After my seedling disasters this year I had to buy pepper plants from nurseries. I got a Thai dragon and two Jalapenos. All three started producing the tiniest peppers. I just yanked ten RED cayennes. The biggest one was about the size of the nail on my thumb! 1/2 an inch long. The Jalapenos are also producing very small peppers. I harvested
5 last night that amounted to about 1.5 normal sized ones. I have a good 2 dozen jalapenos on the lower branches but I did not see a single good sized one. Everything in that bed is going like gangbusters. Broccoli, Cauliflower, tomaotes, cucumber. The green beans and kidney beans are new this year--and I think they are overshadowed a bit by the taller plants still. I'm going to cut back some of the brocolli leaves that might be shadowing the lower half of the plant. They did grow plarger than I expected.Any other guess why the diminutive peppers? I don't think I'm short of fertilizer. I worked a mix of fertilizers, compost, greensand, peat, manure into the bed down to 15 inches deep.
DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY,