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everyone of them will root, use a kitchen paring knife and just scrape the outter layer of bark off the bottoms from cut tip up about 3-5 inches, making sure you have at least one "node/joint" of the trunk close to the bottom. The outter bark won't allow roots to form, you have to remove it, and so scraping it off, or razor blade thin cut all the way around and then just peel it off. roots will form in usually bout 2 weeks, just by sticking them in the ground and keeping them watered or by putting them in a water-wet location or in the bucket

If you save the water you started your willow in you can use it as a all natural root hormone for starting your other trees! It’s all I use now!

My dad planted one willow tree in his back yard, Five years later he had about 25. Spent the next years cutting them down.

Willow is actually a good source of the root hormones that you could use to grow the other trees. Idk if you can just add the sticks to the same water or if you need to make "willow water" like other people do or not.

This is simply amazing not only does it give you a better way than using a seed it works

Do your part, plant a tree and save the Earth for future generations.

Willows are amazing trees! I never knew!

Sweet video I love weeping willows. Always have been my favorite tree.

This is what has worked for me..took cuttings from tree sucker branches with bark still green (6-10 inches long), scored the first 2 inches of the base, removed all leaves except for top pair, dipped ends in water and then in rooting hormone powder, and put into individual 24 oz cups. I used an aquarium pump (not required, but had one) with air stones on mine and had signs of root buds within a few weeks. I didn't use clear or opaque cups because they can increase the chances of algae growth. The trees I propagated were Red Oak, Arizona Ash, and Red Maple. Much easier and faster than from seed. Good luck on your barrier tree fence.

Great video! Might have to apply this technique to make a Willow Bonsai.

☺☺☺☺ My self I would go for giant conifers They stay green all year round And have densely packed branches Ideal to stop noise and traffic pollution

Go Green! I am inspired to propagate my willows to make more willows.

I live in a city. My apartment window overlooks 3 different rubble piles. I wanna start growing trees on rubble around my city. These piles sit and stay ugly for years. I think it'd be funny if the builders of the future had to clear a rubble pile AND a quaking aspen. Or maybe ten quaking aspens and a couple willows. Spring goal

I’d love to see an update on the trees that you planted!:)

I took trimmings from our mature tree. In a week I had eleven trees. Now I’m doing some of the ornamental ones

Great video. Thanks 👍🏻

Thanks for the vid. Expose the cambium wet them and stick them in ground👍.

First, gonna say I'm not an expert. But I have grown and cloned many types of plants. One trick that would probably work better for the hardwood conifers is to take a knife to the base of the stick and remove a thin layer of the outer bark about 3-4 inches in length. Removing the outer layer of bark will make it easier for roots to grow. As for rooting hormone human saliva is surprisingly an excellent aid in the development of roots. (Use gloves if you think Ewwww). Also, instead of just throwing them in water, place them in a pot with a mixture of bark, peat and perlite. Then water and place and tie a plastic bag over the cutting. Leave for several weeks then slowly begin a cycle of bag tied bag loosened to adjust the cutting to the reduced humidity. After the several weeks gently pull on the cutting to test for roots. Again, I am definitely not an expert but I have had much success with other hardwood plants with this method. If anyone reading this has better knowledge to refute my statements or add to it, please feel free! Thanks and good luck :)

Thank you for this information brother

Also if you want small trees and plants to grow fast, Spray water on the foliage after the sun is off it for the day to help cool the plant down and start the growing process right away then water the soil to allow it to suck up that water

Great job.

Great video!

Wow thanks for the knowledge

Austrees are insane. I've seen mine put on well over 10 feet of growth on good years. They stay green for a long time too so make a nice screen...

Great research 👍

well done mate like the saying goes "where theres a WILLOW (will) there,s a way

As someone who is just kind of... screwing around, playing without a real plan, seeing what sorts of plants I can get to grow where... ...Willow is a lot of fun. The mature trees grow fast and you can use even small cuttings from their branches to clone more. They grow wild around here. No shortage of willow cuttings for me. They're pretty good, aesthetically speaking, too. If I had space to waste I'd put them all over. People say you can use willow cuttings soaked in water to induce rooting in plants that won't otherwise root from cuttings, too, but I haven't managed to do it yet. There are variables. Dice up the willows or not. Boil the water or not. Score the "target" plant or not. Try it with different plants, of course. I'll see. If you have any success with any kind of conifer I'd be surprised.

I purchased the Amazon Austree (willow) deal last year in the spring...they came as sticks, too. I placed them in plastic drinking cups in the house for about 6 weeks. Nearly all rooted. By the middle of summer last year they were 3-4 foot tall. I drip irrigated them. Fast forward one year to the middle of this summer. They are nearly dormant. Not really growing. Some are dying. Some are turning yellow. I want to say that out of about 75 I have 65 still alive. Other problem is they are spindly and offer little to no privacy whatsoever. They will not be the type tree I need for a windbreak or privacy. I also planted about 75 hybrid poplars last year the same time and planted them the same time. They were sticks also and rooted in plastic drinking cups. I put about 10 in each cup and maintained the water level for about 6 weeks as well. Some of them are now 8 foot tall, full and healthy looking. I would much rather have 150 hybrid poplars then 1/2 willow. By the way, I've planted hybrid poplars in other properties I've owned. I went by to look at some I planted 8 years ago and they are 50 foot tall and completely form a solid privacy line. I planted those 5 foot apart. The willows I planted 3 foot apart and am sorry I wasted my time and money. I'll be planting more poplars right next to each willow this fall.

In eastern colorado out in the dry sandy plains (bad soil) i have found that if you sprinkle a thin layer of aged compost and cow manure around the base of the tree on top of the ground and then water over it every other day or two that it really accelerates the growth of the Chinese elm, sort of wakes it up buds start popping out and leaves turn darker green,its like the tree can't grow fast enough,by sprinkling the compost and cow manure over the bare spots of the ground the tea it creates through watering has triggered any root suckers that could grow up to be a tree to really take off fast

willow has a lot of growth horomons it can be used for helping other plants grow

Thanks, it be nice if you can show us your procedure in selecting and cutting the willow sticks.

Quality content!

very cool video, enjoyed it a lot :)

I did an experiment with box elder and it sprouted really quickly. I just stuck a cutting in soil and watered it.

Just wanted to say the variety of willow you are using has the highest amount of rooting hormone in the genius. People soak the tops in water to use on their plants on account of the hormone. Cheers

great post .. or just put them in native soil where U found them .. as trees communicate underground networks .. what i learned is .. if a plant is meant to be w you it appears or propagates easily fir U 🧚 ✨🌳🌴🌲

We just stuck the willow straight into the ground and after only 2 years they're already over 6 foot. Great video and lots of good suggestions in the comments section.

Willow trees don't require any rooting hormone, in fact some people make rooting hormone from willow trees. Willows will even root in the ground, they usually grow by rivers and lakes. I have also tried rooting other trees from cuttings but only the willows have been successful every time. The best way to get other trees to root is to do air layering before taking the cuttings.

Nice experiment

Great to know man..Thanks for sharing...;-p

Airated water daily (so pouring out half the water and putting your thumb on the end of the hose causing it to be high pressure to force air into the water) for other plants/trees should get them to root Thank you so much for your video

Add the other cuttings with the willow cuttings. Willows has a naturally occurring hormone that makes plant root quickly. What I do is, i use a bucket with air stone attach to a air pump add water willow and other cuttings. Watch the magic..

Thanks, Country Andrew Schultz. ;)

Wonderful testimony about your rooting planting experience !💓s c ribed you. Nw frnd.

Since the year ago when you did this video how are your propagated trees doing a year later?

I have hope for the branches I planted. I dipped them in water for about 3 hrs then dipped them in a root powder before planting them.

Willow is your rooting compound. You put the willow in the water with the other types of trees you want to root after the willow has developed roots

Willow trees are also good as a rooting medium for other trees. Just put the same kind of cuts as you showed and add other trees to it.

Willows are amazing but for your screening purposes the fast growing evergreens is probably the better choice. Just make sure they're protected from deer and rabbits and maybe set up a soaker hose with a cheap timer for the first year.

lombardy poplar seems like a good tree to plant in my opinion

how to propagate cottonwood Stick a few in a gallon pot of peat based mix, firm around them, keep them moist and in complete shade. A plastic bag or a bottle over them will help keep in moisture. They will take awhile to root. You can split them out in spring and give them their own pots.

Put willow sticks in around in a pot of soil.and weave them.they will root and they grow as weaved..once astablished you can plant them out..they look beautiful

Hi there! Is there something natural made in home that you can use to germinate branches?

Do you have an update on the trees that grew and how they are doing?

Thank you! I saw that you mentioned what climate zone you were in, but the cc didn't tell me any more.. Would you mind telling me what zone you are in? You answered every question that I was looking for. Much appreciated.

You might want to score the bottoms and add root powder.

*Hey Dave Writh* can you please by the grace of God provide us with a second update? It would be fantastic! 💖💖

I think evergreens that produce cones can only be grown from the seed/pine nut. We’ve harvested some from the pine cones and grew some trees from them.

I believe willow trees are popular cuz they're self-propagating, as willow is a central ingredient in natural rooting hormone to root any plant cutting.

You could clone any plant if you use “cloning” powder. I forget what it is actually called but I have done it and it does work

How are the trees going now?

Dave, purchase an aquarium air-pump, air lining and an air stone/air disc. Adding a bubbler will promote root-growth, you’ll have a way higher success rate.

How do they look now?

try rooting hormones as well

also possible to just plant them. they will root in the dirt.

I love the video. And I am going to follow your advice in get a willow. Question I don't know if you could help me but how big of a branch can you get a root started on do they have to be small? Reason why I'm asking when I was younger a branch broke off of one of our trees was roughly for in around and maybe 9 ft long or so and I shoved it in some mud and it grew to a massive tree. Mind you it was next to our pond so it always had water. My thoughts if I can get a big Branch to grow it won't take as long to get big and put off shade

Curly Willow and weeping willow will both start in water you don't have to use little sticks you can use the whole Branch whatever you can handle and your trees we'll start out much larger don't leave a bunch of them in the bucket or laying together in the pond for too long because they will all root together

When can we see a update

My daughter's friend snapped a small twig off the neighbor's mimosa tree and I thought what the heck, let's put it in water. It's been about a month and we've got a root!

I’d love to see an update to now?

Great video. Are you saying the willow roots will go through sewer and water lines?

I've heard it's illegal to do this, is that true? Or just if reselling without license?

Any update on your trees this video is 3 years old but I'm trying to do this in my yard thank you for the great information.

Why not use the root promoter?

Omg. I would have never bought a home that close to a highway. It would drive me nutd

Hi,appreciate what you’ve done 👍 I have one question,do you change the water every day or just put them in water and wait for the roots?

Pour willow water in the other buckets, willow tea is rooting hormone.

Hi, should i put them in a bigger like bucket or should a cup be enough to grow the roots

If you prorated several different fruit species to one trunk will each fruit taste as it should?

Great video. Also, nice shirt, go green! :)

willows produces a growth hormone ....... which you can use to root other plants

Open a tin of canned fish in water not oil, dig a hole pour the fish with the water into the soil, put your tree on it and watch it grow, can be used for tomatoes 🍅 cucumbers 🥒and lots of things. Just saw a video on it. Comments were amazing. Sorry don't know what video it was or I would mention it. To give him credit. Happy planting. 👍

What about the annoying noise caused by the highway? You need a whole forest to stop tgat

this works with elderberry!

Please give an update on your trees.

Update video??

Try to take the cuttings 2 days prior to full moon, is when all the plant hormones and juice are in branches instead of the roots, and you can notice increase of success rate.

You can make root promoter from you willow tree look it up on youtube.

I've heard that propagation only works on stalks that don't have bark yet -- so the pines you had would never work. I've heard pines are possible but you have to find the growing tip of a primary branch & use the part that hasn't developed bark yet. I've heard similar about cottonwood & it seems like a rule of thumb. Your willow stalks were green-skinned -- no bark, probably why they worked so great.

Do you have an update on these trees? Also what zone are you in?

What time of the year do we take cuttings from trees

When is the best time to grow the sticks after they get a roots

Are you able to give us a update? Im propagating a lombardy poplar and im interested how those would grow

greatest unanswered question...what state/county are you in. Makes all the difference in the world.sooooo??????

cottonwood works very well but i do not suggest them unless you like huge branches in your yard any time the wind blows.

i am planting a redwood because its my favorite tree, do you need rooting hormones?

Update?

Grow Indian varieties of trees like peepal,banyan,figs,tamarind tree these give more oxygen and grows extremely large

You must have good soil .