+Avanti Morocha I have only tried this method on herbs and peppers. I've never done Bougainvillea, so I don't know. It's definitely worth a shot if you have those available.
Okay what about when I'm overwintering my peppers? Can I use the same message when I'm tripping back my pepper plants? That way I can save and make more pepper plants from my existing plant right? Or will this not work when overwintering?
People don't realize how easy growing food and herbs can be! Nice video, haven't took pepper cuttings before. My Bell Peppers produce decent in my Southern window in winter. It still gets 26 at night here in mid april.
Lol, it looks so easy & straightforward and yet I can never seem to get roots on my cuttings ... Don't have any rooting hormone though, maybe I'll grab some willow leaves for this next try. :-) Thanks for the video Khang!
JT Bear I would think the plant would need nutrients to support the rooting for such a thick piece. If not it will focus on staying alive. seaweed and cal mag liquid
I had a similar problem when I tried rooting them in water. Had those small white bumps on the stem, showing that roots wanted to form, but they din't want to shoot outwards. Solved it by sticking cuttings in rockwhool cubes (coco choir also works) and they rooted like crazy. My theory is, that the plant needs to probe for that water and if water is all around it just won't bother sending roots out. Theory backfires when you see roots perfectly for in the video though. But still, it's a possible solution
Hey khang another method for using the rooting hormone that would probably work better is dip your cutting into water after it is all trimmed down and then dip your cutting end into your rooting hormone and let the branch sit for a little bit before u put it into water so the hormones can penetrate the stem. Either way cool update and peppers are some hardy plants that show great will to live.
I know and soil propagation you dip it in the hormone and then flick it really hard to get off the excess powder before you stick it in the soil. So I'm thinking in water Maybe you leave it sitting dry for a while cuz it's probably going to wash away?
@@leebrasher5242It really shouldn't matter if you leave the hormone to dry on the cutting or not. The hormone is now in the water...that the plant can still easily access.
Have you tried just putting the stem in moist potting mix? It worked for me with Tomatoes this year. I know peppers don't root as easily as Tomatoes, so maybe that would be harder. Also, do you think blocking out the light would help the roots grow?
+Jeb Gardener Yes, I have done moist potting mix and it also worked, but this method works better for me. I have tried blocking out lights, it just make all the leaves fall off.
I love your videos but I have a concern. Every rooting compound I've purchased in the past has warning labels saying not to use on plants intended for human consumption. Is the Miracle Grow version food safe?
If you have such frequent wind damage, I would stake the peppers like you would a tomato. I always do it, because where I live it takes just one ferocious thunderstorm to wreck a plant.
+Khang Starr hey great video! my .20 cent is start you growing in jan and forget about the cloning. I dont say it's bad or anything. I'm saying that it is better for me and might be for some others. I have done some cloning and overwinter and early starts and the early starts alway do better and the only think i can think why is that they might have had better or new mix soil and the other didn 't have enough nuts. All the overwinter plants had poor fruit production that year, smaller fruits or to my fault when into shock from going from indoor to outdoors
Doesn't it need at least one leaf to photosynthesize sugars for the roots to grow? That is the purpose of the cotyledons, the seed provides the sugars that allow it to germinate, but there wouldn't be any significant source of stored sugar with no roots to begin with in a cutting. I am not arguing, that is my perception, I could be wrong, or maybe certain plants are different than others.
Yes and this is why when people overwinter their pepper plants, they remove ALL leaves, and keep any growing leaves off of the plant until it is closer to the next Spring.
I accidentally cloned ( I don't care if that's not the right word it sounds better ) my mulberry tree had two branches in dirt over the winter and they got new growth I'm having trouble cloning my hot chili plant
I don't know if using tap water is always the way to go. Where I live, there is a lot of chlorine added to our water, and I have found that with some pepper varieties this actually damages them. To combat this, I will be building a charcoal water filtration system to give my plants the clean, fresh water they need to thrive.
Yeah, i have tried that method for the last 3-5yrs i i dont have any luck with my super hot peppers, but my tomatoes work all the time tho! This year i left the pepper cutting in water with a water pump and out of all five not one of them rooted> they all have the rooting paste on them and at the end of the summer still not roots.
I have a hard time doing this and im never successful im going to try this i think i was messing up by putting a humidity doom on them hopefully im successful this time thanks for the video
Did you cover the bottles to keep light away from the roots? The largest pepper branch that developed roots the quickest had relatively large leaves. The rooting hormone stem was almost a bare twig at the beginning of the project. Have you seen that pattern before? I thought the smallest stems would be the fastest. You had nice plants after only 16 days. Your home must be very clean.
I have done this experiment a few more times after. I find that if you take cutting from an older branch, it roots much faster than the younger branches. The farther the branches are to the bottom of the parent tree, the better the success rates. I did not cover the container, it is as you seen in the video.
I've played around with propagating peppers... And they are very very slow to root. Faster just to plant a seed. Would only do this method if there is a special reason which would make sense.
Unless it's a rare variety and you can't get more seeds, propagating pepper plants is not a good use of space and time. Now if you have room and the plant was damaged like this one then go for it. But propagating a branch will not grow into a full size plant as big as the parent. You will not get a measurable amount more between the propagated plants and parent than if you left the parent as-is. It's not like an herb such as basil that you can clone. You can't clone pepper plants. Again, if it was an accident and you have room, save it. I spent an entire season propagating branches and tops of various plants after watching this and ended up with the same number of peppers than the same sized plants that I didn't propagate. I just wound up spending more money on supplies and time to maintain multiple small plants instead of having one big one. Some plants produced less peppers in total because time was lost on starting the roots.
Do you know if it's better to cut under a node? I kerp trying to root cuttings and I only fail, but that won't stop me. My mom has an old tree that we don't know the name of so I'm determined to get a cutting
I have a red ghost pepper plant and it grew 3 peppers but now it hasn't had any more buds or flowers since. I moved them inside but, still, nothing... The plant is doing fine, I just wanted to know what I could do and if I took a cutting to regrow, how would I do it?
Yeah, Om pretty sure the hormone instructions do not advise diluting it with water. In fact: "During propagation, rooting hormone should be applied immediately before you place your clipping in the soil. For powdered hormones, dip the base of the cutting into the hormone, then shake gently to remove any excess. Place the cutting into moist soil, loosely covering the base." Jan 28, 2019. You're wasting time and rooting hormone.
Hi...Cutting with no more than four leafes,i put in cup with very wet soil .Cup is in nyalon bag,to keep moist and its on warm place.No direct sunlight ,no hormon.Sprinkle leafes and soil with clean water once a day . Whole cutting is 8cm long,and at least 3cm in soil...never had problem with rooting.
In tried cutting my habanero plant from cuttings. It rooted a little bit and tried to plant it on loam soil but it its leaves started to yellow. I hope you can give advise how to make it survive
U forgot 2 spary them with water without roots it doesn't observe water so u spay the leafs and they will keep the plant most and alive cover it with a plastic container so the water stays in the air
Hey Khang, I love your channel. I started growing peppers last spring and I visit your channel daily for tips and inspiration. I've adopted a number of your methods with great success, now I've grown 6 different types. I just wanted to say thanks for the great videos and pepper community!
How much lighting does the cuttings need to grow do you place it in a shaded area away from direct sun? Can you cover this in a video? Thanks for sharing, we are learning a lot from you. Thanks
For the first few days, I leave the lights OFF full time, to let the cuttings recover from the stress and shock. After this, I will put them in a South facing window( for Northern hemisphere) full time. If you have an artificial light source...you can leave them under this light for anywhere from 4-8 hours/day.
Do you have a video where we can actually see the set up with the plants? The link just shows the tent and the lights. Are they all close to the floor or are some tall? In this video everything looks the same size.
Hey, UK here ✌️. Thank you for explaining so well. Really enjoying watching your videos especially on Aloes & propagating pepper plants! 👌 Also, I just melted..loveee your accent! 😍🫠
Hi Khang, I've had good success bare-root transplanting pepper from outdoors to the indoor garden. I blast all the soil and pests from roots and leaves, spray with insecticide and pot up in fresh, sterilized potting mix. The plants don't show any sign of shock. In fact, I've found the plants have more vigor once transplanted. On the other hand, trying to root pepper cuttings has been slow going for me. I see the root buds and new leaf clusters and even a flower, which I pinched off, but only one plant has a 1/4" root so far. I think I'd need to put the plants on a heating mat (or run lights on the shelve below) to speed up the rooting. It's not even warm enough for growing peppers here indoors without bottom heating. Well, they'll stay alive, but grow too slow. I also bare-root transplanted Swiss Chard and they're fine also. Anyway, if fungus gnats are a problem bare-root transplanting might be the solution people need, so I thought I'd share my findings.
Hey man..really appreciate this video. 🙌A storm broke one of my best bellpepper plants in half. I was wondering if using an ordinary cococoir jiffy pellet soaked in rooting hormone would work if I just stick my cutting in it. The jiffy pellet I'm using is plain cococoir with no manufacturer added rooting hormone/booster in it.
Great tutorials. I'm trying to propagate Charapita peppers from cuttings, - and unfortunately never work. On the other hand, I've saved seeds, and the seed do not germinate.... any suggestion? Thank you
Great vid Khang. I love the experiments that you do and you also make it clear and easy to follow. I look forward to seeing your pepper crops for next season. Quick question, how often do you change the water in the cuttings containers and does it matter if algae grows in the water? I noticed it looked like some was growing in yours
+Nick Fury If you see algae, change the water and rinse the container. Algae will restrict root development. I believe they also suck all oxygen out of the water.
I cut a small Branch off the Carolina Reaper that I have and I put it into one of those cubes the green cubes that you soak up in water as soon as I put it in there within seconds Branch started to tip over get weak any suggestions?
You are awesome and so simple. I have subscribed to your channel. Awesome. After you propagate the roots, can you just transfer it into potting soil or do you have to wait?
Roots are starting to show on the cutting of my overwintered cayenne after 3 weeks. i left quite alot of leaves since the leaves were so small but took away all the flowers. also i gave it nutrients each time i changed the water every other day. I wasnt sure if you could propagate an annuum but i guess you can, but i also wasnt sure if i can overwinter an annuum but here we are 😄 PS: the cutting i have is cut from a young shoot from this spring, i just thought the shoot was getting too long and was thinking of topping all the new shoots so i cut this one just above the 2 first leaves on the shoot. Also this cayenne is somehow special since it sometimes made 2 flowers on the same "spot"(english is not my first language btw) which is not something that annuums do.
I've been using the two cup method to grow my pepper plants from seed and they are doing well, but had a reaper plant I brought in from last summer and it didn't do so well inside, so I cut it back for propagation and now I have several with roots on them. When do you recommend transferring them in to the two cup method.
Once you see roots, give them half strength hydro mix, more roots will develop. Once the roots are about 2-3 inches, you can transplant into larger pots.
If I’m correct, plants rooted in water grow water roots. Which are different from soil roots. They can grab any dissolved oxygen in the water because they’re structurally different. They tend to be finer than soil roots. Soil roots are bad at grabbing oxygen from water. That’s when they suffocate
The plant has nutrients stored in them so they'll last for a bit. Obviously, you won't keep them in water for very long, just long enough for roots to form. Plants with poor nutrition will also have a much hard time surviving and rooting. Works really well with herbs like basil, and tomatoes as well.
