I had saved one pepper plant from 2007 garden to find out if it can be raised as perenial.Stem was long enough having few nodes.So I considered to use these nodes to root by air layering.Each node was enclosed in potting soil contained in plastc cups at three points on the stem some time in Oct.-07. Soil in the cups were kept wet by adding little water as neede.These cups were removed this week by cutting off the stem to see if rooting has taken place.To my surprise all the cuttings in the cups had good roots.Out of three cuttings two are potted in the pots and one in the garden soil.

Here are some pics. from this experiment.

Mother plant.

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Mother plant with rooted cutting removed.

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Rooted cuttings in the pots.

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Plant and the cuttings have flowers and hopefully they will bear the fruits. Plnat did have the fruits once before in the winter as seen in the pic.In this case we can have fruit bearing matured plants by this process and cut down the time required to raise the new plants every season.Mass production of rooted cuttings is also possible as I could get three nicely rooted cuttings from one plant.