Started some peppers about a month ago and some of them have these weird growths at the bottom. I have a fan blowing on them for a few hours a day but the base of the stems are still weak and a few even toppled over.
by Joseph3194
5 Comments
potagerMB
Unless I’m mistaken it is trying to throw out more roots. You could transplant it deeper.
rickrick1986
Pepper are in the nightshade family, like tomatoes, and just like tomatoes, they can regrow roots from their stems, this is why I bury my young peppers when I pot them up, but only in the early stages of the plants life, as unlike tomatoes they can only do it when they are young
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Rootin tootin
dianesmoods
Adventitious roots
galileosmiddlefinger
[Adventitious roots.](https://www.britannica.com/science/root-plant) They are very cool. You can pile up some soil higher on the stems of those peppers; they’re pushing out those roots as a stress response to being weakly anchored.
5 Comments
Unless I’m mistaken it is trying to throw out more roots. You could transplant it deeper.
Pepper are in the nightshade family, like tomatoes, and just like tomatoes, they can regrow roots from their stems, this is why I bury my young peppers when I pot them up, but only in the early stages of the plants life, as unlike tomatoes they can only do it when they are young
Rootin tootin
Adventitious roots
[Adventitious roots.](https://www.britannica.com/science/root-plant) They are very cool. You can pile up some soil higher on the stems of those peppers; they’re pushing out those roots as a stress response to being weakly anchored.