Talk:Willow water

Searching for references, i found
 * "In the 1950s horticulturalist C.E. Hess discovered that willow diffusate or willow water greatly improved rooting success. Willow water is actually a tea or slurry made by placing 50 to 100, 6-inch-long willow twigs into a gallon of water. The mixture is left to brew for 4-6 weeks. The mixture is strained and the remaining liquid is used to root cuttings." -- http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/3799/
 * google search for C.E. Hess willow diffusate yields http://www.sna.org/Resources/Documents/97resprocsec01.pdf and "The Truth About Garden Remedies: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why" By Jeff Gillman, which also reference Hess but show the practice is of marginal value: "Easy-to-root plant diffusates as postulated by Hess (1959) and Kawase (1970,1971,1972) may be the missing ingredients needed to help overcome rooting failure in difficult-to-root plants." 135.23.66.249 (talk) 04:44, 2 June 2014 (UTC)