And I thought peppers were easy to clone

[internationalfish]

Results on options searched on the internet for homemade rooting options.  HAS to be true......maybe.
Too lazy to go for the rootone powder.

 
Haha, understood. Interesting.

 

[DWB]

We may as well make this thread a bit more interesting. I just now planted the Yellow Scorpion and A Grappoli D'Inverno water babies. We'll see how they do with a crude and rude planting job. Due to their length I stuck an 18" sharpshooter into the bales and simply dropped them in. I'll update after they thrive or dive.
 

 

 

 

[skullbiker]

Im betting they thrive.

 

[nmlarson]

Funny thing is, the brand new water baby clones always set pods a lot sooner than seed babies. Go figure.

I'n not saying it applies to pepper plants and, as usual, I can't locate where I learned it, but the theory is this:

When a tomato plant is mature enough to produce suckers, it also possesses the growth hormones required to produce fruit.
A plant grown from seed has to develop this over time as it matures. The plant grown from a sucker already has it and will always set fruit
sooner than a plant grown from seed. Since they are from the same horticultural family, Solanaceae, could this be true for pepper plants
grown from cuttings, too?

 

[Chorizo857_62J]

My cloning efforts failed.  As weather and humidity heats up here, maybe better conditions.  When I used to do this with landscape plants, I had a mist setup on a timer, and used sterile media in a shaded greenhouse setup.  Worked great. Seeds take a long time, but eventually they have been productive. 

 

[DWB]

Im betting they thrive.

 

They didn't make it. The same crud that took out quite a few of my bale plants got these. Good news is one of them that got hit may live.