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Old 27-01-2014, 07:39 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Vitamin C rooting magic

"David Hill" wrote

Indigo wrote:
Christine Walkden was demonstrating taking cuttings on a recent 'Great
Garden Revival' episode and said she tends to use vitamin C tablets
dissolved in water instead of hormone rooting powder when it was
necessary.

I don't generally use any hormone powder for the relatively small number
of cuttings I do, as it goes off and I end up throwing most away and
regretting the purchase. I wondered if anyone here had tried the vit C
method and if you'd recommend it to increase 'strike' rate?


I've also heard of using soluble Aspirin.


That's for when the whole lot fail and you get a headache! :-)
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