On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 23:37:24 GMT, DigitalVinyl
wrote:

Frogleg wrote:

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:43:59 GMT, DigitalVinyl
wrote:

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!

You bought a Thai dragon and 2 jalapenos, and all three are producing
tiny Cayenne peppers? I don't understand.

SOrry, poor sentence structure. I went to go for a few jalapeno and a
few cayenne for dinner. I spotted all these miniscule bright red
cayennes and pulled them off. The minisule cayennes were all on the
lowest parts of the plant. The upper part has more normal sized 3 inch
cayennes.

SInce only the lower ones seem dwarfed it is not a variety/seed issue.
Although the cayennes I grew last year produced some 5-6 inch curled
cayennes. Nothing that size here--THAT I would expect is related to
the variety.

The jalapenos were also quite dwarfed, though none had reddened yet. I
was yanking 1 inch long jalapenos with those little cracks in the
skin, something I usually only see when they are ready to be picked.

Sorry. Then I have no explanation. 'Mislabeled plant' was the only
possibility I could come up with, as I was thinking I'd forgotten to
plant some pequin seeds, and those are tiny peppers indeed.

If the later Cayennes seem normal, it would appear that whatever was
bothering them has been overcome. Maybe the japapenos will cheer up
soon, too? The only gardening problem I've had this year was a puny
basil in a pot. I heard it complaining about being in the low-rent
district, and put it in a much bigger pot, where it settled in quite
nicely.