are there any pictures? most peppers need lots of calcuim and phosphorus to produce flowers. it will take a little bit once given to the peppers but they will start producing flowers. maybe not peppers due to the heat but flowers.

No pix. They just look like normal pepper plants. The Corno's had sun scald on the peppers, I believe. But even the unscalded ones (ones without brown spots on them) are tough, like cardboard, and the peppers are small and thin. I'm not sure they're really Cornos. I bought the seedlings from a plant guy who sells a variety of seedlings each year.

I gave the Romanian Sweets some liquid fertilizer with phosphorus yesterday. I don't know how to get calcium to the plants if that's what they're missing. Maybe it was just too hot for them to produce blooms? Maybe they need some shade? My lipstick is in the same boat - healthy plant, but no blooms.

We'll see. I just want good peppers! Next year I will know to start my own from a reliable seed source and grow an ample supply of seedlings.

Unless you're in the mountains, NC just went through a couple weeks of hellish weather...including a week of desert South-West weather. A lot of blossom drop and unfertilized blooms...

Peppers aren't too happy about setting fruit after bloom once it gets into the mid-90s+.

Things pick up again in Sept for Sept/Oct/Nov harvests in most of NC.

I understand about the deathly heat (it's killing ME as well!), but shouldn't the peppers be blooming and then dropping their blossoms? Mine have no blossoms, that's my question.

Also, would the heat cause Corno di Toros to be tough, like cardboard, and small, like stunted or miniature? Or is that something else completely? My other peppers are few and far between, but TASTY for the few I got.

I will also scrounge around at the farmer's market for some interesting peppers...

Since they're in containers, I may move them tomorrow. It just seems like the full all-afternoon sun might be too much for them. I heard peppers like it hot, but maybe it's just too much!

i had a go around with bhut jolokias here in texas. i gave them too much nitrogen and they bloomed all at once. now i have to wait for the plant to grow new buds. the heat will cause peppers to be tough like card board if you leave it too long on the vine. i live here in central texas were a heat wave is normal every year.

oops i mean too much phosphorus

One of my pepper varieties is behaving like your Corni di Toros. In my situation, I believe it is bad seed. I ordered from a particular vendor and all of the plants had issues, even though I raised the chillies the same as the ones that came from other sellers. I plan to sow new seed to replace the problem plants.

Thanks everyone for the responses!

I think I figured it out. The peppers are not Corno di Toros. So since I have been leaving them on the vine waiting for them to get bigger, they must be "overdone", thus making them tough. They're at most 5" long. The seed must have been mislabeled.

So they must be some other type of pepper. Here's a pic of them.

P.S. Should this be in the chile pepper forum?

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