Had pretty good success with rooting tomato branches or suckers a few inches long. My banana pepper plant had 2 branches knocked off by squirrels (your favorite pets Marcella).
Anyway i had those branches in water for over a month and nothing—not even a tiny root shoot but they did good in the water. I have one now out back in a container of water well over a month — lo and behold I’m getting a pepper growing and some buds but no root shoots. Go figure.....
“lo and behold I’m getting a pepper growing and some buds but no root shoots. Go figure..”
That is extraordinary. I will grow banana peppers next spring, will put the seeds under a grow lamp inside for 8 weeks. I couldn’t believe all the pepper plant instructions for seed was to start them inside 8 to 10 weeks before planting outside.