Hot Pepper plant stunted growth??

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Posted by stever17 none (My Page) on

Wed, Jul 16, 14 at 20:28

I have two varieties of hot pepper plants in my garden (yellow cayenne and Anaheim chile) along with bell pepper plants. I cannot distinguish them at this point but all plants appear to be doing pretty well and have produced these cluster of small peppers as you can see in the pictures, however, these clusters seemed to have stopped growing. It's probably been about 2 weeks and they haven't grown at all...any suggestions? They are next to eggplants and tomatoes, the tomatoes have done very well producing fruit and the eggplant was slow out of the gate but seems to be doing well now.

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Posted by woohooman San Diego CA 10a (My Page) on
Wed, Jul 16, 14 at 20:37

Where did you get your seeds/plants? Those pods don't look like either you mentioned.

Kevin

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Posted by stever17 none (My Page) on
Wed, Jul 16, 14 at 21:22

Burpee...planted from seed.

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Posted by woohooman San Diego CA 10a (My Page) on
Wed, Jul 16, 14 at 22:15

Don't know. Maybe an odd seed got mixed in.

Can you take a close up pic of just the pods?

Kevin

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Posted by HotHabaneroLady 7a Central MD (My Page) on
Thu, Jul 17, 14 at 8:25

How are the temperatures there? If it gets too hot (or too cold, but that seems unlikely) the pod growth may slow. In that case, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

But I completely agree that the pods are obviously not cayenne (long, thin, almost strongly pods) or Anaheims (shorter, stubbier, pointy at the end). Burpee does sell some round peppers. I don't remember for sure, but I think they are all sweet peppers. This looks more like one of those peppers maybe.

Angie

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Posted by stever17 none (My Page) on
Thu, Jul 17, 14 at 8:42

Thanks for your help. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens. What is a little odd is that i planted 3 different varieties, cayenne, anaheim, and bell but all of my pepper plants have produced those small clusters that look identical. I did notice that one of the clusters has turned almost black in color (same small size) but similar to the color of an eggplant.

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Posted by stever17 none (My Page) on
Thu, Jul 17, 14 at 8:45

And i forgot to mention, i tasted one of the small clusters and it was HOT! so definitely not a sweet pepper. No clue what is going on in that garden!

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Posted by djkj 9b (My Page) on
Thu, Jul 17, 14 at 13:26

Those leaves look very large and the fruits are stunted. Make sure the plants are channelizing the energy correctly to produce peppers, not foliage. See the video guide link.

Here is a link that might be useful: Growing peppers in your garden

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Posted by stever17 none (My Page) on
Thu, Jul 17, 14 at 18:43

My neighbor seems to think they are just all weeds, is that possible? That would be a big disappointment but perhaps explains why they look nothing like the peppers I planted. Could weeds grown fruit clusters like that? The stems of these plants have that black streak just like pepper plants. Thanks for your help!

Steve

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Posted by jean001a 7 Portland OR (My Page) on
Thu, Jul 17, 14 at 20:07

Looking at the fruits, my 1st thot was solanum -- ie, weeds.
Strange that you'd get the same thing from 3 different seed packages.

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Posted by AiliDeSpain 6a - Utah (My Page) on
Fri, Jul 18, 14 at 0:21

Did you start them indoors or direct sow?

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