This has been a very odd year, and from reading several posts on this and other gardening forums, it seems to be across the board in terms of geography. I'm in the northwest, you're in Maine..and everything in between. It's almost spooky.

Like the song says..."Somethin's happenin' here, and what it is ain't exactly clear."

If I were you, I'd pull them up and start a fall crop.

If its any consolation...I am a little further south than you, I have one bloom on 9 pepper plants, and I'm going to attibute it to all the heat we had here. Eggplants love the heat and are producing like crazy, I thought pepper plants did too, but I'm guessing they like cooler temps. However that being said, I have two large Habanero pepper plants in pots, they are producing like crazy...go figure. Its just been a crazy all around gardening season.

Alberta

What? I didn't plant my peppers in the wrong location? I had fantastic peppers two years in a row planted along the south foundation of our white painted house. The plants were different heirloom varieties from a local grower. One plant started falling over last year from the weight of all the peppers.

This year I thought I should start rotating things so the peppers went into 3 different locations. It seems that certain varieties are producing but nothing like last year and the ones not producing have blossoms but no fruit. It's been very hot and dry but I have kept them watered. I did pick two small peppers last week and the branches were so brittle I accidentally broke two big branches. I'm in NH. Last year we had too much rain.

Well, I went and talked to my local garden center. All agreed that if I could get them to bloom I'd have enough time for peppers before frost (solidago1, it's definitely too late here for starting fresh... our growing season is waaay too short!)

So I got some Super Phosphate (I normally garden entirely organically but made an exception this time) and watered it in well. We'll see if I get any blooms soon.

FWIW, my eggplants (in the same row!) and tomatoes are both doing GREAT this year. I can't figure why the peppers would be different.....

Kinda the same thing here, peppers ALWAYS do well in my sandy soil, but they're languishing this year...fortunately i planted way too many!

Eggplants are huge, and the sweetest ones i think i have ever grown, in fact for the first time, i have critters eating them!

Same kind of paradox with melons...I have watermelons coming fast enough to give away, but the bloody cantelopes planted at the same time are still embryonic...the only good sized one i have is an Alaska, which shoulda been ripe already.

Rain has been a little short, but i almost prefer that to too much, especially as humid as it has been. Temps are warm, as they should be in July, and we had a mild spring...i really dunno why things are moving so slowly...and my weather is so much different from yours.

I think it's a conspiracy...

Well, I finally had a chance to do a little research on the net. Somewhere I found a bullitin from the university of MN that said they may not blossom because of night time temps being under 60 degrees or over 75 degrees. Or possibly from moisture stress. It also said to mix one teaspoon of epsom salt in one quart of water and spray on. The magnesium is supposed to help with blossom set. I think I will give it a try.

What is super phosphate?

Night temps are the culprit here as well...we're in August and it still gets down to 56 degrees at night. It's been like that for over a month now. Great for sleeping, though.

Weird, I'm in NJ and have the same problem this year. Not one single bell pepper on 4 plants. I've only gotten a few on my cubanelle and mini sweet peppers. Just 4 tiny jalapenos, and zero poblanos, whereas last year I had them coming out of my ears.

I guess maybe it is hot night temps in my case? I have no idea.

Funny how it goes in cycles. This is the best year for peppers I have had in the past 4 years. My jalapeno plants are bending over from the weight, each of my bell pepper plants have 4-6 pepper growing.

Well, last night I gave the peppers the epsom salt treatment. Will give them a week or so and see what happens.

try picking them few fruits off maybe? i noticed with my various pepper species when i picked fruits it seemed to stimulate a blossom phase. Maybe just coincidence, i dont know.

I stopped growing bell peppers years and years ago. I'm a very experienced gardener, but I just never had consistent results from bell peppers. But Corno di Toro are exactly the same taste as bells and yield like crazy. Always.

My Carmen and Jimmy Nardello peppers have tons of fruit (and more blossoms). We have been harvesting for a week or so. Last year, they didn't do as well.

The eggplants aren't doing as well as last year though we have enough for the two of us and the squirrels who seem to love them.

I've had trouble this year too. My jalapenos are fantastic, and producing beautifully, but the bell pepper just doesn't want to do anything. I've gotten two peppers total off of it, and one I picked small. There's two more growing out there, but they're tiny. Could be the heat, it's been insanely hot this summer.

It must be something going around. The bells I planted in Spring are very runty. They are producing some peppers but very thin walled. The Mid Summer ones seem to be doing much better. They are just starting to flower so I'll see if they produce better peppers. We had a very cool, foggy Spring so maybe the early ones just didn't get a good start.