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What in my kitchen is like rooting powder and perlite for rooting an evergreen cutting?
Propagating an evergreen trunk chop.
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- bravozuluLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Many people use honey for that purpose. It basically just sterilizes the cutting until it grows roots naturally. It probably also adds sugar for the plat to absorb My organic chemistry teacher had the patent on indole 3 butyric acid which is used as root growth hormone. He was reported by others to have made millions form Weyerhaeuser when they would chop off the top of a tree and use that make the top grow roots. It cut something like 5 years off the life cycle of the trees so was probably worth many millions. It isn't usually very expensive now and you can probably get enough for 5 bucks. Honey might not work with pine. I knew someone that preferred honey for his cannabis clones over root growth hormones. The guy he worked with did it for many years and was very experienced at it so it wasn't about the price.
- saffronesqueLv 78 years ago
If you want to succeed in your effort to reproduce the evergreen, you need to get the required materials from a garden center or a mail order catalog such as Burpee, Park Seed Company, and other. You could use sand as the rooting substrate as it can be sterilized by heating in an oven but the rooting hormone is not easily replicated in common household chemicals. If I remember botanical history correctly, indoleacetic acid or auxin (rooting hormone) was extracted from large quantities of urine.
Source(s): Botanist