We put forward a new phenomenological method for calculating the slope of radial trajectories from values of ground states and vacuum condensates. The method is based on a large-Nc extension of borelized spectral sum rules. The approach is applied to the light nonstrange vector, axial and scalar mesons. The extracted values of slopes proved to be approximately universal and are in the interval 1.4 ± 0.1 GeV ². As a by-product, the given method leads to prediction of the second radial trajectory with ground state mass lying near 0.6 GeV.