My son brought it home around June 1st. It had already been sitting in his class in a plastic cup for a few weeks. After a week of bringing it home I noticed it hadn't grown at all and there were little worms in the bottom of the clear cup.
When I removed it from the soil it has no roots, just one little tiny one left. Root rot and fungus nats were sucking the life from this little baby plant. I resoiled it and added some drain holes, thinking it will surely die because there were no roots.
It was basically a baby pepper plant stick, sticking out of the ground with no roots.
I was just waiting for it to go limp, I had no hope for it but it was my son's class project and I was determined to not let it die.
It took another week or two and than the opposite happened, it grew!
I had to put it in a bigger pot a week ago cuz it outgrew the cup. The soil has settled and was revealing the top layer of roots and lots of them. So I added more soil and trimmed the leaves that were now touching the spoil. Let's see how the plant grows now. For what it is, it looks healthy, it's just maybe a month behind the rest of the pepper plants y'all got because it has been through hell in its early stages
by Jerseybandit