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Posted by scotty66 8 Hutto TX (My Page) on

Wed, Feb 1, 12 at 23:12

when transplanting your pepper sprouts from the seed tray to small pot and then to larger pot... do you bury the plant deeper, like you would a tomatoe plant?

I was just browsing youtube and found a video where the gardener said peppers won't root out of the stem (didn't say it would hurt the plant, other than making it shorter). See link at bottom.

Here is a link that might be useful: youtube video of transplanting

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Posted by esox07 4a Wisconsin (My Page) on
Wed, Feb 1, 12 at 23:56

I planted mine a little deeper each time I transplanted last year. I dont know that they rooted from the stem but others on this list claimed the would. Never the less, I think it helped, especially when I transplanted to the final containers for the summer. My plants were tall and weak before they got hardened off good and planting them a bit deeper helped. I won't be hesitant to stake them this year. For some reason, I just didn't wan't to stake them. I guess I just figured they should be able to handle 30+ mph winds on their own. haha.
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Posted by habjolokia none (zellmarkj@yahoo.com) on
Thu, Feb 2, 12 at 8:01

My take on it is that as long as they are seedlings it's fine, as they grow the woody stems I would think that would not be good to plant them deeper at that point. I figure if clipping can root though not easily I see no reason why the young stems would not eventually root. Maybe someone with the time can do that as a project to find out, won't be me but maybe someone.

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Posted by Edymnion 7 (My Page) on
Thu, Feb 2, 12 at 14:03

I can categorically refute that they will not root from the stem. I have an ornamental pepper I repotted into a decorative container that I made where the base of the stem stays pretty well shaded, and I can see right now its trying to grow roots just above the soil level that definitely were not there when I transplanted it. This pepper stem was already beginning to go woody when I transplanted it too.

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