Help with pepper up-potting

[copperrein]

Whoop!

Just what the title says: this is where I kill my peppers. I've got habs, lemon drops, reapers, hatch peppers, as well as the standard cooking pepper spread.

How do I up-pot out of their starter nursery flat into individual pots without damping off?

Thank you for any tips/tricks/epiphanies

 

[013]

It’s tied to fungus or mold...... emphasis on sterilization...... nuking your seedling trays, baking the soil or cooking it on the stove top in a cast iron skillet and even watering with 10% H202. I‘m not much help here Copperrein but I know you will bulldog this issue and thrash it like a rag doll until you get perfect compliance

 

[copperrein]

It’s tied to fungus or mold...... emphasis on sterilization...... nuking your seedling trays, baking the soil or cooking it on the stove top in a cast iron skillet and even watering with 10% H202. I‘m not much help here Copperrein but I know you will bulldog this issue and thrash it like a rag doll until you get perfect compliance

I wish I could be that epic in the garden

Thank you for the suggestion...I still default to expecting bagged soil to be sterile. It is not.

 

[Joe Brewster]

Try adding more aeration in your soil, don't over water , (Peppers don't have a big root system) keep in the hot sun, cinnamon is a natural fungicide
might find something in this thread

https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/a-good-old-fashioned-redhotchilipepper-grow-off.442810/

 

[SmokingWings]

Can't say as I remember getting Damping Off on transplants, pepper or otherwise.

But if it is Damping Off maybe a gentle breeze from a fan blowing over the plants and allowing the soil surface to dry out frequently.