Blossom end rot, sunscald, and/or a worm inside.

Where about are you located and how are you growing them?

Rodney

Thanks Rodney. I'm in Melbourne, Australia. I'm growing them organically in a mix of top soil and mushroom compost. It's not worms but I'll look into your other two suggestions. ☺☺

honestly it almost appears that there could be different problems. The top right clearly is some type of rot. The small one touching the green pepper almost appears to be some type of canker. Have you grown peppers in the same spot in back to back years?

Thank you for your response. I planted them where I had my root vegetables last time. I had a good look at the plants themselves and they're all very green and healthy. I'll look deeper into your suggestion of a canker ☺

I think blossom end rot may definitely be the problem on some of them, but you are right, there may be different problems as some of the diseased areas are soft and mushy but others are dry.

I had similar symptoms on a few individual peppers but not until later in the fall. I chaulked it up to excessive moisture or inconsistent watering. It'll be interesting to see if anyone has a conclusive answer or opinion this.

Blossom end rot, your soil is lacking calcium, you could go to the hot pepper forum on the gardenweb we talk about mild and even sweet peppers.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/pepper

you can buy a quick acting calcium because egg shells or bonemeal will take to long to break down and provide calcium you could use

http://www.amazon.com/Foli-Cal-Foli-Cal-Liquid-Calcium/dp/B004HFHPEI?tag=viglink20248-20

Or search on gardenweb for smokemasters witches brew to make your own at a lower cost

It does look like several different problems maybe. BER, sunscald, and bacterial spots.

It must be difficult to grow veggies in Australia... it is very desert-like with no real winter.

I used to live in Australia. The most populous areas are oceanic and humid-subtropical. Melbourne is the former. Australia is pretty much as desert-like as the U.S. is. Freezing temperatures are indeed rare, but that's the case in large similar sections of the U.S. where growing peppers isn't a local problem.

I also used to live in Australia. In Brisbane. Never been to Melbourne, maybe things are a little different in that area. Even in Brisbane, on the coast, everything is very dry and the sun has this extreme burning quality to it, with summer temps in the 100's F common with very little rain. They recycled sewage for drinking water due to the extreme prolonged drought, just to put things in perspective. At least, that's what it was like when I was there.

The vast majority of Australia (geography wise) is inhospitable desert, sorry but that is a fact. Populated areas are localized to the least dry coastal areas. The whole mainland center of it is very barren, and freezes are almost non existant.

IMO the climate is nothing like the USA on a whole.

Interesting perspective on Brisbane. Of course, Queensland has, over the last decade, been in the midst of a terrible drought, but the normal yearly rainfall is much larger than for even most coastal U.S. cities. A large piece of the U.S. is inhospitable desert as well, and I have to say that we have a few active gardeners in this forum from those regions who do quite well. I lived near Sydney, which is somewhat cooler than Brisbane, but I was surprised at the idea that summertime temps in the 100Fs are common in Brisbane. If you look it up, that seems not to to be the case. During this Brisbane summer, I don't think the temp has been over 95F, and mostly well below that.

But in general, I think it's dangerous to make a blanket climactic characterization for an entire continent.

I didn't grow vegetables when I lived in Australia, but loads of gardeners did.

I didn't mean to imply at all it is impossible, just some challenges to deal with, different from NY for sure. (And IMHO I was trying to say those challenges seem evident in the issues the OP is dealing with.)

Perhaps things have changed, but when I was in Brisbane it was very hot and very, very dry, to the point there wasn't enough water to drink. And I can say with confidence the geographic majority of Australia is not populated for a reason.

Hi everyone. Thank you so much for your suggestions. I do put eggshells in but hadn't thought of the fact that they take so long to break down, so I will definitely try adding calcium.

In regards to the weather in Melbourne, it's not as bad as some of you may be thinking. In summer we get tops of 30-35 C around 85-95 F and winter tops are around 10-15C which is 50 -60F. Winter lows overnight might get to 2C, around 35F. We get rain, sometimes a lot but it's always wise to have a water tank. Not only just in case we don't have enough water for our veggies or gardens but also to save money on using water from the mains. We can grow all sorts of fruit and veggies, as long as they aren't tropical.

A lot of areas in Australia have very harsh climates, but the cities and surrounds (where most of the population lives) have good climates. Australia is pretty much the same size as the US, so our climate in different parts is as different as the climate in different parts of the US.