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You asked for advise about your sickly seedlings, and the resounding concurrence is that you should just apply supplementary lights to the little guys, but you say you will not do it.  What advise did you think you would get when you started this thread?  You will absolutely need to take some time, effort, and resources and devote them to your commitment to grow these peppers, at least while they are young.  If you truly did neglectfully grow a few peppers half-assed in your window sill last year and it worked... then that is amazing... and there is such thing as beginners luck... but if you really want to consistently grow healthy, happy peppers, then you need to invest in about $30 worth of lights.  I counted 41 jiffy pots (I counted once---might be off).  When you thin to one plant per jiffy pot, you will have 41 pepper plants.  They can get along just fine in those jiffy pots for about a month after germination before they will be wanting a transplant up to a 4 inch pot.  At that point you will have a little over 2x 10-20 trays worth of peppers (10-20 trays are a type of tray.)  This will easily fit under 2x 4 foot t5, t8, t10, or t12 florescent shop lights.  The bottom line is, and implied by multiple people previously, if you cant invest a little coin for the baby plants, then you are being neglectful.  Many of us love our plants like pets, and its just a shame to see this happen.
 
When you start a thread on this forum looking for advice or help. You are going to get it. Probably more than you expect. That doesn't mean you are going to like it or want to follow it. But it is going to be advice with the best interest of your pepper plants in mind. Peppers plants have requirements and you cant just wish them away and or ignore them and get the kind of results that most anyone would be striving for. The thing to do is admit to yourself that regardless of last years results, this years grow isn't working out and you have a consensus of growers here telling you virtually the same thing. Your pepper plants are telling you the same thing. Now its time to take a mulligan and rethink what you want to do and get advice on how best to proceed.
We'll all be here to help.

Hybrid Mode 01 said:
 
     Peppers definitely will grow adventitious roots. Although only up to a certain age. Once they start to lignify and develop bark, they lose that ability.
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Well that info is just a little later getting here, where was it when I was growing leggy peppers. :D
 
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