I've never grown Poblano as I can always buy them at local super markets, my reason being, why not grow the ones I can't find locally?

Having posted that disclaimer I could swear I've read a few times that others had the same issue, disappointment in grown fruit compared to what they've seen.

NECM

My understanding is that the long poblanos that you get in restaurants are hybrids. My poblanos get around 3 inches long before they ripen to red.

The size of your plant and late fruit set makes me think your plants got too much nitrogen.

i have three plants growing in a self watering container. They are between 3 and 4 ft tall, and we have picked them several times, about 10 or 12 at a time. They are loaded with pods and flowers, which is typical as cooler weather approaches. You can see several pods in this close up.

Poblanos served as rellenos in Méjico are 6-8" long. They are mostly landrace varieties. Ones I have raised were about 6" long and the seed was from a landrace.

I used the tomato plant food from Miracle-Gro this summer. It didn't seem to impede the other pepper varieties from setting. Pretty impressive plant you got!

Willard, can you give me a source for the landrace variety? I'd love to grow a larger poblano without going the hybrid route. Tom

My first and second flushes of Poblanos are huge, However, as the season winds down, they do become smaller(maybe 4-5 inches). But definitely still stuffable. Leave them on the plant...as long as they don't start to turn color, they still have a chance of getting larger.

Are you growing in containers? My experience tells me that large fruited annuums like Poblanos do best in the ground or very large containers. Shame you lost all those flowers...my gut tells me those were the fruit that produce the very large ones.

Kevin

we had a string of 90+ days for most of june and july, which prob contributed to it.

I have them in a container.

Get on an air plane and visit a mercado when you get to Méjico is the best I can do for you, Kentishman. The campesinos don't sell seed commercially that I know of.

That's cool willard. I hope I can do that one of these days. In the meantime, I'll make do with my baby poblanos.

It could be due to variety or the fact that days are getting shorter and temperatures cooler. In zone 4 my poblanos are about done. I picked 2 red ones today that are in the dehydrated now becoming Anchos. I also have a green one growing that I will pick in a day or 2 and freeze. That ones about 4 or 5 inches. Peppers grow slow when it gets cooler and ripen at a smaller size. Since yours fruited so late I tend to think that's the main issue in size

I've had very mixed results with Poblanos. Some years they are large, some years small. I've had 2 pods from the same plants with different heats. This year I've had the same results as peps. The plant got very tall during the hot weather with most blossoms dropping. Now that it has cooled off some, I have several nice pods growing. Hopefully they will get larger and ripen before frost. I do use them for rellenos, although I would also like to try the landrace variety.

BTW: I grow them in the ground.

John A

How many gallons is your container? I've found that moving totes seem to work pretty well for peppers (bigger ones for bigger peppers). Small peppers are generally fine in 4-5-gallon buckets, though. I usually put 2 Jalapeno peppers in a 10-gallon moving tote, and they do quite well (but could get bigger fruits with only one plant, or a larger tote, it seems). I have three Chervena Chushka peppers in I think a tote that looks about 17-21 gallons or so, and they did very well. Anyway, if you put one Poblano in a 10+ gallon moving tote, I'm guessing it would do great. I haven't grown Poblanos, though, but I have tried Big Bertha F1 in a 17-21 gallon or so tote (planted with cucumbers in the same container—I'm not saying you should do that; I just tried it out just because), and it's been getting some bigger peppers. 10-gallon totes are a lot easier to move than anything bigger, just so you know, and they're less expensive.