[cabbagehead]

I've grown peppers for some years usually with a good success. This year for some strange reason all the sweet peppers are much better than peivious years. However, ALL the hot chilli peppers are well behind. Some havn't even flowered or look like flowering. All grown in same greenhouse, watered, feed.......ect., at the same time. Never come across this before.

How are yours doing?

[Lardman]

My chillis are well behind this year. Im just about getting flowers on the rocoto but the nagas are at best 8" and theres not a flower in sight.

I don't the the luxury of a greenhouse, but even in the last couple of years when things have been really damp and cold I've had peppers to pick this time of year. I'll be luck ti pick anything before the frost at his rate. 

[Faz]

Mine were put in a bit later than usual but they have caught up now and all 5 types are flowering and starting to fruit too.

They are in a greenhouse which has probably helped prevent them getting too cold in the recent bad weather.

[Kate and her Ducks]

Never done peppers before so nothing to compare to but mine are only just starting to set fruit and not all of them.

[FCG]

Mine are gigantic! Pushing 2 foot high and they are a mass of flowers. F1 varieties however as my sole Naga chilli that survived is only 2/3 inches high and has 3 flowers. I'll be able to make so many chilli dishes i pity my tongue...

[Janeymiddlewife]

Have had some small peppers - tried 2 chillis about 2 inches long, indertiminate variety (green) but they were bitter and not very hot 

[hamstergbert]

Mine are well behind - first flowers only showed up in the last week or so.

First sowing this year - nothing doing so after waiting about double the decent interval bunged in another lot.  Thanks to the big feller's robust sense of humour both sowings then showed up more or less the same time.  Given up trying to work out why - temperature wasn't that different. 

Having to buy the d*mned things!

[tam]

My chilli's are going red atm. Had loads of baby sweet peppers (red, orange & chocolate) and sweet banana peppers already. The former are just producing a second set of flowers so hopefully time for a second crop before it gets cold, the later we're already eating the second crop. My normal sized bell peppers are giant but still green. I should think they'll start turning colour in the next week or two.

[FCG]

Tam, Sweet Banana Peppers? Do they taste of Banana?

[tam]

Tam, Sweet Banana Peppers? Do they taste of Banana?

Unfortunately not  They do start yellowy instead of green though so I suppose if you squint it's a bit like a bush full of hanging bananas.

[FCG]

I guess any monkey eating those bananas would be in for a terrible, terrible surprise

Was thinking about lemon drop style, must find some of those for next year.

When did everyone else plant theirs?

[janiejakemum]

I wondered when is best to plant too, this is my first effort at peppers ive had a go at chillis before, some are doing better than others but nothings ready yet.  I was very late planting mine as we didnt have a greenhouse then when we built it i got in loads, im hoping next year to basically fill my greenhouse with chillis and peppers.

I have the banana chillis too - none on it yet though.

[abraidwood]

I started mine under lights indoors in Feb, so had a good head start, I have a cayenne and pepperoncini indoors but the rest went out in 7-10litre pots at the beginning of June.

The indoor ones started turning red this weekend.  Of the outdoor ones, the cayenne types have more than 10 fullsized green pods each & are 18-24" tall, the scotch bonnets are a little shorter (15-18") and have fewer smaller pods, and the rocotos are short (12-15") and sprawly (24"+ wide).  The first rocoto pod only set last week so they've a long way to go.

They were all growing like crazy in June, but they've not liked the cold, wet weather through July.. bring on August and some sunshine!!!

Oh & the best time to plant depends on if you have room to overwinter them - probably July/August is a little late, but if you have lights (and space indoors!) then starting in the middle of winter is fine

[Trillium]

I think the expression for mine is naff. Normally they do very well, bumper crops even. This year they're barely growing due to the long cold spring and summer so far. They need heat and light, neither of which we've had much of. So far I have one teeny pepper and no flowers, just lots of very short pathetic plants. 
Seems I'm not the only one having veg problems around here. Poor weather affects us all.

[Brassica Blaz]

hi, ive had ago at growing chillis this year ,only 1 plant though , i had one space left in my grow bag its only 12 inches tall ,it flowered a couple of weeks ago it now has lots of little green chillis on it!! it dosn't get any sun till about 1 ish and its outdoors!!