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    Dp pepper stems rot...?

    I've just been pottering in the greenhouse (trying not to cry about my potato blight!!!) and decided that one of the smaller peppers needed to be potted on. I prepared the new pot with compost and when I turned the existing pot upside down to tease the pepper out of it, the pepper stem just parted company with the rest of itself - does that make sense?

    I was left with a pot of compost plus roots in the one hand and the pepper stem/leaves in the other with not a single root piece attached! How bizarre & never ever happened before.

    My BIL has been watering the GH last few days and I think he waters from above - could this have caused the stem to rot do you think?

    BTW - I've stuck the stem into rooting powder and just stuck it into the new compost on the basis of 'nothing ventured, nothing gained' - is it likely to take root or should i just compost it and be done with it?

    thanks folks
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    Constantly soggy compost will cause the root/stem rot only... water when needed. although watering from top is not desirable it won't hurt a few times. I normally mulch the clay pots with gravel.

    Forget rerooting... its dead.

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    • #3
      Peppers do supposedly root from the stem like toms (haven't tried it). You'd probably need to cut the rotten section off the bottom first though.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by tamsin View Post
        Peppers do supposedly root from the stem like toms
        they will grow extra roots from the stem if the plant is rooted and healthy.
        This one ain't


        over-watered, I reckon.
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          bummer! feels like that kind of day when everything is, or has already gone wrong! and still nothing happening in the egg/chick department!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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