When will these peppers be ready to harvest?

The bell peppers should fist-sized.

The jalapeños should be thumb-sized. Maybe a Ron Swanson thumb.

I’m kinda jealous. My jalapeños are just stems and leaves. No sign of fruit yet.

I start to harvest my jalepenos when they are about 1.5 inches long and continue to harvest them until they turn purple. Then I harvest all of them. I also harvest most of them if there is going to be an early hard frost. My jalepenos gave me over 200 peppers from 2 plants last year.

Most jalepenos reach a maximum of 2 to 3 inches in length.

Bell peppers I harvest as needed once they get big enough to use in the recipe I am making. I try to let a few get big enough to stuff. I will also pick all the peppers before the first frost.

@WestRiverrat Thanks for the advice. I’ll probably let the jalapenos go another week or so before I pick any. I just want to make sure they have gotten as big as they will. It won’t hurt right?

I’m glad my peppers are doing good. My tomato wasn’t so lucky. I had to tear it out of the pot because all the tomatoes had blossom end rot. I think the tomato caught late blight. The leaves were wilting and were covered in black spots and turning brown around the edges.

I bought a new tomato today, a cherry, and I’m hoping it will produce before the end of the season. Wish me luck.

@flip86 Good luck with them. The bell peppers look great, but they don’t look like they are there yet. As @jaytkay says, they need to get some size on them before being picked. They build their sugar content in ripening, so will taste much better if they are fully ripe. We always planted some red and orange ones along with the green. They are sweeter, higher in phytonutrients, and provide a good color gage to when the whole crew is getting ripe.

Here’s a guide that will help in deciding when to harvest.

Thanks for asking this question last year I grew peppers and though they grew to proper size they didn’t have the right taste to them… Tasted quite unripe. So this year I didn’t try.
But I will use the answers for next year.

@jaytkay Same here, I have 15 jalapeno plants (that’s what happens when ya just scatter seeds :P) They’re all doing good but quite small still. My habaneros are starting to fruit though :)