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For any who want to try willow water for yourself, here is the "standard" method:

1. Collect stems of nearly any species of willow (Salix spp.). Weeping willow (S.
babylonica) is probably most popular, but we use S. caroliniana with good success.

You want young first-year twigs, with green or yellow bark; not old enough to
develop brown or gray bark.

2. Strip off and discard all the leaves. All you want are the twigs. Cut the twigs
into 1" lengths. Now you have what looks like a pile of small matchsticks.

3. Add enough water to barely cover your twigs. At this point, methods vary among
workers. You can either heat the mixture almost (but not quite) to the boil, and
brew it like tea, letting it soak until thoroughly cool, and for several hours
more, OR you can not heat it, and just let it soak, like "sun tea" for several
days, in the room-temperature water. In either case, when the liquid develops a
greenish-yellowish-brown color, rather like weak tea, You filter off the solids,
keeping the liquid. It will keep in the fridge for several weeks, or may be used
immediately.

4. When ready to root your cuttings, make a fresh cut at the base of the cutting,
and place it in the willow water, like flowers in a vase. Leave it there several
hours, so it has time to take up a significant amount of the willow water. At the
end of the soak time, you can rewound the base and apply an auxin-based hormone, or
not, depending on the type of cutting. Then root the cutting in your normal way (we
use intermittent mist).

https://permaculturenews.org/2014/05/31/propagation-using-willow-water/
- precise willow water recipe

http://www.fabricadeplante.ro/inmultirea-magnoliei-prin-butasi - site inmultire


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