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Willow tea is a good source of auxins, or natural plant growth hormones. Indolebutyric acid (IBA) and salicylic acid (SA) are highly concentrated in the tips of willow branches. IBA and SA can stimulate root growth and strengthen the overall health of the budding plant; you can make the tea in spring by cutting 2” lengths of willow tips with swollen buds (the hormones are contained in the buds) and soaking them in boiling water until it has cooled. Then strain out the twigs and use the water to soak or as foliar feed by spraying it on leaves during the growing season. Appropriate timing is important when using growth stimulants.


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Hi Nexogen, willow tree is Salix? Any species or one in particular?

Can I use tips from a weeping willow?

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No joke ,100% working.

Yes, I understood. I was asking if it's needed a particular species of willow tree or not.

I had always understood that white willow was the main source of salycetic acid, and also that it was contained in the layer directly under the bark. Salycetic acid is found in the bark of willow, birch and poplar trees, so willow is not your only choice. This does not adress the growth hormones which my untrained brain would think would be in the buds, but then wouldn't they be in the buds of all trees? Maybe this can be clarified.

OK I did it, I cut some willow about 100 feet from the house, and it's cooking on the stove at this time. If this works as well as predicted I will make more, but I will do it when my wife is away. She gave me that look like my mother was right about you wasn't she.

This is a very interesting subject for me. I have some plants that need roots (a mini Phal and a small cactus), but I'm afraid of commercial rooting hormones because of all the safety warnings on them. The problem, though, would be actually finding one of these trees where I would be able to take buds off of it.

Unless I can find some willow tea in a store somewhere.

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