Separating sweet banana and bell peppers

gregory · March 2, 2015

I read Craig's thread on dense planting and his videos on repotting which were very informative. Since peppers are in the nightshade family are they similar Where you have a few plants in a small cell and you can seperate and repot?

Or would it best to clip off the weakest and leave one per cell and repot.
I am using the 72 cell for the 1020 tray

**carolyn137** · March 2, 2015

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Originally Posted by gregory

I read Craig's thread on dense planting and his videos on repotting which were very informative. Since peppers are in the nightshade family are they similar Where you have a few plants in a small cell and you can seperate and repot?

Or would it best to clip off the weakest and leave one per cell and repot.
I am using the 72 cell for the 1020 tray

I think it's good to remember that Craig developed his dense planting method b'c for many years he was selling many hundreds of plants at the Raleigh, NC Farmer's Market.

I can't remember off hand if he was also selling peppers as well and used the same method, especially if he was selling hot peppers which have much longer germination times.

For many years I was growing many hundreds of plants and varieties of tomatoes but I wasn't selling seedlings at all, just growing them to look at new varieties and saving seed for my SSE listings as well as my annual seed offers.

So I never used a dense planting method.

Carolyn

Stvrob · March 2, 2015

Do whatever suits your needs. They are not difficult to separate, but if you have what you need, and seed is cheap, go ahead and clip them. Pretty sure you don't need to feel guilty.

Redbaron · March 2, 2015

Quote:

Originally Posted by gregory

I read Craig's thread on dense planting and his videos on repotting which were very informative. Since peppers are in the nightshade family are they similar Where you have a few plants in a small cell and you can seperate and repot?

Or would it best to clip off the weakest and leave one per cell and repot.
I am using the 72 cell for the 1020 tray

I have used Craigs method with peppers. Works just fine.

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gregory Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: mobile zone 8 Posts: 83	Separating sweet banana and bell peppers I read Craig's thread on dense planting and his videos on repotting which were very informative. Since peppers are in the nightshade family are they similar Where you have a few plants in a small cell and you can seperate and repot? Or would it best to clip off the weakest and leave one per cell and repot. I am using the 72 cell for the 1020 tray __________________ Zone 8 Mobile AL

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Stvrob Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Jacksonville, FL Posts: 1,413	Do whatever suits your needs. They are not difficult to separate, but if you have what you need, and seed is cheap, go ahead and clip them. Pretty sure you don't need to feel guilty.