The plants aren't dying, but I'm not sure how fast they're supposed to be growing. If you look at the top right picture, you'll see a blossom where the petals fell off. I assumed that's the bottom of a developing pepper, but it's been like that for the past couple of days. I'm not sure how fast peppers are supposed to develop after the blossom's petals fall off.

MORE INFO: I have three of these bell peppers (California Wonder?) in containers on my windowsill. I started them probably sometime in May. They're about 1ft.+5in. tall now. Last week, with the exception of the one that I "topped",

It's pretty hot here in NYC now. I water them everyday in the morning around 9AM, but I water them again at 8PM because the soil appears to be dry by night.

As for fertilizer, I mixed some azomite into their soil when I originally transplanted them into their containers and I gave them a very low dose of MaxiGro (NPK 10-5-14 according to the package) more than a month ago. So it's been straight water every day since.

And as for the soil, it's a mixture of MiracleGro's moisture control, some generic brand of potting soil called GreenThumb, some perlite, some vermiculite, and strangely enough, some sand.

They look pretty healthy right now, but I predict that will change if you don't transplant them into a larger pot. Do you have nowhere outdoors that you can keep them? Peppers like lots of sun and heat, probably more than you can get from a window sill.

As for your question about the peppers themselves, they take weeks to develop from flowers into peppers. I'm wondering if they need bees to pollinate, though.

If so, wrap those pots up with duct tape and get them outside and start hardening off, then transplant to a muck bigger container. The yellow spots could be from overwatering, but could also be a Magnesium deficiency. Are there MICROnutrients in that fertilizer?

Plants look great otherwise. They just need to get outside. Google hardening off if you don't know how.

Stop watering everyday from here on out. Peppers like to dry out between waterings. A good way to tell if they need water is to stick a wooden skewer a few inches deep into the soil. If soil comes out on the skewer, don't water. If no soil, water thoroughly. Let dry out completely before watering again.

Kevin