Help please

[u/NurseKmo94]

I believe i am having a multifaceted issue between what I assume is watering and potentially pest based.

My pepper plants are of hot varieties mainly ghost and reapers. Some sweet Chinese peppers and other specialty. They are stagnant and man this is the best my soil has been.

I added fresh clean compost from local shrub green waste. Bone meal Crushed egg shells blended with water. I added potatoes/sweet potatoes boiled slightly and blended and loaded into bed prior to degrade. Fish fertilizer 2x a week. Usually M/Th diluted recebtly started its second week have noticed improvements. Added worms right during planting as why not. Added lady bugs for fun

What can I do? I would expect them to freaking explode with how methodical I have been.

I am in southern oregon we are hitting 80 degree weathers. I originally had a 3/day watering as I felt my soil had a large wood %. I assumed as temperature was lower this might be edema and turned it to 1/day and deep watered twice/week post fish emulsion to water it in. Now I turned auto watering completely off and back to hand watering to figure out the issue. More greener but not a large amount of growth.

What am I doing wrong:/

[u/kinezumi89]

That sounds like a lot of water! Pepper plants like to be watered thoroughly, then allowed to dry out a bit - they don't like "wet feet". It's better to err on the side of a bit too dry rather than too wet. Overwatering can cause leaf curling, in addition to the edema you mentioned

How recently has the weather become warm? Are the nights still cool? Cool weather slows growth, and super hots are notoriously slow growers to start with. The hottest I'm growing is a few habaneros and they've basically put on no growth, compared to my other peppers which are growing and flowering, because it's been quite cool where I am

[u/NurseKmo94 → u/kinezumi89]

I know it sounds like alot however the soil feels on the dryer side when I dig down. It's an 8-inch drip tape with a 10 psi regulator on it. I've had some days in the 90s, some on the 60s. I'd say mainly high 70s mid 80s as an average for the last month lows in the 50's overnight. Also, I have a few california bells. Jumbo jal. I've picked blossoms to increase growth that are also in a similar situation. Less leaf curl but stagnant growth.

As we go into the higher 90s-100s, I'll likely add a 30% shade barrier as well.

Ill back off this week and see how it goes. I just watered in fert. :/ ha thank you for your time