Slow pod growth in some plants

b3rnd

b3rnd

Hey guys!
 
I know I shouldn't expect anything too big in December anymore, but the weather has been decent. We've had a lot of sun, the temps have been around the tipping point (day 17-22 C, night 12-16 C) and my plants are still budding up. Now I have one plant that I bought in the store, plucked all pods of and repotted. It started to set new flowers, and now I've got a handful of decent sized fruits growing. The plants I've started from seed (Cayennes) are also flowering, and setting fruit. Except the fruit doesn't grow at all, it just stays the same size as when the flowers fell off. The pods aren't dying or falling off either. 
The medium I used for the store bought plant was a store bought potting mix. The plants I grew from seed are growing in my own basic mix of peat-compost-perlite. I fertilize with a quarter dose liquid fertilizer one week, and use a foliage spray of epsom salts in the other week. Then once a month I up the amount of liquid ferts to half a normal dose.
 
Does anyone have an idea what's going on?
 
Thanks for the reply! Yeah bad seed stock could very well be possible. They were the first seeds I could get my hands on here, and they were bought in the supermarket. Will post pics tomorrow because the sun is starting to go down already.
 
if its getting colder, as opposed to warmer, then its probably starting to spit out winter pods.
Winter pods are usually small like you described and don't grow any larger. They will stay small and stunted and will still usually turn red after a couple months, but generally don't have any heat and are mostly not worth bothering to use.
 
12c at night is getting borderline for the plants making new "real" pods. if its coming into winter, as opposed to spring, then its only going to get colder and you cant really expect new properly developed pods till it warms up again
 
nzchili said:
if its getting colder, as opposed to warmer, then its probably starting to spit out winter pods.
Winter pods are usually small like you described and don't grow any larger. They will stay small and stunted and will still usually turn red after a couple months, but generally don't have any heat and are mostly not worth bothering to use.
 
12c at night is getting borderline for the plants making new "real" pods. if its coming into winter, as opposed to spring, then its only going to get colder and you cant really expect new properly developed pods till it warms up again
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So the peppers sense when it's getting colder, even though the winter temps here might be the same as summer temps elsewhere? It's just the transition to cooler weather, no matter the actual temperature? Because I've grown decent peppers in a Dutch summer, and those are (temperature-wise) basically what I described in my post.
 
Do the shorter days have anything to do with it? I know chiles don't have a light cycle like that other thing we like to grow in the Netherlands, but the lower amount of sun hours might be of impact here.
 
Its the minimum overnight temps that gets to them.
 
for example, if you had 25deg days, and 10deg night. They are not going to do well even though the daytime high is quite good.
If you had 25 deg days, and 20deg nights, they will do very well.
 
edit; and obviously some plants handle the cold better than others
 
That is probably it then! Thanks a bunch. Just wanted to be sure it wasn't my mixture or feeding that did it. Will still post pics tomorrow for reference :)
 
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