Homemade Rooting Hormones - Do they really work?

The internet is full of DIY rooting hormone content - claiming these lists of household items can be used as a rooting agent to increase propagation success rates and speed of rooting. I put these items to the test, and bring you the video proof of what works and what doesn't.

I test and document trials with 6 different DIY rooting agents, including honey, cinnamon, aloe vera, aspirin, saliva and apple cider vinegar. Some work, some don't.

I used tomato cuttings in all these trials, and used basic water propagation with untreated tap water as a control. If you're looking to improve your propagation success and speed, I'd invite you to check out our entire propagation races playlist, found here:

0:00 Intro
0:37 Honey as a Rooting Hormone
1:30 Aloe Vera as a Rooting Hormone
2:22 Aspirin as a Rooting Hormone
3:15 Cinnamon as a Rooting Hormone
3:40 Apple Cider Vinegar as a Rooting Hormone
4:06 Saliva as a Rooting Hormone

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[hollycosta]

Stumbled on this video while getting ready to use hormone rooting. Grabbed Cinnamon out of the cupboard and after a week notes the roots grew at lest 2 times as fast as the hormone!! Thx

[Nifty-Stuff]

THANK YOU SO MUCH for doing this actual test! So tired of claims of rooting, with zero evidence to back it up. BRILLIANT!

[karmakittenz]

Straight and to the point. No douchey bro intro and no rambling on about liking and subscribing. Just information.

Also, more than a little surprised at the

[Amynon]

Oh my god, I appreciate you so much for including the "does it work" at the start of each list item. Fantastic video, thank you!

[carolday]

That’s a fun experiment! Speaking of cinnamon, its very disinfectant for orchids, i had an orchid suffering black rot many years ago and i read online to clean the rot off, scrape the root stalk and coat the thing in cinnamon. By the time i was done scraping the rot off there were no roots left, the carrot shaped stalk was whittled down it was miserable. I expected this thing to die. The leaves were even shrivelled from lack of water absorption as it had no working roots to drink. So i coated it, replanted in fresh new bark medium and took 2 months but the first air root appeared, (that i could see) the leaves kept alive somehow, and that plant lived another 10 years before it had an unfortunate experience with a cat. Cinnamon is very good for dealing with rot issues. I have also had an orchid get sunburn on a leaf, so i wet the spot and coat with cinnamon and it stops the corruption from spreading so you dont lose the leaf. I am impressed with it. It helped my first orchid regrow roots and survive a bad fungal infection (black rot)

[oferelhashahar]

Do not forget each type of plant needs diffrent amount or none of rooting hormones.So what can work on Tomato may not work on lavender plant or other plants.
Also when using parts of plants as a rooting hormone like the aloe the level of hormones might be diffrent if it is a a leaf from top or down the plant and the light levels it was growing in . I can guess in synthetic hormones it should be same level always. But your experiment is still great and I will try myself on other plants. tnks

[coolbreeze]

I've done the Aloe vera but never tried any of others! This is great wr cant denied the scientific proof you have provided! Cheers

[n.normal]

the scientific rigour in this has me extremely impressed. the last video I needed to watch on the topic! 🌱🙌

[jchals]

I came to this video not knowing what to expect but holy Toledo my guy, your scientific method use was great. Thanks for this great video!

[mememe]

Thank you so much for this. I hate people who pass on folklore tales as advice. Real knowledge is best. You save me weeks or months of testing.

[Dave_en]

Assigning more surface area by making wedge shaped cut on the stem worked for me most of the time. Aloevera is a good fertilizer and we can use it to soak the cuttings initially. Some plants root easily without help of natural or synthetic hormones. For hard to root plants, rooting hormone from nursery is mandatory.

[Scare_D_Cat]

Always learning from this channel - you ROCK! No nonsense, just straight up info. Thanks!

[earthlingi]

What a great myth buster ! awesome work man ... love it !

[minecraftgenix]

this is exactly the video i was looking for, awesome video.

[rhedhaering]

Love this! I just moved overseas and I can't get rooting hormone in my area. Thank you so much for doing this testing!! I was wondering about all the sketchy DIY videos. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[sundayoliver]

Thanks for doing the working of testing these, and for reminding us that what's on the internet is not always useful, we need to use discernment.

[TireSpare]

Thank you so much for your information. you are the professor of plants sir. I just applied cinnnamon powders all around my stems and weak trees

[DisgustingJustinAD]

I appreciate this info, subscribed to your channel. So many youtube channels claim each & every single diy method will work, but they never supply us with actual evidence on how effective each method is.

I'm extremely skeptical about the aspirin method, it always looks like people glued roots on to the aspirin treated plant trimmings 😂😂😂

[compendiumyo]

Now you have a bunch of tomatoe plants ❤ I am really jealous. Thanks for the video I am super excited to try this.

[christianmccain]

This is an excellent video! Thank you for a clean comparison without too much fluff.