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, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
2nd year gardener
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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.

If these are nursery plants, one possible explanation for smaller
peppers than you expect of whatever variety could be that they were
mislabeled. Even seeds can get mixed up, and peppers come in an
enormous range of sizes.

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.
However I couldn't find a nice sized jalapeno on either bush.
Something definitely stunted the plants. I'm hoping the jalapenos will
start producing fuller sized peppers now. I like to stuff mine.

If these are nursery plants, one possible explanation for smaller
peppers than you expect of whatever variety could be that they were
mislabeled. Even seeds can get mixed up, and peppers come in an
enormous range of sizes.

DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
2nd year gardener
http://members.aol.com/DigitalVinyl66/Garden2004.html

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.

Oh, my goodness, I misread "peppers" and thought that you were talking about
Cereus-validus's need for "super-sized" Viagra!

John

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

LOL!!!

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Oh, my goodness, I misread "peppers" and thought that you were talking
about
Cereus-validus's need for "super-sized" Viagra!

John

"Frogleg" wrote in message
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On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 23:37:24 GMT, DigitalVinyl
wrote:

if your brassicas are doing well in the same soil, it could be a PH problem. peppers (like tomatoes) need lots of water and Potassium (potash), high potash will will make brassicas bolt and seed very quickly. keep them seperate next time, and feed them weekly with high potash feed, they don`t need ALOT of water, but the watering must remain constant in regularity, that part is critical for good size fruit(s).
grow them in the same place and in the same way you`de grow Tomatoes, they can even share the same growbag!
they`re both of the nightshade family and alot closer rellated than a Potatoe is to the same genus.
regular water, high potash and a lower PH. and don`t start feeding them until the fruits set