I set out one banana pepper plant this season, along with everything else. First time ever to set one out. It made one crop, then quit. Hasn’t put out a single pepper since. Not even a bloom. It’s been probably 3 weeks or more since we picked them. Is that normal?

no, mine produce peppers long, hard, and late.

Any suggestions?

I have never planted a banana pepper plant that didn’t produce all the way into early fall. I have also never planted one pepper plant so I wonder if that could have something to do with it.

Pee on it.
I had a huge plant one year that the dog kept fertilized like that.
The best thing ever is to eat cherry tomatoes and banana peppers straight off the plants in the garden.

Fry up some ground meat with taco seasoning like your making tacos, when done set it aside and let it get room temp then mix a bunch of shreded pepper jack cheese, cut top off a banana pepper and core it then stuff it with meat and cheese stick top back on it with a tooth pick and throw on grill til cheese melts and runs out the top, pretty good stuff, bigger the pepper easier it is to do, you can wrap in bacon is good that way also

Who seeded the plant?

I ain't eating nothing the dog pees on.

I took the slingblade to my garden a month ago to make room for the winter stuff. The Banana Peppers grew back and are blooming again.

Gotta be a reason...maybe something with your soil, or lack of sun? Too late to fertilize, so if the plants haven't put on fruit, they probably won't make by the first frost.

My peppers always start to really put on about September. I'm covered up with lemon boys, jalapenos and a habanero right now. I do fertilize throughout the summer, and that seems to help the plants during the heat of the summer. I always over-winter one or two super-hots, since they are always slow producers in their first year. I've had a few turn into small trees and put on peppers like nobody's business. Even as a two year old plant, they still come on late in the year.

picked peppers yesterday...

So did I, figured I should get them before a frost does.

Just checked my lil garden, got some new peppers coming.

Picked a bunch of banana, bell and chili peppers today, might get another picking

I just saw that my pepper plants have put on a few blooms . Quite a few smaller banana, cubanelle, bell and new to me this year, lunch orange snacking peppers. All the peppers, except the bells, did really well this year.

Picked a few Banana Peppers and Onions yesterday and
put them on the grill with some Sausage. Made a heck of a
Hot Dog.

I've never grilled banana peppers, sounds good on the hotdogs.

couple of my plants are covered with 5-6" peppers.

There awesome on the grill. My plants are still putting g on themselves. The wife pick nearly a 5 gal buckets last week. Been putting up jalapenos for quite some while now.

I'm still getting a few Tabasco and habanero. My cayennes are done, and dead I think, from the frost. I didn't grow banana peppers this year but most years I put a couple out by my mailbox. One sweet banana and one hot banana. You have to remember which is which when you pick a few for cooking.