Are you using any fertilizer? What are your temps like?

Also, looks like you've got some bug damage there.

What temps and humidity are you dealing with? Shaking the plant lightly can increase pollination as peppers are self pollinating, but they look to be outdoors so the wind should handle pollination. Looks like minor leaf miner damage you can just find the end of the trail and pinch the leaf to kill them since it's minor or remove and discard them.

I hate to break it to you, but I've had some plants that do this and others don't. Your plant looks healthy and temps are right. Very annoying. High humidity will also shut down fertilization. Yes shaking the flower might help. Tap the flowers every day. Are they in a place where there is no wind to do that shaking? You can also swirl a Q-tip inside each flower to help it do its stuff.

It is in a container, is over a year old, and it has never been fed anything? How is it supposed to get the nutrients it needs to set and ripen fruit?

Dave

From what I can see, your plants look fine. The visible damage is entirely cosmetic. I'd just chill.

Soap probably won't get leaf miners they are in-between the leaf layers. I am surprised that it's doing this well in a pot with no additional fertlizer maybe the nitrogen from rain storms has been good to your pepper. Egg shells or compost may not do much of anything in a pot, the necessary soil microbs usually don't do well in pots it gets too hot. Most that grow in pots go the synthetic route. But what you have been doing the plant looks healthy but it's missing something because jalapeños under a year produce heavly in my experience.

Yeah leaf miners pose no threat and soap won't work on them anyway.

But as already mentioned without supplemental and regular feedings of a well balanced nutrient source there is little hope for anything but leaf growth. That is true for any plant grown in a container.

Plants need potassium and phosphorus to set and produce fruit and micro-nutrients to maintain nutrient balance as it grows. Those aren't available in containers unless the grower supplies them regularly. Regularly because nutrients leach out of the container every time it is watered so a common recommendation of container growers is a 1/2 strength diluted feeding every 10-12 days.

As for compost, in a container compost provides little in the way of nutrition except some nitrogen. One has to understand how compost works, what else compost has to have present - an active soil micro herd of bacteria and soil residents - for it to work. That doesn't exist in a container. This issue is discussed in great deal on the Container Gardening forum here.

But there are numerous organic liquid fertilizer supplements available to feed plants if one doesn't wish to use synthetics.

Dave

Hey guys!! Guess what! My pant is starting to fruit three little peppers!!!

Um, that doesn't really look like an immature jalapeno. They are usually elongated, and not round. What variety is that?

I've had both eggplants and peppers that do the same thing. They just flower and flower and finally decide to get serious.

Well to be honest I just kept it watered and prayed about it.. I believe they are scotch peppers? Also used these fertilizer spikes.. Just once since I haven't used fertilizer before.. Which I know some people are not going to agree with it.. But I had to try!

Oh also I did trim the leaves where there was bugs and sprayed it down with water and peppermint oil so it has almost been about 2 weeks since then

Oh yes. Scotch bonnet. Nice job! BTW, I don't think bugs had anything to do with your problem. You just had to wait it out. For potted peppers, they look marvelous, and I suspect the spikes helped a lot. They are like 13-5-5, which is probably pretty optimal, and they are a low maintenance form of fertilization for pots. How long do those spikes last? I mean, are they good for months?

They say new ones every 60 days

Hey everyone this morning I woke up to a pepper on the grown and he's yellow

Are you sure you're growing jalapenos over there? lol

Check this out! http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/2126599/strange-yellow-jalapenos

Looks like you're not the only one.

See buddaley's pic on there. Looks similar to yours. Like a habanero.

It's a scotch pepper!!

Wow! I love Scotch pepper hot sauce :-)

I know I'm so excited!

OK I DONT THINK THIS IS A SCOTCH BONNET THEY HAVENT TURNED RED AND THEY HAVE BEEN ON THE TREE FOR ABOUT A WEEK... BUT I DO THINK IT IS A HABINARO OH AND BTW THEY ARE VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY HOT LIKE OMG WOW I CANT EVEN FEEL MY FACE WTH

Probably a hab, looks pretty much like one to me. Not a whole lot of fun to bit right into, but they make amazing jelly.

Oh thanks I'll have to try that out!

I think ripe Scotch Bonnet peppers are indeed deep orange like yours. Habs turn red when ripe. So I think you do have the former. But both are about the same in making you breathe fire. They Scoville in the hundred thousands.

Now that you're skilled in this arena, and your tongue and cheeks are well singed, you really ought to try growing some Bhut Jolokias. Hottest pepper in the world. About 10 times hotter than Scotch Bonnets and Habaneros. I think at least Baker Creek has seeds.

My habs always turn orange, though there are red ones.

Pretty pep pic, Zach.

OK I DONT THINK THIS IS A SCOTCH BONNET THEY HAVENT TURNED RED AND THEY HAVE BEEN ON THE TREE FOR ABOUT A WEEK... BUT I DO THINK IT IS A HABINARO OH AND BTW THEY ARE VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY HOT LIKE OMG WOW I CANT EVEN FEEL MY FACE WTH

HILARIUOS!!!!!!! HAHAHA! I'm laughing with you, not at you. (been there before!)

Well when I had my first pepper is smelled real sweet but I never bit into it so the other day I was reading up on both scotch bonnet and habanero s so I dicided to taste one and well it smells sweet but it's a trick.. They are really hot... I had whip cream all over my face trying to calm down the heat lol

Would any one know anything about making salsa with these hot baby's ?