Hard to find willow branches? Don't worry - just crush them and mix with a little water, and your cuttings will still sprout new shoots.

When doing things in life, we all like to look for little tricks, because this not only gets things done successfully but also boosts efficiency quite a bit. This approach works just as well for growing flowers, and many gardening experts like to find all kinds of little gardening tricks in daily life - watering flowers with rice-washing water, propping up flower pots with bricks, and so on all work well for growing flowers, but the most useful of all is probably rooting water made from willow branches.

I believe everyone is familiar with the method of making rooting water from willow branches, because in our daily flower growing, root rot is unavoidable, and at times like this we need to repot to save our beloved flowers, and before putting the flowers back into the pot, first soaking them in rooting water will be very effective for the care that follows. This method can also be used when we take plant cuttings - dip a little, and the rooting speed can be sped up quite a bit.

But in spring and autumn, willow branches really are everywhere and easy to find; however, when autumn and winter come, the willow trees begin to drop their leaves, and naturally willow branches become hard to find. At times like this, if you still want to make rooting water, what should you do? Huahua only learned a few days ago that if you crush garlic and onion together and soak them in water to use for growing flowers, the effect is the same as willow branch rooting water. How exactly should you do it? Huahua will tell you right now.

First, prepare the garlic and onion you need, then put them into a container in a 1:4 ratio and crush them, and finally add water to the crushed onion and garlic, pouring in until it is about 80% full. Then, after successful fermentation, this alternative garlic rooting water is ready to use.

It is autumn right now, a very good time for taking plant cuttings. When we take cuttings, we can soak the branches in garlic water for about half an hour, then take them out and let them dry for later use. Everyone knows garlic has a sterilising effect, so branches soaked in garlic water will have more than half their bacteria eliminated, and when we take cuttings afterwards there will be no rotting or pest and disease problems.

Garlic can not only help disinfect and sterilise cutting branches, but also let plants in the growth period sprout and bloom faster. We can mash the garlic into a paste, then add water to dilute and mix it, keeping the ratio at 1:3, and remember to filter out the garlic residue - it must not be poured directly onto the soil. Pouring this garlic water onto flowering plants in their growth period can boost their growth speed, and they will bloom even more vigorously.

If the plants and flowers in your home attract small flying insects, garlic water can solve that too. We mash the garlic into a paste and add soapy water, then finally mix it with clean water according to the ratio, and use this garlic water to spray the leaf surfaces; after a while you will find that the insects have almost all disappeared.

Flower lovers who want rooting water but cannot find willow branches might as well give this garlic water a try - it is easy to get and has many benefits!