Willow water

hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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Lucky Luke said:
Would anyone have a Willow water recipe? I've got a willow tree and would like to make some willow water for cloning.
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Willow water is made from the twigs or branches of the willow tree. These twigs are immersed in water for a certain amount of time and then either used for watering newly planted shrubs and trees, as well as seedlings, or by soaking the cuttings in the willow water prior to planting.Jan 12, 2018

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/projects/making-willow-water.htm
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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hotrodharley said:
Willow water is made from the twigs or branches of the willow tree. These twigs are immersed in water for a certain amount of time and then either used for watering newly planted shrubs and trees, as well as seedlings, or by soaking the cuttings in the willow water prior to planting.Jan 12, 2018

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/projects/making-willow-water.htm
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Cheers, recipe in that link. Thanks man!

"a couple cups worth of freshly fallen branches or cut the twigs directly from the tree. These should be no bigger than a pencil, or about half an inch in diameter. Remove any leaves and break or cut them into 1- to 3-inch pieces. Actually, the shorter (about an inch), the better. This allows more of the auxin hormone, which encourages root growth, to leach out. Steep the twigs in about half gallon of boiling water, leaving them for about 24 to 48 hours".
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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Lucky Luke said:
Cheers, recipe in that link. Thanks man!

"a couple cups worth of freshly fallen branches or cut the twigs directly from the tree. These should be no bigger than a pencil, or about half an inch in diameter. Remove any leaves and break or cut them into 1- to 3-inch pieces. Actually, the shorter (about an inch), the better. This allows more of the auxin hormone, which encourages root growth, to leach out. Steep the twigs in about half gallon of boiling water, leaving them for about 24 to 48 hours".
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I learned something reading that. Never heard of it. Glad you asked.
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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I’m definitely going to be trying this in the next few weeks. Winter coming here and I am going to wait until the last minute to clone this big Cherry Bomb outside. I have plants in flower that should be done by third week of October. Run a tent full of those CB clones. But this sounds interesting and I’m going to do this with the cuttings. Plus save some willow limbs while I can before the snow flies in case it’s really effective.
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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hotrodharley said:
I’m definitely going to be trying this in the next few weeks. Winter coming here and I am going to wait until the last minute to clone this big Cherry Bomb outside. I have plants in flower that should be done by third week of October. Run a tent full of those CB clones. But this sounds interesting and I’m going to do this with the cuttings. Plus save some willow limbs while I can before the snow flies in case it’s really effective.
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Should be really effective. My willow tree came from the local river, just a small branch that got stuck into the ground. Ive been meaning to try it for awhile.
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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Lucky Luke said:
Should be really effective. My willow tree came from the local river, just a small branch that got stuck into the ground. Ive been meaning to try it for awhile.
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Yeah put one where there’s water or give them water and willows rock. In the Southwest we had Navajo Globe willows. Beautiful symmetrically shaped with a lot of shade. Thirsty buggers they’ll send roots way deep.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Willow water contains IBA "Indole Butyric Acid" as well as salicylic acid. IBA is also a commonly used ingredient in rooting solutions. Growing up we had a large willow tree in the backyard. This was before I was growing cannabis so I never even thought about using it for making a cloning solution. My father liked to pull branches off to use as a switch on my backside when I got in trouble.
 
grilledcheese101

grilledcheese101

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I do it a couple different ways, as i havent determined what i like better, i need to look into the boiling points and evap points for both salicylic and iba3 in order to determine the most potent recipe.

All willow trees work but, white willows have the most benificials.

Both recipes require NEW GREEN SHOOTS. (Currently my only way of measing potency is by how much the end product colour changes, should go nearly blood red. New green shoots contain the crap were after.)

Strip the leaves clean off of the shoots. I cut 16 inch strips and pull them thru my fingers, striping all the leaves. The leaves are waste, or compost.

I like to collect alot, if im using a 4 gal pot ill fill it half way with loose stem material.

Now this is where the 2 methods differ,

Method 1

Measure enough water to cover all your material in a pot, you wanna fill it about 2" past ur material line.

Bring water to a boil, add all of your material and leave the pot on low overnight 12 hrs give or take.

Strain and contain.

Should be a blood red colour.

Method 2 (cold extraction)

Same as last method just use a bigger bucket and more water.

Let sit in a cold dark space for 5-7 days stiring ocasionaly.

Strain and contain.

Should be blood red.




You can also go a step further and allow it to evap into a extremely small batch and use as a clone dip. I want to try playing around with drying it into powders aswell.


I use it pretty liberally, never over done it yet, iv dumped a half gal on a plant before with no ill affects, but i genereally use a couple tbps per gal.
 
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