Hi Jim,

I think that's about right. Your a little ahead of my plants. I have two peppers on one plant. The rest are either just flowering or still growing. I didn't get all of mine in until mid-late June. I think everything, in general, in the Northeast is off by a week or two since our May was so cold & dreary.

Not to worry!

Thanks, boo. That helps.

Jim

Hi Jim, I was reading on another gardening forum. Peppers as well as other things are slow this year. Thought you might wanna take a look.

Here is a link that might be useful: My Slowest Growing Season

No problems with the growing season here. In fact, this is the best garden I've ever had. As I said, I just don't have a good idea of how much and how soon the chiles should be producing. The plants look great. Upon careful searching, I found a *few* more pods, cleverly camoflaged amongst the stalks and foliage. A couple were 3 inches or so long. That was encouraging. I'm probably fretting too much.

Jim

I have Alma Paprika, Jimmy Nardello, Santaka and Bhut Jolokia with mature size fruit. A month ago, it didn't look as if I would. Plants just sat out there. Too hot and then while not too cold, not optimum either. Several yellowed and died. Had flowers on the Bhut Alma and Nardellos the first week in June but the fruit didn't set. Then all of a sudden....whoosh....everything looks good. All should be ripe by the end of this month(the Jolokias only because they were started Feb 22nd and pampered under lights. They were two feet tall when set out).

Last year started out much, much better but in the last week or two, this year's peppers have caught up to the 2007 crop.