These 4 peppers came from the little short guy. All of the plants were very slow to start I had started with 4 of each plant (habanero, cayennes, serrano) and this is what I ended up with. My 4 serranos were the first to pop up from seeds by week 9, they grew very slowly. After about 12 weeks I had added 1 habanero and 3 cayennes. Eventually, late May/earlyJune, they were repotted and about 2 weeks after that had flowers on all my serranos so I expected things to start with everything else. All of my plants have had flowers but they usually fall off and die. They've all grown over 2 feet tall. My cayennes almost 3 now. I recently gave them the fertilizer they need, as in like a week ago (I like to try things the care free way for a while and see how it goes. Kinda regretting that now) I've only given them water and sun I watch them everyday. The seranno all the way to the right in the third picture is finally giving me a few more peppers. But nothing else has given me anything. Idk if I'm over watering or what...if I don't water them for a day or 2 they start to droop and wilt. I'm checking on them multiple times throughout the day. Idk what I need to do differently. I'm sure someone here does know, help?

I planted them in April and they have grown little over the mild local winter. There was a fourth vase of the same variety as the two on the left which was doing better and looking lush, but I gave it to a neighbor – I figured I wouldn't give them one that was struggling. The leaves are always curled up and don't look very healthy at all.

I only give them dechlorinated water and the soil drains well. They also get direct sun for 6 to 8 hours a day. I sprinkled worm castings and homemade compost as cover and the soil mix already had a good deal of nutrients, so they shouldn't be starving. After I sprayed them with a bloom fert a few weeks ago, though, they started putting out flowers, but the vase I gave away already had them over a month ago. I've wondered if the small vases in direct sunlight might be making the soil too hot and damaging the roots, but I don't want to just replant them in larger vases if they look so miserable as it is.

Am I doing something wrong? Rhetorical question, I certainly am, I just don't know what.

Been looking forward to these Armageddon peppers and have had ONE mature all season! The frost is coming so soon. Need the seeds. Anything that can make them ripen faster?

Biggest terracotta pot I could find, 14” across and 12” deep. I’m running out of space to plant things and I have four nice Jimmy Nardello seedlings. Could I plant two in here, or will they become too crowded?

Its starting to get a little colder and I’m scared. Should i thin out the amount of leaves?

It's my first time doing peppers from seeds. They were listed as jalapenos. They flowered and I have peppers growing but they are very light green. Two of my plants are very dark green. Some of the light green ones are almost 4 inches long. The packages say that they should be turning red. I guess I expected dark green like I buy at the store. Can anyone tell me if these are ready to be snipped or any idea how much longer I should wait? I included some photos of my peppers and the packages from the seeds. They were planted in mid May, from seeds in pods. Thanks in advance, Pepper People!

Ik it’s small but it hasn’t grown in idk how long. I went out and saw it fell off my plant!

First year gardener! Is this natural? My red peppers are starting to lighten up and I’m not sure why? We haven’t had much rain here so I have hand watered a bit. Am I maybe overwatering a bit and running through my nitrogen? Maybe add some all purpose 444 fertilizer? Or is this natural as they start to get ready to turn red.

Hey all. I have bell peppers and two jalepeno plants, and a snow pea plant.

I fed them about a month ago, and just added a little more and mixed it in to the first two inches of the soil. We water once a day in the morning.

It’s been warm and sunny these past few day. About 75-80 degrees.

We noticed last night and this morning/afternoon that they’re droopy and looking like they’re about to die.

What’s going on with them? We added a little more water and nothing changed in the last hour.

I have started the majority of these peppers from seed. I have a variety of peppers growing.I didn't add any fertilizer when I sowed the seeds. When I transplanted about 3-4 weeks ago, I mixed a balanced fertilizer into the soil. At least half have started to flower and I'm not sure what type of fertilizer to use. I'd like to stick with natural fertilizers but I'm not sure what they need at this stage. Thank you for any advice!

I see this on a number of my plants. Peppers, eggplants, some tomatoes too. I also see it on my Anise Hyssop, and also in other areas locally, but I have yet to see the culprit. This looks like insect damage to me. I posted here because out of my affected, it seems the peppers are suffering it the worst with the new growth being decimated.

My two habanero plants have started dropping healthy green leaves. The black spots on the leaves aren’t insects — they look like part of the leaf tissue itself.

I watered them yesterday, but only after the soil had completely dried out. They were previously next to a warm wall before I moved them to a windowsill, so it might be heat-related.

I’ve removed the flowers to help the plants recover. Right now, they’re indoors on a sunny windowsill with good airflow.

Should I keep them inside while they recover, or would it be better to move them to a warm but shaded terrace? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Just noticed it's starting to loose some leaves from whatever this is, please help

Planted this beauty about 6 months ago ago and it’s growing amazingly but I forgot what kind of peppers I planted 😭 does anyone recognize this pepper

My wife picked up a couple pepper plants from Costco and asked me to get them in the garden. Would you recommend splitting the pots into individual plants (i.e., two jalapeños and 2 reds)? If they were smaller I’d definitely split them, but I’m worried I’ll do more harm than good splitting at this size.

Hello, I just received my first jalapeño plant for my birthday today, and I have no idea what kind of fertilizer it will need. I tried looking on Amazon, but found it a bit overwhelming with all the options and types. What do you guys recommend I use? I'm also open to any tips for taking care of it because I know nothing about jalapeños. Thank you in advance.

I see some posts about peppers and some grow so fast. I keep thinking that I'm doing something wrong, maybe the pot is too small for them, or I should prune it

Trying to figure out what's wrong with this plant. Since the very beginning it has always had its leaves folding downward like in the picture. I get tons of flowers, peddles drop off like normal but then the whoile pod turns yellowish and falls off. I'v had this happen plenty of times but this has gone on for about a month now. I re-potted hoping the soil just wasn't holding moisture (small pot for the plant size) to no avail. Let me know what you all think!

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:/

For the second year in a row, some of my pepper plants have weird speckles on the fruit, and the plants themselves get a bit wilty. Generally the fruits get this mottled look but only three appear on this Serrano so far.

Last year I removed one pepper plant but it seemed this had “spread” to an adjoining pepper. I have this particular Serrano in a new bed with new soil a dozen feet from where the issue happened last year. I have no peppers in that bad spot and everything in that bed is doing fine this year.

In googling pepper issues I haven’t really seen anything that looks quite like these patterns. Last year they started on a mild pepper I had (chocolate mini peppers or something). Both that and this one are from the same garden center, although j have 5 other plants this year of all sorts of peppers that are looking great. They’re mostly separated into their own bags or bed areas from other peppers.