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Re: Pepper planting depth

William N Ryan wrote:
> Now, planting pepper tansplants deeper will stabilize the plant, but will
> new roots emerge from the burried stem?  Is the plant stability the
> result of these new roots, or just from the physical effect of deeper
> primary (original) roots?
>
> I will just have to conduct an experiment, but does anyone have any ideas
> or experience?
>
> TIA
> Bill  o;-)

 I have rooted pepper cuttings in water before so I would 'assume' that
if you bury the stem, removing the leaves first, that it would develop
new roots. I always bury the stems on my plants. For those of you who
don't start your own plants and buy nursery grown ones, look for healthy
plants that have more than one plant per cell. These need to be thinned
out as you wouldn't plant two plants together, pinch off the extra
plant, root in water, and you have two plants for the price of one. This
can be done with tomatoes, peppers, basil....

Mary in Napa (CA, zone 9)

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