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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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. 👍
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!
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.
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!
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 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!
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 ☮️✌️🍁🍄☮️✌️🍁🍄
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 🐞🐦👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@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.
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!
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.
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.
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 🎉🎉🎉
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.
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.
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.
michael thanks for your excelent lecture on rooting hormone. i shared it with young people. hope it was ok. did my tesis on alternate methods of propagation at zamorano.
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.
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, 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 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!!
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)
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 ! 🍃
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 🤩
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.
