Honey is a great substitute with rooting hormone gel or powder. Honey lasts for hundreds o years and you barley need any for each cutting. In this video I demonstrate the method of using honey for rooting cuttings. Why should you sue honey? Well what it does is create a protective barrier around the cutting to reduce the amount of diseases and rot entering the wounded part and killing it.
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Great vid, never thought of using honey, or even heard of it before. I will give it a go, seems like a super way to avoid using non organic stuff in the garden which I try and do 100% Well done.
do you have a book or notes for us to read on grating,and cuttings
Will try it in propagating rosemary. Thanks for the tip. Wish me luck!:)
Thanks for sharing. I've dipped the cuttings in honey and leaving them in water. How many times should I change the water to avoid bacteria, I suppose a 1/4 teaspoon may help and I change it in a weeks time?
interesting…. thank you
Excellent
It's not so environmentally friendly since the poor bees are dying by the 1000s a day, are soon going to be extinct & everybody's too busy on their WIFI devices to give 2 cents of care about it.
Does it work for propagating Rosemary?
40 percent of fructose and similar amount of glucose, and trace amounts of some minerals – more than 80 percent of honey is simply sugar – I really don't get how those ingredients can do anything, especially make a plant give roots. Which exact chemical in the rooting powder is responsible for making plants root better? Does honey contain any kind of a similar chemical compound? If yes, which one? Because if there are no answers to these questions, then this honey thing is just pseudo-scientific assumption that has not been properly tested and that doesn't really work like you claim it works… I would love to do a test on at least 600 cuttings, 200 per group, one group being honey, other being root hormone and the last one being a control group with nothing applied, then you would truly see for yourself whether this makes sense or you're just wasting your honey and your intelligence as well 😉
How long will grow well the root
I know more about selling from Stodoys handbooks !
Thank you for your tutorial it was very informative. I used honey for my bromeliad cuttings 3 weeks ago and the plants are still doing fine .. just make sure you buy a good farm honey usually from your vege market sometimes the ones in store are sugar based.
I hate pointing this out but the effort involved in getting your honey probably expended more energy than using a traditional root enhancer. The honey must be harvested, transported, heated and strained and poured into a container which also must be manufactured.This involves labor, car exhaust, factories and your green usage of getting the honey.
BUT – it sounds neat and I'm giving it a try.
I've tried this a few days ago kept the cutting under 24 hr light looks ok but give it a week or two n c how it is tried it before with no luck but ya never knw
Great info we gonna give it a try
honey can not be organic. 1st off.
Honey attracts ants
Please tell What to do?
What to do?
One should use like a table spoon of honey in a cup of hot water. Let it cool and keep it in a dark place. Pure honey is not that effective
can you use honey on succulent?
Can you use honey to help root all plant cuttings?thx
I’m going to use honey on my next cutting, thanks.
I think the honey may help prevent rot which causes many cuttings to never take. Some plants easily root so this isn't a problem. Others may take months to root and an antimicrobial agent may benefit the cutting in this time frame.
Who knew?? !!
Thankyou Huw very helpful and understandable as honey is a natural disinfectant, my brother is a beekeeper
Thankyou loads for video
Very cool and am sharing!!!
Sue honey? Why would you sue honey? What did honey ever do to you?
does it work on semi wood and wood stems?