Cloning Peppers In Water

Slice away a pepper plant leaf and leaf petiole along with a 5 cm section of stem.
Cloning peppers in water. Cloning pepper cuttings doesn t have to be difficult. The aqua clone aeration pump draws in oxygen from the atmosphere and produces turbulence to continuously nourish your cuttings. Place cuttings directly in water or a waterlogged medium such as rock wool peat sphagnum or perlite we ve had the best luck with placing directly into a cup of water. Follow the step by step guide below to successfully clone your favorite pepper plant.
You can clone a plant with a pair of garden shears and a cup of water. Use distilled water for best results. Pepper plant propagation enables you to clone your hot pepper plants. Here i will show you some simple steps to make your peppers root into successful clones with my thai ch.
The aqua clone 24 site cloner works on the principle of re circulating super oxygen rich water created by the aqua clone aeration pump. Water the tray by placing it into a cake pan filled with water to a shallow depth. Fill a potting tray with peat moss. Rooting a pepper cutting is a great way to save and regrow a favorite pepper variety or grow a hybrid variety without saving seeds.
Allow the peat moss to absorb the water through capillary action until the entire planting tray is as damp as a wrung out sponge. Overwinter the pepper plants in the house or plant outside if weather conditions permit. A clone is simply a plant cutting that develops roots and becomes a new plant. I let it sit in water for 2 3 weeks and not much happened root wise so after that i just decided to get it in the hydroponic kratkey setup to see what would happen.
I loved this cross so much and i didn t grow enough so i decided to propagate to make more. Cloning plants is not a process that requires a laboratory and a lot of special equipment. As mentioned above plant cloning simply involves the rooting of plant cuttings. Aqua clone has integrated finger cut outs in the lid to easily remove neoprene inserts.
Experiment cloning peppers what is currently happening. It had no leaves and no roots. How to clone your favorite pepper plant. Plants will root well in soil but you can also root certain plants in water.
While growing peppers from cuttings is more common with ornamental type peppers any type of pepper plant can be used. No spray jets to clog up.