Grafting peppers

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zendog
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Grafting peppers

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Post: # 1153Unread post zendog
Sun Dec 15, 2019 3:27 pm

I'm curious if any folks here have experience grafting peppers. I've seen several videos on YouTube of people grafting fairly thick/mature cuttings onto branches of mature pepper plants, but I was thinking more along the lines of grafting onto seedling sized plants.

Specifically, I was thinking of starting some pepper seedlings around Jan. 1, then pinching out the the tops when they're about 4 inches tall to get 2 new shoots and then, a few weeks after that, grafting a second variety onto one of those shoots. So basically I'd have a pepper plant ready to plant out in April/May with 2 varieties per plant. I was thinking I would use the little 2mm silicon clips I have for grafting tomatoes onto rootstocks. Anyone do anything like this or do any grafting of smaller pepper stock?

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Post: # 1608Unread post Shule
Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:06 am

Haven't tried it, yet. The closest I've come to that was thinking about grafting watermelon seedlings onto pumpkins, or something. I've read about such anyway. Aren't you supposed to do a slanted cut on the stem?
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Re: Grafting peppers

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Post: # 1666Unread post Nan6b
Tue Dec 17, 2019 9:43 am

Yes, to get as much surface area connection as possible.

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