Rooting Cuttings

[Sher]

I had to move the tomatoes to make room in the Bounty for the Fairytale eggplant. Since I didn't have a machine available to put the tomatoes into, I just took cuttings. They will go into a Harvest that I am emptying tonight.

I also had damaged my peppers by forcing them (with bloom booster) to produce more than they should. It left the plants weakened. So today I took cuttings and put them in the seed starter.

This way I'll have healthy new starts for the Sweet Heat peppers.

[Sher]

I finally got the rooted Red Windowbox tomato cuttings into the Harvest today, along with the spearmint taken from the Bounty.

The spearmint will eventually go into a pot.

[Sher]

The Red Window Box cuttings are thriving in the Harvest.

thegrindre, where are you?  Please be well. I took my idea of trying these in a Harvest from you.

[Sher]

The pepper cuttings aren't doing well. They are rotting instead of rooting.

So I'll be planting more Sweet Heat pepper seeds soon, because we really love them!

Thanks so much for sending me the original seeds to try, Shawn. I found more at Totally Tomatoes.

[Shawn]

You are welcome.  They are one of out favorites.  This is the FIRST time I do not have a Sweet Heat growing.  I need to find where to plant one.

[Sher]

The Red Windowbox tomato cuttings are growing like weeds. So much faster than restarting from seed!

[Sher]

I am going to split this off into a tomato thread of its own, since the topic has changed from rooting the cuttings to growing the plants to maturity.