I sent this into r/vegetablegardening but I’m not even sure if it went through the mod process. I’ll copy what I have anyway:
I have multiple jalapeño, Greek pepperoncini
and bell peppers – most potted and one bell pepper in a raised bed. Living in north jersey (6b/7a) recently I have mostly been moving them indoors at night but a couple times they have been exposed to temps around 52f and I am starting to think they have been stunted as I have seen no growth in the fruiting ones and no progress towards flowering in the non flowering ones. My main concern is my sole fruiting ones may have been screwed but I would like to see them all progress. Does anyone have suggestions if it is possible to jump start them and get them to keep growing their fruits/ keep progressing towards flowering as they are in different states (pepperoncinis are especially young)! Or are they totally done for? Any suggestions including advice on indoor/ over winter growing lights welcome. Once again I would love to salvage my fruiting 2x bell pepper and 1x jalapeño to continue their fruit growth even if it means I lose the others to the stunting. Any and all advice welcome! I am prepared to purchase and set up an indoor lighting system to get them produce as the weather gets colder if possible.
by Hoopershooter
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I am no expert, but I am in the same situation. It got into the 40s a couple nights in late August, which totally disrupted my plant’s growth. I ended up bringing 4 of them inside hoping to keep the fruits going.
My two datils have resumed growth of current pods and are actively flowering again.
My shishito had a ton of pods and they did not continue to grow and started ripening the small fruits so I harvested the whole plant about 3 days ago and pruned off all unsuccessful flowers and pods. I am hoping to see the plant start flowering again after a recovery period.
My mystery plant had a couple pods left to finish which successfully ripened and it is now growing and creating flowers again.
Sooo, I am finding so far a mostly good recovery after a cold shock by continuing them indoors.
I think it’s more of a bug problem. I see some of your leaves have been chewed up. My plants have done decently well, but not perfect, in the 50s for weeks. Yes, they may slow down, but they should still survive and ripen fruit in the 50s.
I think the bugs are sapping the life from the leaves, and the plant doesn’t have energy to fully mature fruit.