»8 Powerful Home Made Rooting Hormones, Natural Rooting Hormones«
To increase on the rooting ability of cuttings, rooting hormones are applied and this reduces on the drying percentage of the cuttings.
As cloning involves duplicating plants from branch or stem cutting from mother plant, rooting hormones are either natural or synthetic chemicals which contain indole butyric acid and naphthalene acetic acid (IBA)
Rooting hormones
As IBA is a hormone for root stimulation, human saliva or animal‘s prevent cuttings from rot and stimulates root formation. Insert cuttings into saliva and put back into the soil for root formation, equally for apple cider vinegar, add 5 drops with 0.5 cup of water and dip the end of cutting before planting.
Similarly for cinnamon powder, insert an inch of cutting end into powder and then put back to soil and equally for willow bark, make willow tea and put cuttings into it before planting them.
For honey, dont directly insert cuttings into it to prevent insects that is to say add 1 tea spoon honey to 2 cups of boiling water, stir, cool it down and then insert cuttings . Additionally for Aloe Vera gel, dip cuttings into gel and plant into soil and finally for asprin tablet, crash it into powder, add water, mix and dip cuttings.