That is called corking. Very normal . Just means they are ready to eat . Unless you want to wait another month till there red,

Corking is what you have going on, mostly jalapeno but other varieties do this as well. That's some major corking going on though, some varieties even between the jalapenos display different amount of corking. Do a search for pepper corking to view photos.

Mark

Ha Romy6 quick draw poster, beat me by a min.

Oh, alright. Thanks. This seems strange though since none of the previous peppers it has produced exhibited this much corking, and at such an early stage. Some of them start to cork like in the picture as soon as they are visible, and then grown quite a bit larger. You can see the one on the right in the picture how it is misshapen. For about a week only that small part towards the bottom was visible and was corked like that, then the bulbous green part started to grow. Any idea why they are corking so quickly and so small?

This post was edited by Mnc300 on Tue, Oct 8, 13 at 16:13

Could be weather, light strength from the sun, or just a genetic anomaly in the pod or something happened during pod formation. Just a runt or two in the litter, this happens.

Mark