So some of my early peppers i want to now bush out a bit so have lopped off the tops to encourage further growth down lower. I have placed the tops in water to encourage rooting and after a couple of days they still seem to be doing okay. Will this work ? Does anyone do this ?

It will! Provided the tops were still relatively "green" and not woody, it should take.

Thanks [mention]Rockoe10[/mention] . They are still looking good so i shall persevere, should be a nice quick way to multiple the plants out.

I love propagating by cuttings, its my favorite. I find changing the water often helps a great deal. Especially with those hard to root plants.

That is cool, I didn't know it could be done with peppers.

I have done this with peppers before, putting them in my hydroponics to root them, and almost every one of them rooted. They rooted better when I used a knife to lightly scar the stems - same thing that helps when I do this with basil cuttings.

Yup roots are coming through good. Key tip is make sure the node is under water, this is where the roots sprout from.

Some peppers with tops lopped to show bushy growth come through and one that has not been lopped