I have them growing now. Not sure how big the pods get or the plants but here is a pic.

Nice looking pods Ronny......

yah, nice looking pods. Did your plant grow strait and tall to start with like mine did. It is probably close to a foot tall and just recently branched.

No. I topped them when they were young.
I think these pods are still small. I had one on the 2nd pic plant that was 7 inch but had blossom rot so I pulled it.

Hmmm sounds like these plants are kinda slow growers. I dont even have a pod started yet. I would have to look to be sure, but I dont think I even have a bloom yet. I hope I can nurse it along into the fall so I can get some RIPE peppers.

A month or so should have pods with all this warm weather.

Yah, maybe you in zone 9. I am in zone 4b. We have only had a few days in the 80's so far.

It has to get warm over there sometime. You do get a warm season right. It should be coming.

Yah, we are just entering the warmest part of the year. But hitting 90 around here usually doesn't happen more than a few times a year.

What parts do you hail from Esox? I am in the fox valley area

I am over by the Wisconsin Dells.

Right on.We will have to trade some seeds/pods this fall.I have 150 plants with 63 varieties this year.Happy growing

lol. That is a lot of plants. Are they in the ground or in containers?

I am in town,so all are in containers!

My dad's good buddy grows them. He claims to have had two different seed sources last year, the pods were slightly different, but the flavor on both were the same.

I've eaten at least a dozen of them, grilled, fried etc. Flavor-wise: somewhat similar to certain italian fryers / corno di toro, rich & smokey sweet? Thick flesh, and they do not have that slightly bitter under-tone that Bell peppers have when you fry them.

With moving the buckets around to capture the sun, i'll bet that you get at least full sized green pods, which means they'll taste decent and most of their seeds should be viable.

Steve

Do they ever turn red eventually? And my plant gets just about as much direct sun as is possible in my yard.

Yes they do, they ripen directly from green to red. And since that transplant was decent sized, my guess is that you'll get some red ones, even with a short-ish growing season.

They're slowly becoming more popular by the way, i see them mentioned in most gardening forums now.

Steve