if you can help it, pick only when ripe. i have to pick mine sometimes when they're partially ripe or starting to ripen to keep the maggots away. them fruit flies love to lay their eggs in my peppers.
can't really comment since my plants are fine. aside from the fact that i need to be on top of the heat and water them a little twice a day to keep them from wilting to death.
those look a lot like jamaican yellow mushroom peppers that i grow.
some people would call that a jamaican scotch bonnet but yellow mushroom peppers have move annuum characteristics and scotch bonnets are a mostly chinense variety.
it's probably because of my tropical environment. even my bhuts and other 7pots get extra pointy and bumpy.
thanks srin2!
all thanks to the knowledge i learned from here. =D