  We dumped the flowers as they faded, but the willow, typically,
began to put out roots and leaves.  Roots are now about 6" long, leaves are
almost fully expanded.  The interesting thing is that the dracaena has also
begun to root from sitting in the water with the willow stems.  I don't
think this is the usual method of rooting dracaena (I've been told to
air-layer it), but it's working like a charm.

In short:  get a couple of willow stems and put 'em in some water.  Add
plants you want to root.  Stand back.

Phil
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