Rooting Hormone

[Bianca LoBue]

Successful clones with a certain product?    

[wes]

There are so many natural ways to start a plant from a cutting and get them to root. One trick is just dip the cut stem in honey and then plant it in the growing media and wam you have a new rooted plant. Just Google natural ways to root tone a plant cutting. Root tone is the defacto product name and brand that comes to my mind though.

[Steve R]

I use olivias cloning gel to clone just about anything in my garden. I'v used others iv just ended up liking this one the best. 

[Pat James]

Yesterday, I saw a video that talked about using roots from water hyacinth to make a rooting hormone. Haas anybody here tried this?

[Steve R]

I would not advise that water hyacinth I have heard is toxic if eaten by humans. I have always been told that you dont want to put in it ponds where a kid might eat it. 

[Bob Campbell]

I've never used water hyacinth, but in the amounts you are likely to use toxicity is hardly an issue.   You don't want to eat commercial rooting hormones either.   I grow willows for the Salicylic Acid which is good for fever and headache while the indolebutyric acid (IBA) is a good rooting hormone.   I'll have to check into water hyacinth - I love to use natural methods.

Children could eat them. But there are a wide variety of many other poisonous plants and unless you research each you probably already have a few.  The oxalic acid is a poison.  Within a minute or two your mouth will feel like your are chewing broken glass. I know from experience what it feels like and I'll admit I thought I might die..