David, I've always planted mine rather deep - especially the leggy ones - and have never had a problem. I think the mojority of opinions you get will relay the same info. Good Luck, Eric At 09:21 AM 5/13/99 -0400, David Hammond wrote: <snip> >How deep should young chiles be transplanted? One option is they can be >planted deep, like tomatoes, and will sprout roots along the buried stem. >The conflicting option: If buried deep, they stems will NOT sprout roots, >but instead, develop fungus and rot.