Small pods on mature plants

[scotchnaga85]

The first set of peppers are often screwy looking and stunted. I wouldn't worry too much about it. If there was too much nitrogen focusing on growth, I don't think you would get many pods. I could be wrong though.

 

That will definitely cause pods to be smaller. If you want smaller pods, you could force it by keeping them in a small container, heh.


Edit:

Very hot weather can also stunt growth.

 
I think this ^^^ is what the issue might have been  . After re-potting them the plants had a second growth spurt around the same time it flowered. I think the energy went into growing a bigger plant and the pods suffered. I know with chinense the first lot are normally small, but once the plant reaches maturity bigger pods come.
 

To me it looks like they need some new shoes! They might just be rootbound.

 
Certainly not root bound, I only re-potted them into larger pots this spring.
 
On the subject of roots, when I removed them from their old pots around 70% of last years roots had died off over the course of winter.
 
Any way I updated my glog just over a week ago with some pod porn from the plants
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/40703-my-growing-season-update-with-pods/