Homemade Plant Growth Stimulators

Rooting Cuttings

• 1

  Cut soft willow tips from a living willow tree with pruning shears. Steep the twigs in boiling water for about 48 hours. Willow tree bark contains a compound that helps it plants root very quickly.

• 2

  Add 1 tbsp. of raw honey to the willow tea to prevent bacteria growth. Stir the honey into the warm tea until it dissolves.

• 3

  Slice inch-long slits in your plant cutting, starting from the cut end of the cutting and slicing vertically up the side.

• 4

  Dip the cutting in the willow tea for about 10 minutes before planting.

Eggshells

• 5

  Save the peels from a batch of hard-boiled eggs and let them cool and dry. Eggshells contain high amounts of calcium and potassium that plants require to thrive.

• 6

  Pulverize the eggshells in a nut grinder until you get a fine, white dust.

• 7

  Add the eggshell powder to boiling water. Let the water steep until cooled and water your plants with the resulting solution. This works especially well to perk up poor soil.

Leafy Plant Water

• 8

  Fill a 5-gallon bucket about 1/3 full of leaves such as oak leaves, alfalfa leaves, nettle or comfrey.

• 9

  Pour rainwater into the bucket and set it in a cool, shady place to steep for about 72 hours.

• 10

  Water your plants with the resulting brown water. You should see a difference in a day or so.

• 11

  Soak different leaves to provide different nutrients: oak leaves are a general fertilizer, as is alfalfa. Tea leaves, nettle and comfrey all provide nitrogen. You can also mix several kinds of leaves together.