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Tue, Mar 29, 11 at 2:13
| I'm contemplating planting peppers in a 4" Pvc tube, either set up as a tower or possibly hanging horizontally with a plant every 6 inches or so.
Anyone have experience growing in pvc? Do you think this is sufficent spacing and will allow good root growth? Thanks, Scott |
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- Posted by gardengal19 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 29, 11 at 7:27
| Too confining for their roots. Think of something else. Their roots can spread out as wide as the plant gets. |
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- Posted by Paperfinch 6b TN (My Page) on Tue, Mar 29, 11 at 11:44
| I would be concerned about growing anything in PVC due to the dioxin (a known carcinogen) that leeches out of it. |
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| I think a 4 inch tube is definetly too small for most pepper plants unless its a small ornamental type pepper maybe? Just my opinion |
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| These would be jalapeno, serrano, thai and some SE asian varieties. What about the horizontal idea? Growing each one spaced along the pipe about 6-9" would give the roots room to grow laterally.... |
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| I believe a lot of waterlines are made with PVC in modern homes so I would not be concerned about contaminants. I think the idea would be a fun experiment but I wouldn't bank my season of pepper growing on it. I would definitely confine my variety selection to the smaller varieties since I think the pipe would be a bit too small otherwise. |
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| I think it's a cool idea, but I would worry the 4' diameter wouldn't be enough room for root growth, even laterally. I'd love to see it tried on a 6' or 8' pipe. Below is a link to a Tribe topic that discusses sourcing inexpensive PVC pipe. Looks like salvage is the way to go... I'm going to start keeping my eyes open for some of the larger size, I can't resist an experiment. :-D |
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