Hows your peppers doing?

Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:23 pm

Mine are not going anywhere. Several variety's all still very small. I started them with my first round of tomatoes. They are only 6 - 8 inches tall. Its been a weird year for certain crops.

Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:37 pm

Finally picking up. It seems like they sat there for weeks, before they started doing anything. They're just now starting to show pepper growth in the very center.

Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:51 pm

My plants are gorgeous, but the peppers are just coming off in a trickle. I think that cooler than normal temperatures, especially at night, are slowing down production.

Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:14 pm

My hot pepper plants are about a foot and a half tall....the bell p eppers are barely a foot tall. They're not growing at all. Hot peppers have a good deal of fruit & flowers. The bells just one each. I think one has 2. Dunno what's up w/ them.

Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:20 pm

70% of mine are doing nicely. The rest of them are about a foot tall with small peppers, and their leaves are turning yellow. I'm thinking it's a soil issue with them.

Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:04 pm

Once I got on a regular watering schedule they r doing great. I'm even getting orange and red.

Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:06 pm

It seems like each of my pepper plants are doing different.

I actually just harvested two sweet-yellow peppers off of my plant on Thurs, and the early-red bell peppers are finally starting to bud. That plant has two small little peppers.

Jalapeno plant is also budding, probably about a half-inch long tiny little green peppers.

Italian roasters are coming along slow, lots of flowers. Hope it starts budding this week.

Regardless - all of the foliage on all of the plants looks great! It's been a warm spring/early summer here. Lots of sun.

Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:08 pm

Most of mine are in pots. My 2 year old Serrano is going crazy and has ton of peppers. The bulgarian carrot is putting out a few peppers now. The others are flowering but a little short I wish they were taller. I got my plants in the pots and ground a little late and they were probably stunted a little cause they stayed in their starter pots a little too long. I am having issues in my garden too. My melons are not going as good as I'd like and same with the tomatoes.

Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:41 pm

My ghost, habaneros and cayenne peppers are doing great. Producing plenty of peppers... so much in fact I don't know what to do with. The ghost peppers (2 plants) are about 5 feet tall and trying to grow taller... the habs (2 plants) are about 3.5-4 feet tall, the cayenne (1 plant) is about 2 feet or so.

My jalapeno and newly planted cajun bell (1 plant each) aren't doing as well, they're still small plants and I'll start pinching off the fruits to see if they'll start growing ;3

Mon Jun 18, 2012 1:26 am

Well Im glad to see I'm not the only one with problems. Though I'm not happy others are having problems. Maybe they will all of the sudden turn on for us. kind of like somene flipped the switch today for the jap beetle to come on.

Good luck everyone. :mrgreen:

Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:31 am

I think Alabama weather gets more credit than I do, planted starts this year as I let all my seeds freeze....
But I put in 2 plants each of anaheims, mild jalapeÃƒÂ±os, and regular bells,
They are all doing very well... Hip high and putting off lots lots of peppers.
Can't get a ripe tomato to save my life but picking half a dozen peppers per plant each week. Roasting & chopping anaheims for cooking with.

still say the weather gets all the credit though!

Mon Jun 18, 2012 3:33 am

I have had my share of problems a freeze 3 weeks ago and pill bugs killing my tomatoes eating around the base of my tomatoes like a cut worm but bad enough to kill a bunch of them before I relized what was doing it...but the peppers are doing great

Mon Jun 18, 2012 1:52 pm

I'm right there with all of you. My Jalapenos are varying in size, but are putting on fruit and some fruit looks like it will be harvested in a couple of weeks. Some of my bigger bell pepper plants still haven't put out fruit. I have 18 plants of like 4-5 varieties and they are all varying in size and production, but they all look healthy.

Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:00 pm

Some years my bell pepper plants just seem to sit, looking pretty but not maturing much fruit, until cooler weather of the fall sets in. This year mine are doing much better than that. But still there are no more than one or two full sized bells on any one plant. Because of low production and slow maturity, we keep harvesting green ones, and at this rate will be lucky to get in ripe red or yellow peppers. And while our jalapenos have been staying ahead of our needs, they are not producing nearly as much as last year. Don't know if we planted less jalapenos this year or not, but seems like about the same number of plants. Perhaps a couple of the larger fruited varieties are just not as productive as the smaller fruited varieties.

Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:47 pm

This seems to be a slow year for peppers for me, not sure why. Usually my pepper plants would be much bigger by now. Partly a bad attack of slugs early on, nearly destroyed a number of them. I have been treating with diatomaceous earth pretty regularly now and they are doing better. I don't know if it is just that.

My back garden gets shadier every year. I have GOT to take down a few more trees, but that's a big job and hard to have time for.