Does anyone use garlic for a rooting hormone? Ive seen lots of videos of gardeners in se asia using garlic as a rooting stimulate on fresh cuttings. I thought it was weird but it seemed to work. Then i see a video where a guy roots a whole garlic clove in 2 weeks. In 2 days there was significant new roots coming out of the individual cloves not from the old roots. 4 days in and lots of roots. 1 week and the roots touched the bottom of the bottle. I tried this garlic rooting method expecting it to take 3 tines as long as the video shows cause thatbis how it always seems to go. Well not this time 3 days in and look at this its crazy!
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That is cool but ……… a garlic bulb IS a root , so technically its not growing “ new “ roots. Its just continuing to grow “ as” a root. Mr. @Foreigner knows all about garlic. His wife is an international garlic heiress. 
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For I control the world garlic trade!
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I think @defharo mentioned a type of concoction w bamboo for growth horomones. Maybe he has insight on the subject?
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Hello, new bamboo shoots, fermented with molasses, either aerobically or anaerobically, contain, among other things, phytohormones (auxins, cytokinins, gibberellins) that will help rooting.
Although I prefer to make separate preparations for each phytohormone.
From the sprouted black beans I extract auxins in powder form, which are very important for creating strong anchoring roots in the first few weeks. I also use it as a rooting agent for cuttings and they all root.
I ferment the green (natural) coconut water anaerobically, and it contains, among a multitude of minerals, cytokinins, which are important for promoting cell division. However, I use them in the middle or end of the vegetative growth stage and apply them again 3-4 weeks into the flowering stage, because I first use the auxins to create fat anchor roots, and because the cytokinins inhibit the growth of the main roots in favor of the adventitious roots, the use in the middle of the flowering stage is to promote the growth of the flowers. I have not used this preparation as a rooting agent, but I am sure it works very well.
I only get synthetic gibberellins, but I have used them to germinate seeds. I only use them once in the middle of the flowering stage to promote cell division at the time when the plant is focused on forming flowers.
I use natural honey as a rooting agent for cuttings mixed with the auxin powder. 
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I know nothing of using garlic, but the new, flexible branches on willows contain high levels of auxins (IAA) so people will make a tea using those young shoots, to use as a rooting stimulant.
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He who owns the garlic owns the night.
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This is a very interesting topic as i have had troudle recently with some landrace seeds and a garlic bath souds like it might just be that umpf they need 
thanks bro @420noob
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So maybe if we blend some garlic (preferably out of our own garden , due to diluted ww2 chemicals) and fermented and one could actually add like a shot glass to 4g unchlorinated water and just water seeds/seedlings or soak cuttings sould work the theory is solid
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lmk how it works!
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