Re: Propagation of vegetables from cuttings?

Hidey ho!

     I seem to recall having done cuttings of bell peppers before.  And a
friend of mine claimed success with eggplants.  Both of these are Solanacea
members, and I usually find that Solanacea yield cuttings with relative
ease.  If they have already fruited, as I suspect that they have, they may
prove to be a bit more difficult.  The same methods you might use for
tomatoes should work equaly well with either of these.

    Eggplants are interesting because they apparently have to ripen a fair
amount beyond what I would normally consider sufficient for the table
before they produce viable seed.  This was rather frustrating for me the
first few times I tried to save seed from an eggplant.

Best wishes,
Glider --zone 5

At 12:20 PM 11/8/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>I have some eggplants and peppers which are still thriving in our zone 9
>climate. Some of the peppers I can pot up and take onto the porch before we
>get our short seasonal killing frost in January. But I would like to try
>propagating some of them by cutting, if possible.

>Has anyone attempted to root  eggplants or peppers from cuttings? I do
>tomatoes successfully all the time, but have not tried the former. If it
>works, what is the best technique?
>
>

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