I use Dip-N-Grow. Just got another pint for $43.00, but I can dip over 5-6 thousand Muscadine Cuttings each season using less than one bottle. What I really like about this stuff you can dip 10 or more cuttings at a time. Great Stuff.
One of my earlier comments inferred that you are a natural instructor. So the University of Mike is a reality and all is right in the universe. Another great video...thank you!
Thank you for clarifying the cinnamon and honey for people. As a propagator I hear all kinds of crazy things. I have friends who swear by honey and one things cinnamon is heaven's gift and just can't believe there are no hormones in it even though their success is limited. Smh. I hadn't tried aloe. Gee that was great timing to hear... I am heading to the nursery today. Aloe on my list...One more plant to run rooting experiments with. Thanks Mike. 😁
Cinnamon works great to stop the fungal growing in seed starting trays when using a potting mix. I have used it a few times for the same reason when I have had to root cuttings in a potting mix. I have a fine mesh sifter that I use to apply the Cinnamon to the surface of the potting mix before planting vegetable seeds.
Great to know it. Thanks for your dedication and devotion to plants and trees. As a non native English speaker, I congratulate you for your fine articulation. I understand virtually it all and that contributes to taking the best out of your information.
@@MikeKincaid79 Hey Mike, can I use this for creating callus around a grafting area (chip-bud grafting for example)? Or is there another type of hormone for that?
I have read many labels on rooting hormones and have discovered most of them say not to use with anything that provides food, like fruit trees! Clonex is the first one I found that did not say that. I have tried and failed every time with honey, cinnamon and willow water. Thanks for the video!
Hey Mike, I have a Mulberry tree in my front yard I love eating from. I had been watching your videos and finally decided to try some cuttings myself. 2 weeks!!!! and a few of my cuttings are showing amazing roots! Thanks for the pointers and push! Edit: Thought I should add I used clonex.
@@MikeKincaid79 Hopefully it's a green thumb, been contemplating taking a master gardener class!? Thanks for all the videos, I didn't know anything about cuttings until a month or two ago.
So did you get male or female mulberries? I got some cuttings from my Dads female mulberry tree, but only got one female tree from a dozen cuttings. The hummingbirds eat the pollen from the male trees, but you only need one male in a small yard.
Thanks Mike for this vital information on rooting hormone products. I have recently been experimenting with aloe vera from my local grocery store. For cutting and making aloe vera water for my plants. Full of natural minerals and hormones.
After watching your video I looked at the rooting hormone bottle I purchased this past spring at my local garden shop. The ingredients on the bottle read (Indole-3- butyric acid …ONLY … point one percent.) Thanks for the video, I just got educated.
I stick my cuttings in water sometimes (depending on plant)until i get roots then put into soil with Mykos (beneficial fungi) and Azos (beneficial bacteria) dusted all over the hole/roots. The clones takeoff like the F22 Raptor! ***Pro tip*** If you are having fungi or mold problems just use honey or cinnamon FTW 🎉🎉🎉
You mentioned using willow for rooting. Willow is so good for this that I have rooted willow sticks that were three inches in diameter without anything be water and soil.
Glad I found your chanel. I have been rooting mostly Roses for a couple years now. I think they root equally with and without rooting hormone. The younger stems do best in my experience.
Mike I appreciate your knowledge on this subject of different types of hormones! I don’t think I’ve heard much about this before and it’s a bit confusing to someone who just enjoys it for my own personal pleasure of seeing beauty and being surrounded by things that I have spent time doing since I bought my first home. My 2nd home I even went a little more into seeing how things plants would grow in my area without reading any books on the subject. I’ve definitely had some die but it was worth the effort to try and fail than never try at all. You are a great source of inspiration and fun to watch your channel. 👍
I use young willow branches and put them in a blender then let them soak in my bucket of water for a day then dunk my orchids in it or water other plants :) it does work. I tried the clonex too, sadly it's too expensive and with some very sensitive plants I think we can overdose it so it does more harm than help, so I prefer what nature provides for free :) I use cinnamon powder too, but only on wounds that I like to dry up fast, indeed it's a natural antiseptic, however if it drops on fresh healthy roots it can dry them so I'd be cautious.
I would really enjoy some videos about using willow or other natural methods. We will soon be needing to root lots of cuttings, and this is something I have never had much success so I am a bit nervous!
Hey Mike, amazing job. I really appreciate your effort with real facts not myths. This video must have benefited many, and may God reward you for this . Aamen
Thank you so much! I have been using Clonex without much results and at this time I can't afford the Hormodin 3 so the Dip and Grow is the way I will go.
Hi Mike. I was able to get 98% pure IBA powder (2% inert ingredients). How do you think I can use it? I want to use as a solution in an aeroponic cloner (DIY). Thanks
Hey there Mike - you are a man of Science. You could set up an experiment with 8 groups of cuttings with 10 or so cuttings in each - something that is plentiful but might be a little difficult to root and treat each group with a different rooting hormone. 3 in each of your synthetic hormones, one in cinnamon, one in honey, one in Aloe Vera gel, one in willow water and the last with nothing as a control. It could be interesting.
Great explanation. Honey I have doubts about, most of its anti-microbal properties are just due to the high osmotic pressure of the saturated sugar, add some water and it easily ferments [mead]. I think beeswax is a source for 1-triacontonol, but its not directly useable. Water of young coconuts (white shell not brown) contains a lot of hormones including the cytokinin Zeatin along with some vitamins and minerals, this coconut water is sometimes used for 10% of the growth media in tissue culture. (they call it coconut milk in the labs but it is the really the water, not the milk for curry that is made from nut-meat.) Kinetin was discovered in autoclaved herring semen, BAP is a synthetic cytokinin as far as I recall but is popular for effectiveness and a big cost advantage over Zeatin (discovered in corn plants). I might fiddle with some coconut water but I kind of want to wait until I can afford some labware to de-sugar it so I don't get a sticky mess. (I wonder if zeatin would survive yeast fermentation and alcohol removal with vacuum distillation) So many variants on each hormone category too; 2,4-D(the herbicide) is an auxin and popular in tissue culture labs, but not appropriate for rooting cuttings. I just read a research paper comparing 2,4-D with NAA in-vitro(I forget the species) and the 2,4-D stimulated cell division at tested concentrations but not cell elongation, while NAA at low concentration stimulated cell elongation with cell division only at high concentrations. Another paper, on rooting stimulation of in-vitro hazelnut showed that a small addition of cytokinin boosted the effectiveness of the auxins. They used IBA and Kinetin at IBA:kn of 50:5 mg/L. 10:1 IBA:kn was also the ratio used in another paper to drench bud grafts of mulberries made in September, with significant boost in both % success and shoot size from the grafts, with 60:6 and 90:9 mg/L having solid results 90:9 was the strongest tested) I'm going to do some rooting tests this year with Dip'nGrow supplemented with BAP(6-benzylamniopurine) in whatever that molar ratio of IBA to kinetin works out to be.
Sorry I'm still going on about the PGRs, I forgot to mention silver thiosulfate has some uses as it can act as an ethylene inhibitor, in the cuttings of some species this is just what the auxin is doing. To be sure, this is micromoles or small parts per thousand levels, silver salts quickly get toxic if used in too high of a dose, thiosulfate ions also contribute something to rooting or ethylene inhibition but they are pretty benign and even found in several fertilizers as a source of S.
Aspirin comes from willow bark :) Granted we now synthesize it but original it was made from willow bark (TL;DR willow bark is a very old home remedy from the past and a few scientists wish to find out why it worked the compound used to make aspirin is what they discovered reduced pain/inflammation)
omg thanks, I've been trying to understand what different Auxins and Cytokinins actually do for my Tissue Culture Experiments and this video sums up IBA, IAA and NAA Perfectly!
Hi Mike GT GT information plus tips your videos are always full of instruction some forget the TIME you have to spend to make these videos for people you may NEVER meet thanks for your time 🐞🐦👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
You are so informative, I love your channel I have subscribed to several channels but yours & a couple others are the ones I don’t want to miss! I have rooting hormone but have never checked the label, I will now just for my own knowledge 👍 Thanks!
Mike, Been away from your channel for a few weeks, involved with various other interests__today's the day for catching up! 😜 Hope your healing is going well, and you and family are all well! 🙌 🙏 Two things: 1) Re: the rooting hormone 'suppliments', I'm always concerned with what the '99% OTHER ingredients' are(?), 2) Re: rooting fig cuttings__Hubby and I live in an apartment complex where a huge fig tree grew on our side of the building. Because of it's size (taller than our bedroom window, 2nd floor)and the root system (spanning more than 10' across the ground) I'm assuming the tree had been there for many years. In fact, the neighbors would actually climb the tree and pick the fruit! One Sat. morning last summer I awoke to the sound of the 'so-called' landscapers buzzing away at cutting all the branches, willy-nilly! I was like, "What the 'bleep'?!" Apparently, tenants had complained about spiders, etc. so, this was the owner's way of dealing with the issue. And so, in the course of one day four long-standing fruit trees, incl. citrus, exotic and the fig, even hibiscus and other bushes, were cut down to the ground__all on a whim! 😭😭😭 Here's the interesting part: they left the trunk and roots of the fig tree because they couldn't 'pull' them out! Of course we all know what happens next__over the winter months sprouts kept popping up and every time I waited till they grew to a size I thought I could cut, the guys came and mutilated them down to the trunk again__until this past spring! One day I decided to take my pruners downstairs to see if I could collect some stems! And good thing, cuz the next day [they] came and totally removed the trunk and all remnants of that beautiful tree! I cut three stems (all green, no wood) one being very thin and shorter than the other two. They all had leaves and/or bud nodes. I trimmed them up and put them in a large glass jar with a combo of: some rainwater I was able to collect from a short shower we had a few days earlier, some drinking water we get from the municipal water machines at $.25 per gallon(triple-filtered and osmosis), to which I added a few drops of Dr. Earth's liquid seaweed fertilizer(which I had laying around for a couple of years) and placed the jar on a shelf directly next to a kitchen window for air and light. I knew it would be awhile, but I'm a very patient person__and after a few weeks I noticed a fine tendril of a root coming from, amazingly, the smallest stem of the three! 😳👏 Over the next month I had to trim the other two stems as they looked like they were getting darker and still no roots at that point. What I'm going to say next is a testament to 'you never know where the knowledge may come from'__while scrolling through the comments on one of your videos, someone mentioned that "roots like the dark" and I thought, "DUH!" So, I folded a large piece of paper and wrapped it around the jar of water to keep most of the sun from the stem ends. And guess what?!? A little more than a couple of months later, VOILA! Evidence of roots, first on one then, on the other of the two larger stems! 😱👏🌱🌿 All during this time, since I first cut the stems from the trunk, all but about three leaves have remained intact on the stems__all growing strong and, in fact, new leaves have grown from the original buds and are beautiful! I will wait a little while longer before I plant them in a pot with soil. Of course, during all this time I have changed the water several times, never using straight tap water(too much chlorine, etc.__hard water for this method[without soil])! 😺 After all this, I'm hoping they will do well afterward as they will be inside. 😏 I cannot plant them outside because the new owners of the complex are planning on removing all other plant material and replacing with who knows what! I'm in Southern CA and it seems unless you own your own place, renters are being told we can't display personal plants outside because of uniformity issues or insurance issues(accidents, etc.)! Totally sucks, but I gotta work with what I have available to me, right! 😲😏 Anyway, sorry for the super long post but I thought you, and others, might be interested in what I did to try to save this fig tree in my own little way! 'To be continued.....'!!! 👏😎🙏🙌🙌🙌🌱🌿😺
So glad to hear of your success with the figs! It's a shame that such a large tree was cut down but they do grow fast. Maybe sneak out there at night and replant one of the rooted cuttings, haha.
@@MikeKincaid79 , I would but they're planning on 're-scaping' the property before it would have a chance to grow to any substantial stage. And at that, they are going to 'rip out' the roses, nicotiana, lemongrass, and anything the tenants have growing at this time. 😭 I keep saying, they don't know what they're doing. 😤 Well, thanks for replying, and thanks for the heads up on the hostas, lots of cool stuff on their website! Have a great evening with those two adorable girls of yours and your beautiful wife__nothing's better that that! Great to see you're healing nicely, too! 🙌🙌🙌🙏🌱🌿😺
Great video,but I wanted to write down what was on the board behind you & because I'm on a phone it's quite hard to see,but also I couldn't read the bottom to well.. I'm not complaining,I just wanted to write it down & make notes that's all..Really appreciate the help..I know what works for one doesn't always work for another & you find what works for you,but it's always good to have a bit of knowledge..I really want to root a maple.. I know this video is a bit older,but still it's all valuable information.. Have a great day & take care ☮️✌️🍁🍄☮️✌️🍁🍄
Wow! K new nothing about rooting hormone! Great information. I'm going to try to propagate some stuff this month. Really appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
Mike, do u want some curly willow cuttings? I can send u tons. I bought some cut flowers about 15 years ago that had some bare curly willow branches in with the flowers. I didn't get around to throwing the flowers away right away, and noticed the willows rooted. So I planted one in my front yard and now it's about 25' tall. Beautiful, if u want some, let me know.
@@MikeKincaid79 Happy New Year Mike! I really enjoyed your video and have learnt so much. Thank you for sharing your valuable knowledge. Eager to start growing in 2022. Have liked and subscribed.
Willow water seems to work beautifully for me. It can even resurrect those plants that you buy in the supermarket at the end of the sale! Or as I call them 'Take me home I'm dying'
@@MikeKincaid79 I am following your stratification advice for my Acer seedlings. No wet paper towels for me! Just straight in the bag. I'll keep you posted. I'm expecting great things. Thanks for all your great advice 🤩
Have you ever used lentils? People make some lentils powder to use as a root stimulator. Sometimes I intentionally put a lentil to grow together of my cuttings and I think it works.
I agree with you Mike except I don't know if I would give Aloe a "Big" thumbs up, but you know more about it than me. I think the sugar in honey could be a little bit helpful for an energy source but that is just theory on my part. However, with willow I have seen where people have cut a bunch of whips & soaked them in a bucket or vase of water for several days so the hormone could leach out into the water. This would be easier than grinding them up. The water takes on a brackish tannin color. I imagine it would work but you would be winging it as far as the concentration of hormone your getting. I think just using the commercial stuff would be easiest & most effective. It will be interesting to see if you find anything really effective............. BTW, have you ever tried making your own IBA instead of buying the commercial stuff? You can buy it in bulk cheaply to make your own.
I haven't tried to make my own, just not big enough to need that much. I've looked into the willow quite a bit and read some interesting things. There have actually been studies showing that it doesn't work and is an old wives tale. I need to do my own experiments with it.
I got loads n loads of aloe ....thank you for this info about aloe . I knew about cinnamon n honey ..not aloe ..so heloe aloe ! 🌱 I am a house planter not a commercial one...so suits me fine.i do use store bought ones too..but given a choice organic anyday ! 🍃
I am a korean. I didn't fully understood. Hony, cinnamon and asprin drug are for anti fungus. But aloe and willow tree are good rooting holmon, right? Please let me know which is best rooting holmon between aloe and willow. Thank you so much.
Great advice, I would differ on the cinnamon, has it's natural, and the plant does have the hormones, as it is a plant as well, thanks for all your help, and ideas that help others achieve the results we look to obtaining in gardening!!
question, i have some hardwood dogwood cuttings... from 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick... 4 to 7 inch long...planted in a mixture of sand and cactus/ perlite soil....some videos say water and cover with plastic bag to create mini greenhouse and open once a week to let in fresh air... others say no cover and make sure sand doesnt get dry, better to not get mold and kill the roots.... whats is the best way???
Thank you Mike for this information. Once I have mixed the rooting hormone with water, does it have a shelf life? Should I mix it each time I root a different type of plant? Have a great week!
3-4 years if kept at room temp and out of sunlight. That’s what the Hormex company says anyway. Others say to store in a fridge and they’ll last 18-24 months.
I personally use hormex but thats just because i use their Vitamin B1 rooting concentrate to help ease transplant stress and/or just use as a rooting additive and just save on shipping 🤔🤣
Mike, there’s this reoccurring theme in the fig community that “talc” based or powder rooting stimulators tend to promote rot as opposed to gels because apparently talc has water retention properties that hold onto excessive moisture etc.. Can you give some insight on this?
Lots of thoughts on this but the short answer is, no, it doesn't cause rot. Covering the hardwood cuttings and keeping them in a humid environment is what causes the rot. I've rooted lots of figs with all kinds of rooting hormone and some without any and never have a problem when I don't cover my cuttings. I think that the people who like to cover their cuttings are holding on to that sacred cow and like to blame other reasons for rot. Just my 2 cents.
I stick my cuttings in August and they're just starting to put on some roots several months later. I leave them in the same frame for 1.5 years and then pull them out and pot them in the spring.
Thanks for the reply....and Oh my, I think I just gave up on rooting plants. Ive been grabbing cuttings all over the US while traveling. Hopefully other plants are only months?
Good morning Mike my name is marqui I've in everett, wa I been watching for a lil over 2yrs and I can't find anything about A Slimy mucus type sack at the base of my new starts ,right after the roots begin to come through . I got these from my neighbors yard they are an Orange Tipped yellow centered medium size rosebud. I do use rooting hormone but have found that adding it to the water for the first 2 to 4 weeks seems to produce better growth, only this time im seeing the roots retreat as the mucus comes. I've rinsed them changed the water weekly and I'm worried my black thumb is back. I have in the last 2 years propagated multiple starts off of my Long stem red velvet rose Bush and haven't noticed this with them.. As you can see in the 2 last photos I am doing great with the most recent cuts. The large plant was taken last fall and the small guy was taken early this spring around 3rd week of may. It rooted quick in the jar shown in photo 1 , but as soon as I get them into dirt they seem to slow down on growth. I keep them on the north west side of my home where they get all the afternoon sun and stay warm well into the night.. help mee I'm really afraid to put the plant in photo 5 in the ground the last 3 I put outside when they were that size died within weeks so i guess I'm gonna grow my roses indoors you have Some magical advice that could help. Long time viewer love your excitement it makes me 😁 excited to grow. I know you can help. Thanks Marqui gogal everett, wa
The slimy mucous is a combination of sugars that the cutting is making and bacteria that are feeding on it. This is very common in water propagation. Change your water often.
Another super powerful video! Thank you. So does using the rooting chemicals do something to the makeup of the plants? Meaning they won't ever be organic?
Is it safe to use clonex on food crops? I used it on basil and lemon balm cuttings but then had a doubt about whether it would be ok to eat the plant that grows…
Hi I came across your video which resulted in me buying the Dip n Grow. I am interested in rooting my cuttings in water. How many drops of this hormone would I need to not burn my cutting vs getting the job done? Any tips would be appreciated.
Water propagation is different and with most of those plants you don't need rooting hormone. If you want to experiment then I wouldn't put more than a drop of the solution into a pint of water.
@@MikeKincaid79 thank you. I did experiment on a spare cutting and did actually put at least 3 to 4 drops into quarter cup.of water and the cutting is still in there. Nothing happened I guess I was expecting it to bur OR have a huge growth of roots overnight, haha. On a different note can aloe vera gel taken from the plant and spread on a node promote leaf nodes to grow faster?
Thank you for clarifying this. There is so much fake information on TH-cam, sometimes it's just a waste of time.
I use Dip-N-Grow. Just got another pint for $43.00, but I can dip over 5-6 thousand Muscadine Cuttings each season using less than one bottle. What I really like about this stuff you can dip 10 or more cuttings at a time. Great Stuff.
I agree and I love it's versatility.
One of my earlier comments inferred that you are a natural instructor. So the University of Mike is a reality and all is right in the universe. Another great video...thank you!
Hi, how much is the tuition to get into this university?
I use "Stim-Root" 0.1% for one bottle and 0.4% for the other bottle. Guess i need to go shopping for something stronger. Great video.
Thank you for clarifying the cinnamon and honey for people. As a propagator I hear all kinds of crazy things. I have friends who swear by honey and one things cinnamon is heaven's gift and just can't believe there are no hormones in it even though their success is limited. Smh.
I hadn't tried aloe. Gee that was great timing to hear... I am heading to the nursery today. Aloe on my list...One more plant to run rooting experiments with. Thanks Mike. 😁
I better get to the store before all the aloe is bought up!
Cinnamon works great to stop the fungal growing in seed starting trays when using a potting mix. I have used it a few times for the same reason when I have had to root cuttings in a potting mix. I have a fine mesh sifter that I use to apply the Cinnamon to the surface of the potting mix before planting vegetable seeds.
Great to know it. Thanks for your dedication and devotion to plants and trees. As a non native English speaker, I congratulate you for your fine articulation. I understand virtually it all and that contributes to taking the best out of your information.
Thanks so much for the nice comment and I'm glad the video was helpful for you!
@@MikeKincaid79 Hey Mike, can I use this for creating callus around a grafting area (chip-bud grafting for example)? Or is there another type of hormone for that?
One year, I put several whillow whips in a pail of well water, then placed some other things in with it and found great root broth on all in the pail.
Cool! Thanks for sharing your experience.
I have read many labels on rooting hormones and have discovered most of them say not to use with anything that provides food, like fruit trees! Clonex is the first one I found that did not say that. I have tried and failed every time with honey, cinnamon and willow water. Thanks for the video!
Honey and cinnamon didn't work for me either ,and I try in on a easy to grow plant
I've done the same experiments and found failure.
I. Am so glad that aloe can be used. I only use organic. I don't want any chemicals in our plants or yard. So thanks Mike .
Hey Mike, I have a Mulberry tree in my front yard I love eating from. I had been watching your videos and finally decided to try some cuttings myself. 2 weeks!!!! and a few of my cuttings are showing amazing roots! Thanks for the pointers and push!
Edit: Thought I should add I used clonex.
Good to know. Wow, mulberry must have some amazing rooting potential. Or you have a magical green thumb, lol.
@@MikeKincaid79 Hopefully it's a green thumb, been contemplating taking a master gardener class!? Thanks for all the videos, I didn't know anything about cuttings until a month or two ago.
You picked a good plant to start with. It's an easy one to root so it's encouraging. Glad it's working out for you. Fig is another easy one.
I'll trade u some curly willow cutting for some mulberry.
So did you get male or female mulberries? I got some cuttings from my Dads female mulberry tree, but only got one female tree from a dozen cuttings. The hummingbirds eat the pollen from the male trees, but you only need one male in a small yard.
Thanks Mike for this vital information on rooting hormone products. I have recently been experimenting with aloe vera from my local grocery store. For cutting and making aloe vera water for my plants. Full of natural minerals and hormones.
It's true!
Oh surprise surprise my plants are growing thanks to you. I'm delited with my self . My wife all so is a big fan of yours. God bless .
I'm happy for your success, Gerry!
After watching your video I looked at the rooting hormone bottle I purchased this past spring at my local garden shop. The ingredients on the bottle read (Indole-3- butyric acid …ONLY … point one percent.) Thanks for the video, I just got educated.
I stick my cuttings in water sometimes (depending on plant)until i get roots then put into soil with Mykos (beneficial fungi) and Azos (beneficial bacteria) dusted all over the hole/roots. The clones takeoff like the F22 Raptor!
***Pro tip*** If you are having fungi or mold problems just use honey or cinnamon FTW 🎉🎉🎉
You mentioned using willow for rooting. Willow is so good for this that I have rooted willow sticks that were three inches in diameter without anything be water and soil.
That sounds really cool! Instant bonsai!
Glad I found your chanel. I have been rooting mostly Roses for a couple years now. I think they root equally with and without rooting hormone. The younger stems do best in my experience.
Glad you found us too, Kim!
Hi Mike, yes i have an access to amazon, thanks for your quick response😊🤗
I feel like I've been just winging it all this time. I learned a lot from this video. Thank you for your wealth of knowledge.
Winging it works too, but now you're even better equiped!
What about making a willow tea and using that to wet your potting medium then add your Hormodin dipped cutting? Over kill or possibly too strong?
Mike I appreciate your knowledge on this subject of different types of hormones! I don’t think I’ve heard much about this before and it’s a bit confusing to someone who just enjoys it for my own personal pleasure of seeing beauty and being surrounded by things that I have spent time doing since I bought my first home. My 2nd home I even went a little more into seeing how things plants would grow in my area without reading any books on the subject. I’ve definitely had some die but it was worth the effort to try and fail than never try at all. You are a great source of inspiration and fun to watch your channel. 👍
Thank you so much, Mae! You're doing it the right way, getting out there and getting your hands dirty!
I use young willow branches and put them in a blender then let them soak in my bucket of water for a day then dunk my orchids in it or water other plants :) it does work.
I tried the clonex too, sadly it's too expensive and with some very sensitive plants I think we can overdose it so it does more harm than help, so I prefer what nature provides for free :)
I use cinnamon powder too, but only on wounds that I like to dry up fast, indeed it's a natural antiseptic, however if it drops on fresh healthy roots it can dry them so I'd be cautious.
Thanks for the tips, Sophie
Mike Kincaid welcome :) corrected the mistypes haha
Pretty soon your rose video will have half a million views. Good work Mike👍👍
It sure seems to be heading that way quick!
This is exactly the info I’ve been needing and I didn’t even realize it. Thanks!
Awesome!
I would really enjoy some videos about using willow or other natural methods. We will soon be needing to root lots of cuttings, and this is something I have never had much success so I am a bit nervous!
Well, I'll just have to work on some videos about it in the future.
Thanks Mike! Very good amount of information. I will sign up for the other classes as well. 😊🤚Adios! 😁
Thanks Andee!
@@MikeKincaid79 Me too !! I am always confused on this. ✌🏻❤
Thank you for the information on a much cheaper way for rooting hormone! May God Bless you and your family Greatly
You're welcome, Mike.
Hey Mike, amazing job. I really appreciate your effort with real facts not myths.
This video must have benefited many, and may God reward you for this . Aamen
Much appreciated!
Hi if i forgot to add hormone can i mix some in water and add it later through watering the plant
Thank you so much! I have been using Clonex without much results and at this time I can't afford the Hormodin 3 so the Dip and Grow is the way I will go.
Dip and Grow is a great rooting hormone and you'll have plenty of success with it!
Hi Mike. I was able to get 98% pure IBA powder (2% inert ingredients). How do you think I can use it? I want to use as a solution in an aeroponic cloner (DIY). Thanks
Thanks Mike, I am impressed with your knowledge on this subject.
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Thanks OAG! Still loving your channel, too!
Hey there Mike - you are a man of Science. You could set up an experiment with 8 groups of cuttings with 10 or so cuttings in each - something that is plentiful but might be a little difficult to root and treat each group with a different rooting hormone. 3 in each of your synthetic hormones, one in cinnamon, one in honey, one in Aloe Vera gel, one in willow water and the last with nothing as a control. It could be interesting.
Sounds like a cool idea. I’ve been thinking about this for a couple years now. Maybe this is the year to make it happen.
Yes, this would be a fantastic research that may yield very good and defendable results
Great explanation.
Honey I have doubts about, most of its anti-microbal properties are just due to the high osmotic pressure of the saturated sugar, add some water and it easily ferments [mead]. I think beeswax is a source for 1-triacontonol, but its not directly useable. Water of young coconuts (white shell not brown) contains a lot of hormones including the cytokinin Zeatin along with some vitamins and minerals, this coconut water is sometimes used for 10% of the growth media in tissue culture. (they call it coconut milk in the labs but it is the really the water, not the milk for curry that is made from nut-meat.) Kinetin was discovered in autoclaved herring semen, BAP is a synthetic cytokinin as far as I recall but is popular for effectiveness and a big cost advantage over Zeatin (discovered in corn plants). I might fiddle with some coconut water but I kind of want to wait until I can afford some labware to de-sugar it so I don't get a sticky mess. (I wonder if zeatin would survive yeast fermentation and alcohol removal with vacuum distillation)
So many variants on each hormone category too; 2,4-D(the herbicide) is an auxin and popular in tissue culture labs, but not appropriate for rooting cuttings. I just read a research paper comparing 2,4-D with NAA in-vitro(I forget the species) and the 2,4-D stimulated cell division at tested concentrations but not cell elongation, while NAA at low concentration stimulated cell elongation with cell division only at high concentrations.
Another paper, on rooting stimulation of in-vitro hazelnut showed that a small addition of cytokinin boosted the effectiveness of the auxins. They used IBA and Kinetin at IBA:kn of 50:5 mg/L. 10:1 IBA:kn was also the ratio used in another paper to drench bud grafts of mulberries made in September, with significant boost in both % success and shoot size from the grafts, with 60:6 and 90:9 mg/L having solid results 90:9 was the strongest tested) I'm going to do some rooting tests this year with Dip'nGrow supplemented with BAP(6-benzylamniopurine) in whatever that molar ratio of IBA to kinetin works out to be.
Sorry I'm still going on about the PGRs, I forgot to mention silver thiosulfate has some uses as it can act as an ethylene inhibitor, in the cuttings of some species this is just what the auxin is doing. To be sure, this is micromoles or small parts per thousand levels, silver salts quickly get toxic if used in too high of a dose, thiosulfate ions also contribute something to rooting or ethylene inhibition but they are pretty benign and even found in several fertilizers as a source of S.
Mike..
you are good teacher to learn how to use roots to growing up beautiful flowers and plants !😁😁👋👋🌿🌿🌺🌹🌷
Aspirin comes from willow bark :)
Granted we now synthesize it but original it was made from willow bark
(TL;DR willow bark is a very old home remedy from the past and a few scientists wish to find out why it worked the compound used to make aspirin is what they discovered reduced pain/inflammation)
Lmao wtf your tldr was longer than what u wrote
Great down-to-earth video, and well narrated!
Thanks Mike!! My neon devils Ivy just won’t root. I take let’s say 10 cuttings and maybe 1 will root. Now I’ll try with aloe 🌱
Thanks so much for the info! I have heard a teeny bit about natural root hormone ideas. But it's good to hear from someone who knows their stuff!!!
You're welcome and thanks for watching! I'm going to have to do more videos on this subject in the future.
Cinnamon keeps the roots clean and healthy and has been shown to be quite effective in rooting cannabis.
I did it... I did, thank you... my propagation of my Gardenia plant is perfect...
Awesome! Glad to hear it.
omg thanks, I've been trying to understand what different Auxins and Cytokinins actually do for my Tissue Culture Experiments and this video sums up IBA, IAA and NAA Perfectly!
Great!
Thank you...exactly what I needed...to the point, informative, and educational....Yeah🎉👍🥰
Great!
Hi Mike GT GT information plus tips your videos are always full of instruction some forget the TIME you have to spend to make these videos for people you may NEVER meet thanks for your time 🐞🐦👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks Graham! It does take a lot of time to make all of this happen. I enjoy it and feel like I'm living out my life's purpose.
You are so informative, I love your channel I have subscribed to several channels but yours & a couple others are the ones I don’t want to miss! I have rooting hormone but have never checked the label, I will now just for my own knowledge 👍 Thanks!
I'm honored to be on the list! Thanks for that.
I have aloe. I am going to try it. Thanks. Rhonda
I do rooting powder and aloe Vera in combination works well
Mike,
Been away from your channel for a few weeks, involved with various other interests__today's the day for catching up! 😜
Hope your healing is going well, and you and family are all well! 🙌 🙏 Two things: 1) Re: the rooting hormone 'suppliments', I'm always concerned with what the '99% OTHER ingredients' are(?), 2) Re: rooting fig cuttings__Hubby and I live in an apartment complex where a huge fig tree grew on our side of the building. Because of it's size (taller than our bedroom window, 2nd floor)and the root system (spanning more than 10' across the ground) I'm assuming the tree had been there for many years. In fact, the neighbors would actually climb the tree and pick the fruit! One Sat. morning last summer I awoke to the sound of the 'so-called' landscapers buzzing away at cutting all the branches, willy-nilly! I was like, "What the 'bleep'?!" Apparently, tenants had complained about spiders, etc. so, this was the owner's way of dealing with the issue. And so, in the course of one day four long-standing fruit trees, incl. citrus, exotic and the fig, even hibiscus and other bushes, were cut down to the ground__all on a whim! 😭😭😭 Here's the interesting part: they left the trunk and roots of the fig tree because they couldn't 'pull' them out! Of course we all know what happens next__over the winter months sprouts kept popping up and every time I waited till they grew to a size I thought I could cut, the guys came and mutilated them down to the trunk again__until this past spring! One day I decided to take my pruners downstairs to see if I could collect some stems! And good thing, cuz the next day [they] came and totally removed the trunk and all remnants of that beautiful tree! I cut three stems (all green, no wood) one being very thin and shorter than the other two. They all had leaves and/or bud nodes. I trimmed them up and put them in a large glass jar with a combo of: some rainwater I was able to collect from a short shower we had a few days earlier, some drinking water we get from the municipal water machines at $.25 per gallon(triple-filtered and osmosis), to which I added a few drops of Dr. Earth's liquid seaweed fertilizer(which I had laying around for a couple of years) and placed the jar on a shelf directly next to a kitchen window for air and light. I knew it would be awhile, but I'm a very patient person__and after a few weeks I noticed a fine tendril of a root coming from, amazingly, the smallest stem of the three! 😳👏 Over the next month I had to trim the other two stems as they looked like they were getting darker and still no roots at that point. What I'm going to say next is a testament to 'you never know where the knowledge may come from'__while scrolling through the comments on one of your videos, someone mentioned that "roots like the dark" and I thought, "DUH!" So, I folded a large piece of paper and wrapped it around the jar of water to keep most of the sun from the stem ends. And guess what?!? A little more than a couple of months later, VOILA! Evidence of roots, first on one then, on the other of the two larger stems! 😱👏🌱🌿 All during this time, since I first cut the stems from the trunk, all but about three leaves have remained intact on the stems__all growing strong and, in fact, new leaves have grown from the original buds and are beautiful! I will wait a little while longer before I plant them in a pot with soil. Of course, during all this time I have changed the water several times, never using straight tap water(too much chlorine, etc.__hard water for this method[without soil])! 😺 After all this, I'm hoping they will do well afterward as they will be inside. 😏 I cannot plant them outside because the new owners of the complex are planning on removing all other plant material and replacing with who knows what! I'm in Southern CA and it seems unless you own your own place, renters are being told we can't display personal plants outside because of uniformity issues or insurance issues(accidents, etc.)! Totally sucks, but I gotta work with what I have available to me, right! 😲😏
Anyway, sorry for the super long post but I thought you, and others, might be interested in what I did to try to save this fig tree in my own little way! 'To be continued.....'!!! 👏😎🙏🙌🙌🙌🌱🌿😺
So glad to hear of your success with the figs! It's a shame that such a large tree was cut down but they do grow fast. Maybe sneak out there at night and replant one of the rooted cuttings, haha.
@@MikeKincaid79 ,
I would but they're planning on 're-scaping' the property before it would have a chance to grow to any substantial stage. And at that, they are going to 'rip out' the roses, nicotiana, lemongrass, and anything the tenants have growing at this time. 😭 I keep saying, they don't know what they're doing. 😤 Well, thanks for replying, and thanks for the heads up on the hostas, lots of cool stuff on their website! Have a great evening with those two adorable girls of yours and your beautiful wife__nothing's better that that! Great to see you're healing nicely, too! 🙌🙌🙌🙏🌱🌿😺
Professor Mike is a rockstar!!
Great video,but I wanted to write down what was on the board behind you & because I'm on a phone it's quite hard to see,but also I couldn't read the bottom to well.. I'm not complaining,I just wanted to write it down & make notes that's all..Really appreciate the help..I know what works for one doesn't always work for another & you find what works for you,but it's always good to have a bit of knowledge..I really want to root a maple..
I know this video is a bit older,but still it's all valuable information..
Have a great day & take care ☮️✌️🍁🍄☮️✌️🍁🍄
The most thorough explanation I have heard on this topic. Thanks!
Thanks, Erik, I appreciate the comment.
I love Mike so much for all of his work I hit like button just to support him and bc he always deserves it.
Awe, thanks so much!
Wow! K new nothing about rooting hormone! Great information. I'm going to try to propagate some stuff this month. Really appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
No problem, Sabrina, thanks for watching and good luck with your cuttings!
Well explained sir and I love it.. I used to try anaa rooting hormone and it works for my grape cuttings..
Mike, do u want some curly willow cuttings? I can send u tons. I bought some cut flowers about 15 years ago that had some bare curly willow branches in with the flowers. I didn't get around to throwing the flowers away right away, and noticed the willows rooted. So I planted one in my front yard and now it's about 25' tall. Beautiful, if u want some, let me know.
Yes, I'd love some. Can you message me on the Kincaid's Nursery Facebook page: facebook.com/kincaidsnursery
Excellent presentation Mike👍👍
Thanks 👍
Thank you Mike - your explanation is brilliant. So easy to understand even with the scientific terms 😊
Glad you think so! Happy New Year!!!
@@MikeKincaid79 Happy New Year Mike! I really enjoyed your video and have learnt so much. Thank you for sharing your valuable knowledge. Eager to start growing in 2022. Have liked and subscribed.
Thanks for the info. Perfect timing since I have been looking in to this lately. Very clear.
Awesome!
Thank you for educating us and making our choice easier!!
Glad to help!
Which product is safe for food crops (organic)?
Always love your energy and to the point videos. Much appreciated from a fellow Washingtonian.
Howdy, neighbor! Glad you enjoy the videos. Sure has been nice this past few days around here.
Willow water seems to work beautifully for me. It can even resurrect those plants that you buy in the supermarket at the end of the sale! Or as I call them 'Take me home I'm dying'
Haha, sounds like you've got it figured out. Willows are great trees and contain so much valuable rooting hormones for us gardeners.
@@MikeKincaid79 I am following your stratification advice for my Acer seedlings. No wet paper towels for me! Just straight in the bag. I'll keep you posted. I'm expecting great things. Thanks for all your great advice 🤩
So awesome! Looking forward to hearing how it goes.
Have you ever used lentils?
People make some lentils powder to use as a root stimulator.
Sometimes I intentionally put a lentil to grow together of my cuttings and I think it works.
Cool tip, thanks!
I don't say this enough: your channel is absolute gold!
That means a lot to me and thanks so much for saying so. I appreciate your support!
I haven’t try rooting hormone yet, thank you for the information. Will try this out
You'll love the results!
I love your videos !!! Your presentation is just so motivating!!! Helps me get through the winter been binge watching your videos lol
So glad you enjoy the videos! Thanks for your support.
I agree with you Mike except I don't know if I would give Aloe a "Big" thumbs up, but you know more about it than me. I think the sugar in honey could be a little bit helpful for an energy source but that is just theory on my part. However, with willow I have seen where people have cut a bunch of whips & soaked them in a bucket or vase of water for several days so the hormone could leach out into the water. This would be easier than grinding them up. The water takes on a brackish tannin color. I imagine it would work but you would be winging it as far as the concentration of hormone your getting. I think just using the commercial stuff would be easiest & most effective. It will be interesting to see if you find anything really effective............. BTW, have you ever tried making your own IBA instead of buying the commercial stuff? You can buy it in bulk cheaply to make your own.
I haven't tried to make my own, just not big enough to need that much. I've looked into the willow quite a bit and read some interesting things. There have actually been studies showing that it doesn't work and is an old wives tale. I need to do my own experiments with it.
I got loads n loads of aloe ....thank you for this info about aloe .
I knew about cinnamon n honey ..not aloe ..so heloe aloe ! 🌱 I am a house planter not a commercial one...so suits me fine.i do use store bought ones too..but given a choice organic anyday ! 🍃
So awesome! Sounds like you're all set.
I am a korean. I didn't fully understood.
Hony, cinnamon and asprin drug are for anti fungus.
But aloe and willow tree are good rooting holmon, right?
Please let me know which is best rooting holmon between aloe and willow.
Thank you so much.
I would choose aloe over willow but both will work.
@@MikeKincaid79 Thank you very much for your quick answer.
Have a good day!
Great advice, I would differ on the cinnamon, has it's natural, and the plant does have the hormones, as it is a plant as well, thanks for all your help, and ideas that help others achieve the results we look to obtaining in gardening!!
You are so welcome, Rob, glad you're getting some good info from the videos.
question, i have some hardwood dogwood cuttings... from 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick... 4 to 7 inch long...planted in a mixture of sand and cactus/ perlite soil....some videos say water and cover with plastic bag to create mini greenhouse and open once a week to let in fresh air... others say no cover and make sure sand doesnt get dry, better to not get mold and kill the roots.... whats is the best way???
I'd guess cover and mist regularly, never let it go dry but definitely dont let it be wet!! Thatll invite root. Humidity helps supposedly
i soak cuttings in crushed willow then dip in low grade powder. ive had great success. let me know if you want some willow stems!
We've got willow around here and I plan to do a video on them at some point. Thanks for the offer!
Thank you Mike for this information. Once I have mixed the rooting hormone with water, does it have a shelf life? Should I mix it each time I root a different type of plant? Have a great week!
When I use the dip-n-grow, I mix a small amount at a time. I use it for the day and then throw it out.
What is the shelf life of these different rooting hormones. Also how is the best way to preserve them. Thank you great vidios
3-4 years if kept at room temp and out of sunlight. That’s what the Hormex company says anyway. Others say to store in a fridge and they’ll last 18-24 months.
I personally use hormex but thats just because i use their Vitamin B1 rooting concentrate to help ease transplant stress and/or just use as a rooting additive and just save on shipping 🤔🤣
Mike, there’s this reoccurring theme in the fig community that “talc” based or powder rooting stimulators tend to promote rot as opposed to gels because apparently talc has water retention properties that hold onto excessive moisture etc.. Can you give some insight on this?
Lots of thoughts on this but the short answer is, no, it doesn't cause rot. Covering the hardwood cuttings and keeping them in a humid environment is what causes the rot. I've rooted lots of figs with all kinds of rooting hormone and some without any and never have a problem when I don't cover my cuttings. I think that the people who like to cover their cuttings are holding on to that sacred cow and like to blame other reasons for rot. Just my 2 cents.
I agree, I think the culprit is too much moisture when covered... And like you, I get my best results when I just leave them open.
My first time using D'iG and it worked sooo well!
What about wintergreen water? I'm hoping to try soon. I've been using willow water for a bit and seems to help.
I have pure iba, Wich Is the maximum percentage for mix with talcum powder?
thanks for this video. which one do you recommend for passionvine, wooly dutchmans pipevine and regular pipevine plants?
You said it takes rododendra a long time to root. How long is that? I have no concept of how long is long or short.
I stick my cuttings in August and they're just starting to put on some roots several months later. I leave them in the same frame for 1.5 years and then pull them out and pot them in the spring.
Thanks for the reply....and Oh my, I think I just gave up on rooting plants. Ive been grabbing cuttings all over the US while traveling. Hopefully other plants are only months?
Thank you I'm happy to hear that aloe works well that what I've been using but I couldn't fina any science behind it until this video
You are so welcome! It's great stuff, just wish I could grow it outdoors here like I had when I lived in Arizona.
@@MikeKincaid79 do you think you'll do a video on propagation of fruit trees with aloe any time soon? I would absolutely love to see that
By far the best video available on rooting hormones! Thanks a ton!
You're welcome! Glad you learned from it.
Loved this video frin the Philippines, very thorough and honest, will be looking forward to more videos from you...
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Mike, greetings from Portugal! I like your videos the way you explain things!! This is another education video, congratulations!!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you appreciate the videos.
Thanks So much. I wasn't wanting to spend the money on a hormone, and I have a big beautiful aloe, and some white willow bark supplements...
Awesome! Good luck and have fun with it.
Good morning Mike my name is marqui I've in everett, wa I been watching for a lil over 2yrs and I can't find anything about A Slimy mucus type sack at the base of my new starts ,right after the roots begin to come through . I got these from my neighbors yard they are an Orange Tipped yellow centered medium size rosebud. I do use rooting hormone but have found that adding it to the water for the first 2 to 4 weeks seems to produce better growth, only this time im seeing the roots retreat as the mucus comes. I've rinsed them changed the water weekly and I'm worried my black thumb is back.
I have in the last 2 years propagated multiple starts off of my Long stem red velvet rose Bush and haven't noticed this with them..
As you can see in the 2 last photos I am doing great with the most recent cuts. The large plant was taken last fall and the small guy was taken early this spring around 3rd week of may. It rooted quick in the jar shown in photo 1 , but as soon as I get them into dirt they seem to slow down on growth.
I keep them on the north west side of my home where they get all the afternoon sun and stay warm well into the night.. help mee I'm really afraid to put the plant in photo 5 in the ground the last 3 I put outside when they were that size died within weeks so i guess I'm gonna grow my roses indoors you have Some magical advice that could help.
Long time viewer love your excitement it makes me 😁 excited to grow. I know you can help.
Thanks Marqui gogal everett, wa
The slimy mucous is a combination of sugars that the cutting is making and bacteria that are feeding on it. This is very common in water propagation. Change your water often.
Video may be old but still important and current, thank you.
Yep, still applies. Thanks Valery!
and now we add the aspirin, it might not help the plants but it helps my back
Lol, and it does actually help the plants grow. It’s a naturally occurring plant hormone that promotes plant growth.
Hey Mike, which rooting hormone do you like best for roses and figs
Hormodin #3 for roses and figs
Very educational my friend, its always good to hear what works and what the results are, all the best from kieron.
Glad you enjoyed it, Kieron.
Wow, 😲 Thank you 😊. Aloe vera Awesome... I have one of those...
I use cinnamon powder, now I am going to try aloe
You ara a science man dude, thanks for ur investigate .
Is there a rooting hormone for Rhody cuttings that will work if you put the Rhodys in a glass of water?
That's a 99% no, lol. I just leave the 1% open ended because I'm always open to experiments.
@@MikeKincaid79 Thanks.
Hi thanks for your video I have aloe Vera in my garden surely try them for rooting
Another super powerful video! Thank you. So does using the rooting chemicals do something to the makeup of the plants? Meaning they won't ever be organic?
No, they're just a concentrated form of hormones that the plants already contain.
@@MikeKincaid79 Ah ok, thank you
Is it safe to use clonex on food crops? I used it on basil and lemon balm cuttings but then had a doubt about whether it would be ok to eat the plant that grows…
I don't think it's a problem but I don't have any science to back that up.
Hi I came across your video which resulted in me buying the Dip n Grow. I am interested in rooting my cuttings in water. How many drops of this hormone would I need to not burn my cutting vs getting the job done? Any tips would be appreciated.
Water propagation is different and with most of those plants you don't need rooting hormone. If you want to experiment then I wouldn't put more than a drop of the solution into a pint of water.
@@MikeKincaid79 thank you. I did experiment on a spare cutting and did actually put at least 3 to 4 drops into quarter cup.of water and the cutting is still in there. Nothing happened I guess I was expecting it to bur OR have a huge growth of roots overnight, haha. On a different note can aloe vera gel taken from the plant and spread on a node promote leaf nodes to grow faster?
great video , very helpful. it is good you talked about aloe vera and willow as rooting hormone. great information.
Glad it was helpful!
Would love to see you do an 'aloe - cutting' rooting experiment! :D
Definitely coming in the future
@@MikeKincaid79 Can't wait!!
Great video. Thank you! I just got gifted with a bunch of Aloe Vera plants ✌️. So can you use aloe vera on aloe vera cuttings? 🤪
Haha, I suppose so.