This has never happened to me before. It's a dragon's breath pepper that i grew last summer. It gets enough water and gets fertilizer once a week (i do this with all my peppers and i've never had problems with them). Any idea what could be the cause?
by exillias
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It happens to me all the time, sometimes they just drop a fruit here and there, usually just a couple. generally a yellow stem means the plant cut it off from nutrients, it’ll probably fall off if you touch it. I actually don’t know why it happens to me sometimes, but none of my peppers have a 100% success rate. Btw that plant looks super healthy, looks like there’s plenty more coming in too.
Your plant will start cutting off nutrients to some peppers if there’s a lot of peppers on at once, it can only support so many at a time with the nutrients available.
The plant may have decided to abort the deformed fruit. Could be localized infection.
I had a Scotch bonnets cut off a pepper that was 3/4 of the way. Just happens sometimes I guess