Dp pepper stems rot...?

[Scottishnewbie]

I've just been pottering in the greenhouse (trying not to cry about my potato blight!!!) and decided that one of the smaller peppers needed to be potted on. I prepared the new pot with compost and when I turned the existing pot upside down to tease the pepper out of it, the pepper stem just parted company with the rest of itself - does that make sense?

I was left with a pot of compost plus roots in the one hand and the pepper stem/leaves in the other with not a single root piece attached! How bizarre & never ever happened before.

My BIL has been watering the GH last few days and I think he waters from above - could this have caused the stem to rot do you think?

BTW - I've stuck the stem into rooting powder and just stuck it into the new compost on the basis of 'nothing ventured, nothing gained' - is it likely to take root or should i just compost it and be done with it?

thanks folks

[Paulottie]

Constantly soggy compost will cause the root/stem rot only... water when needed. although watering from top is not desirable it won't hurt a few times. I normally mulch the clay pots with gravel.

Forget rerooting... its dead.

[tamsin]

Peppers do supposedly root from the stem like toms (haven't tried it). You'd probably need to cut the rotten section off the bottom first though.

[Two_Sheds]

Peppers do supposedly root from the stem like toms

they will grow extra roots from the stem if the plant is rooted and healthy.
This one ain't


over-watered, I reckon.

[Scottishnewbie]

bummer! feels like that kind of day when everything is, or has already gone wrong! and still nothing happening in the egg/chick department!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!