Oh, here's a little more info. The peppers probably get around 6 hours of sun a day. As for the temperatures, we haven't hit 90 yet this June (thank goodness), and we haven't been below 55 in about a week. I have 3 tomato plants too, and each has at least 1 tomato on it. I also have bush beans, and they've been bearing prolifically.

I think patience is key. I dont live in Georgia, and would expect you to be a little further ahead, but peppers are slow growers.

My peppers have been out since mid May and all have bloomed and are forming peppers, but the largest one is maybe 1/2" diameter. If your plants are not making blooms - then you have a problem. I have had much better luck with smaller peppers (Anaheims & hot peppers) than with big bells.

Yes let them ripen on the plants. If you want red or yellow peppers, dont pick them green (it does depend on the type of pepper you are growing)

I just have one Bell Pepper plant growing, been growing since mid April, is over 4' tall and I have harvested 8 peppers from it in the past 2 weeks or so, there are 6 more fully ripe ones (Orange Bell)on it right now that I think I am going to harvest tomorrow, and there are at least 28-30 more on it of various sizes plus many more flowers that appear as though most of them are going to set fruit.

This has been by far the best Bell Pepper plant I have ever grown, most of mine usually get about 3' tall and then I get maybe 2-4 small peppers and then the plant dies somehow.
Last year a Deer ate it down to the roots.

I will get more Bell Peppers from this one plant than I have in all my other plants through the years all combined.
I always have really good luck with hot peppers like Jalapeno's, plants do well and produce mass quantities.
But with Bell Peppers this has been my first really nice plant. Think I am going to save some seeds from it.

I think the main reason for this plant to be doing so well this year is largely because we have had unusually good weather for several months.

One thing about this particular plant I have noticed is the leaves are gigantic, I could use one as a hat.

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I think you probably identified the problem in your second post - "6 hours of sun" is probably not going to give you very much production from your plants. By comparison, I planted six plants on 14 March and started having enough to put in the freezer the first week of May. My plants received full sun all day until the pole beans started shading them a little in the afternoon in late May.

You may get some production yet from your plants since the days are getting longer, but it may soon get too hot for the plants to set fruit.

You might look around for a place with more sun and try to set out some more plants for fall harvest (probably need to set out plants between 7-1 & 8-1).

Thanks for your helpful responses, mandolls, Nunyabiz1, and txtom50.

OK, I dug up one of my pepper plants, which has no blooms and is nearly 2 feet tall, and transplanted it near our pond. It should now get at least 12 hours of sun a day. If that doesn't work, then, Houston, we've got a problem. ;)

Also, what are the days to maturity for your plant? I was obsessing about two of mine that only had tiny peppers (while I was already harvesting bells, anaheims, and jalape�os). I came in and looked at the seed package and realized that the ones with the itty bitty ones took an estimated 120 days to maturity while the ones that were bearing were in the neighborhood of 60-70 days.

Here is a link that might be useful: Adventures in Agriburbia

After transplant shock you should get good crop.
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Neptune24,
One thing I read from your post is that you are counting fruits, one pepper, one tomato, etc. In my opinion, all these fruit vegetables such as peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, if the condition is right, namely good sun, good soil, good spacing and enough watering, then you normally cann't count the fruits, I mean usually there would be so many of them that you don't even bother to count.

coralb:

I'm not sure what the number of days to maturity is, because I bought the plants and didn't start from seed.

jolj:

Yes, hopefully I'll get a good crop after the transplant shock. Your peppers look great!

homegro:

Yes, you made an excellent point. I do get a lot bush beans, however. Anyway, I think I need to test my soil and also measure the number of hours of sunlight in my garden. I did a Google search and found these products:

1) Rapitest Soil Test Kit, Model 1601
2) Suncalc Sunlight Calculator

Would these be a good bet? Anybody know?

I never did soil test, nor calculate sunlight. To me gardening is more an art than science. This is not to dismiss science. We use science to some point, for example, 10 hours vs 11 hours of sun, Ph level 6 vs 6.5, will there be "significant differences" between them? I doubt it. Also, is your soil defficient on some elments? In a typical home garden, normally this doesn't happen, therefore, I would do a soil test only when I see some strange happening to my plants. But this never happened on the various gardens I have had. My points is there are many other things that would make more significant differences for your gardening results than getting those tests done, but anyway if you are curious about those tests, then go for it. It wouldn't hurt.

OK, thanks, homegro. I suspect the majority of the problems I've been having can be traced to insufficient sunlight.

I think you should just sit tight, be patient. Peppers are slow starters, and I do not believe it gets too hot where you or I live to produce a good crop of peppers. I have grown them successfully for the prior 7 years.

I plant mine about mid May, and they don't really even begin growing until July. Takes them a while to start, and mine don't produce anything until late summer.

Mine have grown from about 6" tall to 10" tall from mid May to mid June. I predict they will be 2' tall by mid August, and will be loaded with peppers, mostly green.

By mid September, I will have red, yellow, orange, lilac, purple, and brown peppers, barring disaster, and the plants will be about 2 1/2' tall when the fall freeze hits here.

Thanks for the helpful info, tdscpa. I only transplanted one of my peppers, and left the other two where they were. I'll just chill and see what happens. :) I ordered a sunlight meter too, and it will be interesting to see what it shows.

This year, I hope to dig up a pepper plant in the fall too and pot it. Last year, I was a couple of days too late and the frost had already done its damage. :(