Super hot....weather that is.

[MarianneW]

I'm surprised that you still have aphids. Mine all die at about 105. But, it gets much much hotter at my house so that's probably what does it.

[Kikaida]

Yeah, last year I had no peppers and no aphid issues with the tomatoes or other plants. We've had a couple weeks straight of 100+ with no affect on them.
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This is a link to the exact specs that I made my buckets. Didn't follow his planting instructions as that seems real harsh on the young plants. But as I've been reading, peppers like to dry out every now and then so I let that occur and it seems to be doing ok. Not as many nice pods as you have but working out the kinks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWkg5ttOm5I

[Gerardo]

I've got a Marconi and a Pimiento de Padron residing in 1 gal clay pots in a deep saucer. I agree, it's real cool to see them handle punishing conditions.

Some appear not to enjoy the wet feet, so trial and error.

[dmforcier]

One gal. pot is kinda small for this late in the season. Feet are cramped and that small of a soil mass will heat quickly in high air temps. Fortunately an un-glazed clay pot will allow evaporation on its surface to cool the contents, but it also uses water at a remarkable rate. If you have standing water in the saucer to compensate, then the lower part of the root ball is saturated (how deeply depends on the soil mix) and that part of the root mass will drown.

Suggest a larger pot with shallow saucer.

[Gerardo]

And even with those obstacles they're still doing well, I'll snap some pics so you can see them.

The saucer is a #10, and the clay pot has a small footprint that tapers up and out.