Houseplant hacks: can willow water act as a rooting hormone?

This is one of those rare homemade concoctions that works, though it might not outperform a good commercial product The problem Propagation is where good intentions go to die. You take a cutting, pop it in water and wait. Sometimes you are rewarded with roots, sometimes not. So the internet offers an organic aid that sounds almost too folkloric to be true: brew your own rooting hormone from a willow tree. The hack Willow contains indolebutyric acid, auxin (a plant hormone that is the ma...

By Gynelle Leon