Peppers are strong and especially the size yours is, it will bounce back. sucks that you had hail and you were not home to bring them in.

As noted above, they'll grow more leaves....eventually. It'll set production back, that's for sure. You said peppers....Is the picture the worst of the bunch or are they all like that? Because if they're all like that you may not get much of a harvest, depending on the length of your growing season.

If you planted another Pepper plant right now and grew them side by side, you would not catch up to the hail damaged pepper until december if not much longer.

That plant will just have to take a break and put it's energy into growing foliage for a while before it starts concentrating on putting out little peppers but it won't take long. You will see new green growth come quickly over the next couple of weeks.

WE had some hail over the last couple of days but mostly pea size and nothing prolonged....thankfully, no damage for me after having my plants out for only 5 or 6 days.

Thanks for the replies. I feel alot better about it. The one in the pic is the worst out of 6 but there are a couple others who are not so great.