Well, no, that is not normal at all (not for so many pods to turn so soon)...and those don't look like Bhut Jolokia, the Ghost Pepper. Do you have pics of the full-sized green pods? A clear picture preferably.

Josh

Sure is strange! I took a pic of two on there now.

Other one!

Very odd, indeed. Perhaps some stress caused them to ripen. You're the only one with the information.

The green pods you posted do look much more like Ghosts.

Josh

Your second and third pics are most certainly Ghost's.

Dave

Hmmm...the plants have never gone outside. I've have two LED grow lights and a natural white light on them for the past year.They're almost two years old now. I have only ever had four full peppers grow in the past two months! I Was very excited to see all the bulbs starting lol! They grew to that size, turned red and haven't changed since. There isn't any heat to them at all! Which leads to my next questing. Should I take them off the plants or leave them? Do you think the red peppers would be sucking all the nutrients and not allowing others to grow? Thanks a bunch!

Definitely pull those pods off now!

Josh

Roger that! Done thanks!

I bet even that small, those pods are super hot. i would just dry those out and crush them into a powder mix.

Waste not....

That's what I was thinking but absolutely no heat. Taste like an normal sweet green pepper. Probably hit the sallid this evening! ;)

hahahaha, until you find that ONE little, itty bitty one that grew true and has all the heat of a ghost pepper.
Can I watch?

Lol, All good! No hotties! ;)

I would say that it is a genetic disorder of some sort, just like cat facing in tomatoes. Plants genetic program can get confused and loose their blueprints.

That's interesting seysonn! My plants are at it again! The bulbs are only turning red on certain branches. The othere parts of the plants are still producing fully grown peppers. Has any body ever observed this on a pepper plant before?

When something similar happens in tomatoes, it is sometimes called "INCOMPLETE POLLINATION". We know that peppers and tomatoe are self pollinator. I suspect that due to environmental and/or genetics the product of pollination becomes defective. In tomatoes this happens early in the season. Evidently because, MAYBE the sexual system of the plant is not yet perfected or due to the cold. T

If it occurs only on certain branches, snip off those branches (and send them to a plant museum). I've seen several cases where a plant anomaly seems to affect only one branch and the rest of the plant is fine. So encourage the parts that are fine.

Dennis