Are these AJI peppers past their prime?

[luigiwu]

I finally lugged a food dehydrator home today, the NESCO snackmaster FD-61. Found it in the clearance aisle at Kohls and with the extra F&F 20% came out to $28 before taxes...

So I picked these AJI peppers over two weeks ago... I neglected to make sure they were stored in a single layers, and were left in the big picking bowl/basket. The bottoms ones look like the very right ones, all black. The top ones still look normal (left.) Are the bottom/black ones goners?

Also do you slice up your hot peppers before dehydrating?

I hope the pic attachment works...