Strange leaves on pepper plants

[Kris410]

Hi, I'm a first time pepper grower!
My pepper plants are at various stages of growth but nearly all of them are developing either one or multiple of these really strange leaves that are curved downwards, elongated in shape and hard to the touch.
I can't figure out what it is. This is most prevalent in my hydroponic Scorpion pepper plant where I pruned it but all the new leaves are coming out this way. The growth at the beginning was fine.
Could this be over fertilisation? Why would I have that in my other soil plants too though? The Bhut Jolokia developed two of those leaves too right after I transferred it into a bigger pot with new potting soil.
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Please Help. Can't find the answer to this!
Thanks K




 



 

 

[Edmick]

Those plants are pretty young. If you started with quality soil you shouldn't need many ferts. Your soil looks like it has the perfect moisture level from what i can tell. The only advise i can give at this stage is back off the ferts and check for pests and you should be good. You're gonna need some bigger pots at sone point though

 

[Kris410]

Thanks for the reply!
 
Yea, I don't think it's the moisture at all, my over fertilization question is stemming from (no pun intended) the fact that on the pepper plant i'm growing hydroponically almost all the new leaves are coming out like I described, curved downwards and crinkly ever since I increased the nutrients in the water. The other potted plants also have one or two leaves like that though, which is the strange part because I have not put any fertilizer in the potted plants yet. However, the ones that are showing these signs in pots have been exposed to new potting soil either during transfer or topping up. Maybe the new potting soil was too rich as well?
 
Just shooting in the dark here, I don't want my pepper plants to grow up looking like mutants and bearing no fruit is all.
 
 

 

[MNXR250R]

Every Super Hot Pepper I've grown indoors has had the crinkled looking leaves.  Might be from the ferts being too strong, but could also be from the distribution of the light spectrum (blues/reds) coming from my lights.
 
I have a Bhut that I started indoors under T5 and then moved it outdoors in early June. The Bhut's been outside for almost 6 weeks and the new leaves still have that crinkled look to them.  I'm wondering if that's just the way they are going to look when the grow in my environment. 
 
So then if the leaves are green and growing, I say let them crinkle and don't sweat it  After all, we want the mature peppers in the end.... not the leaves !
 
Jeff