Pepper layering?
Have any of you tried to make a layering on a hot pepper plant? I have an Aji Mango that has one branch growing horizontally to the ground and I took the opportunity to cover the branch with soil and put a small stone on top. It sounds like an option to expand the root system and let the pepper get more of the ground. Attached is a picture of the pepper (it spent the winter in the garden and is already showing flower buds). You can't see the branch I'm trying to root though.
Does this sound like a bad plan and two plants weighing each other down or a good plan and expanding the roots to absorb more out of the ground?
by Safe-Tank-6681
3 Comments
So far as I know pepper branches do not root as readily as other nightshades like tomatoes
Seems like a good experiment to me. Keep in mind it could take more than a month for the stem to root. Give your plant some organic fertilizer
I’m pretty sure it will kill that branch. Peppers are going to either sprout new shoots or continue giving energy to the higher up branches rather than push it to that branch I believe. I actually tried to wire some long branches down similar to a weeping tree and the pepper plant just killed those branches and put new shoots out instead.
It may make it more susceptible to disease as well. But, if you already did it i would just send it and see what happens in the name of science