Rooting of honeysuckle's (Lonicera japonica L.) stem cuttings under treatment of natural and chemical compounds

  Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica L.) is a valuable ornamental plant from climbing groups with many usages in green space. Thus, its production in short time with better commercial quality is very important. One of the important proceedings in propagation process of plants is improving the speed of rooting and shortening this propagation stage. This is happening mostly with the use of various chemical compounds and methods. Today, use of natural materials as an alternative for chemical compounds is concerned with improving rooting of cuttings in ornamental plants that in some cases have observed better and effective influence of these compounds compared with chemicals. Current research has taken place for studying the effect of some natural compounds (organics) in compare with the usual and chemical rooting compound (IBA) on rooting of honeysuckle's stem cuttings. Also, effect of kinds of human hormonal pills on rooting of this plant were studied. This experiment based on completely randomized design with 25 treatments in six groups of treatments including Indole butyric acid (IBA), aspirin pill, LD pill, natural honey, grape syrup and Arabic gum in four concentrations comparing to control (distilled water) in five replications with five cuttings in each replication was done in Gorgan agricultural research center and horticultural department laboratory during 2015-2016 year. Rooting traits including rooting percent, number of primary and secondary roots, length of primary roots, fresh and dry weight of roots and survival percent of Honeysuckle stencuttings were measured in this experiment. According to obtained results from this experiment, natural and chemical treatments had significant effect at 1% Level on rooting traits of Honeysuckle's stem cuttings. The best and highest quantity and quality of roots were observed in 1000 mg/l of indole butyric acid and 60% of natural honey. Study of other natural and chemical treatment showed that %20 concentration of Arabic gum, % 20 grape syrup, 0.5 pill/L aspirin (40 mg/L) and 2 pill/L human LD (0.36 mg/L) showed the best results in compare with other concentrations and control. Due to the desirable effects of natural compounds such as natural honey on rooting of Honeysuckle cuttings, by consideration the economic efficiency, health and effective role of this compounds in organic agriculture, the use of these natural compounds are in priority and suggested as an alternative to chemical compound like indole butyric acid. Also, best concentration of other treatments are still usable, because of their significant preference in compare with control and their positive role in accelerating rooting of cuttings