That is ok. You can pinch them off. Some of mine (NuMexy Twilight, Chenzo, shishito ...) have pods under light.
Nitrogen is not responsible for budding. Actually it does the opposite.
What kind of lights are you using ?

Some spectrum encourage flowering early.

No lights. These are outside in my greenhouse. 7am to 7:30pm photoperiod (12.5 hours). Good to know, I'll keep pinching them.

Thanks!

My serrano plant shows several lil buds ready to start flowering, looks very healthy though, but if it flowers at a early stage does it mean something's wrong. my plant is about 12inces in height, is it better to pinch them off?

Thanks

Peppers flowering at 8-12 inches is normal. I only pinch off flowers when the plants are smaller than 6". The decision to take off flowers really depends on your growing season. Will you more likely than no have enough time remaining before frost to let your plant grow more flowers, set pods and then ripen them? If not, leave the flowers or else you risk no pods this year.

Thanks Marianne!

What times of the month is it a good time to grow chili peppers? I thought peppers were pretty well adapted through out the year. I reside in southern California, and it really doesn't get that cold, well I don't think so. lol

I have mine in what seems to be a one gallon pot, would I eventually need to move them over to a bigger pot, or could I keep them there Intel they produce?

1 gallon is pretty small for a pepper. On hot dry days, they will need to be watered daily and probably twice daily. The general thought for most peppers is at least three gallons and 5 gallons is a pretty common size. If you are growing small ornamentals or something, you can get by with the smaller containers, but with plants that grow 4-5 feet tall and wide, you need a lot more than a one gallon pot. When you do repot your plants they will likely suffer from transplant shock for a while. They will go kind of dormant until they get used to the new home. It usually doesn't last more than a week. Then they will start to take off again. If your plants are already root bound in the small containers, they are probably already semi dormant. And if they are root bound, you will want to "disturb" the root ball before transplanting them. That means you need to break it up a bit. The roots would be trained to only grow within that tiny 1 gallon shape and would have a hard time breaking out of that even after transplanting to a larger pot, so you need to give it a little start by breaking up the root ball. Some people cut verticle slices into the rootball with a sharp knife. About 4 or 5 is plenty and you would only cut about 1/2 inch deep. That frees up the roots as well.

I say repot them now. They may go dormant for a while, may even drop most of their buds and fruit that is currently on them, but you have a very long growing season and they will soon get back to producing buds, blooms and peppers and hopefully much more prolifically. Good luck.

Growing like crazy still. All the Jalap plants have anywhere from 100 to 150 peppers on them. BIG guys too. Very impressed with this year's production:

This plant is turning out pretty cool as well:

very nice looking pods and plants

Bluevano1, I think 1 gallon will be way too small for your plants. I have a couple in 5 gallon pots and they pale in size compared to the large pots or in the beds. The other issue is watering, the little pots will dry out fast and it will be tough to maintain proper levels of moisture as someone else mentioned. I think the smallest you can grow them in would be a big spackle bucket or you can buy them at HomeDepot for a couple of dollars. Makes sure you drill the holes around the circumference about 2" from the bottom. The containers will dry out much faster than those in the ground so I try to compensate by cheating the amount of direct sun. I place them in an area that is shaded from about 3 pm on. I am on Long Island and that is the highest sun here with sunset close to 8 I think.

Instead of the bottom, drill around the circumference about 2" off the bottom every 4-5 inches. Holes in the bottom allow water and fertilizer the ability to drain too fast.

I have some jalapeño plants that are mild and others that are hotter than any other jalapeño I've tasted. A golden cayenne feels as hot as my habanero peppers. I think it is the professional growers know/understand the care aspect better. I water every 5/6 days normally, but super dry here so every 3 days I flood them and protect them from too much sun. The super hots tend to be more sensitive in my experience. The standard cayenne and pepperoncini seem to just take care of themselves as long as I stay out of their way. My bhut and scorpions are very very hot but smaller in size than many people have in better climates and longer growing season.

By the way, 5 gallon buckets from HD are much bigger than 5 gallon landscape containers. Since you're in HD anyway, they sell earplugs which are a great asset when the complaining starts ;)

Habs starting to really ripen out now. Canadian Habs! And not the Montreal kind!

the Montreal habs are blue and red and they stink.....

Hey theripetomatofarm, I am in Ontario. I'd love to get my hands on some of those Jalapeno seeds. Wondering if you'd be interested in a seed swap. I will have a good amount of seeds to trade. PM me if interested.

For sure man. I am sectioning off and bagging some Jalapeno flowers so I'll have some pure ones. They are just fantastic. I hope they make good Chipotles!!!