In many sometimes we admired a beautiful tree of Willow. 
The Willow is a tree from growing very fast, with deciduous leaves, typical of the northern hemisphere and a lover of moist soil. One of the best known members of the family of the Willows is the Weeping Willow, a beautiful plant with typical drooping branches, with elongated leaves that often have a silky or white underside.
The popularity of this tree is largely due to its versatility: the bark is used in medicine for the content of salicin (from which the acetylsalicylic acid, which is the active ingredient of aspirin) anti-inflammatory and analgesic. The wood is used for the construction of furniture, utensils and veneers, the fiber used to produce paper and ropes, the branches are twisted to build baskets, pots and various objects (Wicker).
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One of the most simple and popular for its own plants from cuttings is par.
The concept is to take a sprig from a plant "donor" or "mother" and make the environment favorable for this development and its roots give rise to a new plant.
This technique allows to obtain plants with the same genetic characteristics of the mother and thus operate power leaving a choice for quality, size, cost and type of plant you're going to grow.
Also, using cuttings from plants growing Advanced allows to shorten the time and get faster harvest.
The type of cuttings can vary from plant to plant (depending on the genre we're going to take hardwood cuttings, semi-woody, herbaceous, leaf, root or succulent) but generally it is an apical branch with leaves, stem and at least one node.
Let's see how: you will first need to sanitize all of the material.
After that inzuppiamo the substrate (for example rock wool cubes or tablets of peat) with water at pH and EC calibrated and squeeze slightly.
The temperature is kept constant at around 20-25 degrees and humidity will have a stable value around 80%. To achieve this ideal propagation environment we can help with a heating pad and a plastic Serretta .
The cuttings should be from plants in excellent health and already grown, but they are the flowering stage.
The stem I will have to be able to support the leaves without bending.
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