5 Rooting for plants and cuttings - Global Gardening Secrets

A homemade and natural rooting agent, as well as growth hormones or biostimulants, are products that serve to improve the growth and vigor of plants. There are many types of natural rooting agents, but today we are going to focus on 5 of them, which, in addition to being homemade, are easy to prepare and effective.

Homemade lentil rooting

Lentil seeds release growth hormones when they germinate and through a few steps to follow we can take advantage of them to help other plants grow. It is one of the easiest methods to perform and most used by gardeners because it is more available than other rooting agents for cuttings and it is inexpensive.

To make this lentil rooting agent, we need to put the measures of 1 cup of lentils to 4 cups of water in a container and let them soak for 8 hours so that they start to sprout. Below everything is well explained in the video on how it should be done.

Willow’s natural rooting agent

This is done in spring or summer because tender shoots of the plant are needed to make this willow rooting agent. Twigs about 15 cm long that have recently sprouted are taken and the leaves are removed. The hormone we are going to use this time is found in the tips of recently sprouted branches. We need to take about 200 grams of twigs and in a jar we put 1 liter of water. We explain the whole process in the following video:

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Rooting plants with coffee

Coffee has many uses in the garden and is a huge (and very accessible) garden ally, but surely many of you were unaware of its germinative power. A handful of coffee beans or ground coffee should be used for every half liter of water. Then we will boil it to the boiling point. When it cools we can put the cuttings to soak for a few minutes and then we will plant them. Coffee grounds for plants are also effective, although with other uses.

Rooting for cinnamon cuttings

Cinnamon has many properties as an antifungal, since it prevents fungi from growing in nurseries, and it is an ant remedy, since it prevents ants from passing through certain unwanted places for a certain period of time. Another of its properties is that of a natural rooting agent. In a liter of water add 3 tablespoons of cinnamon powder. It is left to stand overnight, filtered the next day and ready to use.

Soy or wheat seeds

Soybeans or wheat seeds are other seeds that we can use to make homemade rooting agent for plants. The method would be the same to apply as in the lens video and the same proportions, but with the respective grains.