Depends on what kind they are.
Habaneros don't have pods until mid/late summer unless like mine they were started in Dec.-Jan.
Mine are making some buds now but the plants are not very big yet so it's probably not going to hold on to the buds yet.
My Cherry bomb,Hungarian wax,pimento,italian gourmet and banana peppers are making buds and pods now.So are the thai red hot, thai dragon and giant thai plants.
The tree habanero has almost ripe pods on it and is starting to bud again.It's 5 yrs. old.
Fish pepper cross is covered with pods and flowers.
Maybe the weather is messing with your plants growth.
Our weather has been about a week of 80-100 degree days with high 60's nights then we get 60-70 degree days and 40-50 degree nights.
My plants start to grow like crazy then the cold makes some of them start to loose leaves and turn yellow.
Then the sun comes back and they grow great until the next temp. change.
My plants are in containers from 3 gal. to 20 gal. in size.
I think when we have the cool nights the soil in my pots gets cold and the day isn't hot enough to warm it back up so the plants don't do anything growth wise.
If the cool days last too long all the buds drop off until the next set of hot days.
My plants are from 6-7 ft. high to a couple inches tall.
It depends on what they are.
Most of my C.Annuums are among the biggest plants that were started this year and are earlier to bud and fruit.
You can look up the kind of peppers you have and see what it says for days until harvest.
If it says 80 days that means 80 days after you put them in the ground.
C.Chinense are more like 100 days.
C.Annuums seem to be anywhere from 60-80 days I think in general.
My Jalapenos are still growing with no sign of buds and it's about 2 ft. high and branching out right now.
I think once the weather stabilizes the plants will get back in gear and go back to growing again.

Now I wish I remember exactly when I put them in the ground :( Maybe I can find out by checking my email when I told people.

Is there a chart to show what all these scientific plant names are normally called such as your C.Annuums?

It's strange to me that you say your weather is good for them, but your cold causes them not to do well. Texas is not going to get any cooler until late August, September and summer here will last until November.

Try these links

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/finder/index.php?sname=Peppers

http://www.g6csy.net/chile/database.html

Here is a link that might be useful: chile database

Yeah this is a weird year for north Texas peppers. Our community garden peppers are just not really growing either. There has been too much up/down in the temps. Now that the hot weather has come they will grow and by the time it gets cool again they should really be big and ready to produce.

I know they say peppers like the heat but I don't think they mean the beating sun and still prairie weather we have here. Over the years I've noticed that unless they have some afternoon shade they struggle until the days get cooler. Then they really start producing. Hang in there and you'll get peppers.

Good news, a bunch of these, this one being the biggest are showing up. I've got apr 10 Serranos, 5 bell peppers, probably too many Habaneros to count, and I'm waiting on the others. These are all from plants that either had a head start by being bought as baby plants in a store or saved in a greenhouse from last year. My sunflowers should give them some evening sun, and I know what you mean by beating sun in Texas.

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Strange things have been going on. How is other people's pepper harvest going?

I have one Beaver Dam, one mariachi and some Ecuador longs, that's it for peppers and those were all bought( the plants) A few have blossoms but it's early here and has been a very cold wet spring. The summer heat will perk them up. By August they should be doing good. The hardest part of growing peppers is sitting back and giving them time to produce...impatience we are!!!!

Oops forgot to mention that all of the ones I started from seed are growing but slowly and many are small. They will catch up, probably have 100 plus plants including many super hots, some in the ground, some in containers. Peppers just refuse to be rushed.

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Find a way to resize your pics or those with dial-up will come in the night to kill you.

My peppers are doing best where they are partially shaded from the sun under a cedar tree and so are a lot of plants.

If the flowers are where peppers will grow from, then why do some people pick them off or say to do that? It seems people would get less peppers that way.

The only time I remove flowers is early in the plant's growth.

If the plant for one reason or another (partial shade intollerant, weird weather, etc) is setting flowers that fruit before the plant is tall/strong enough to support the fruit I just go ahead and cut the developing fruit out if the blossom doesn't just drop on it's own.

I have one plant out of my 5 pepper plants which misses about 1.5-2 hours of sun a day thanks to some poor planning around a neighbor's ivy-covered tree. It started setting 2 fruits this week which would pretty much be 1" from the ground and probably dragging the ground with a good downpour weighing it down. It's a very bushy plant, but thanks to a mix of lessened sun and weird weather it's about a foot behind it's counterparts in size. I need that plant to devote all the energy it can to growing up and being strong before I worry about getting an extra week or two of harvest off that particular plant.