Growing peppers can be tricky. They like HEAT, but usually not blazing full sun. Many pepper fruits get ‘sun scald’ for just that reason, unless you make sure that the variety you’re growing has a lot of ‘leaf cover’ to protect the fruits.
You’re doing it right!
Speaking of Peppers - I made Pepper Steak for supper tonight. In my long career of making Pepper Steak, this is either the BEST BATCH EVER - or I’m really hungry today, LOL!
Thanks! — The Cowhorn and Serrano pepper plants I mentioned (moved back to shade) mostly recovered in ~36 hours, not too long after my post about them - remarkable to me. (The damage wasn’t a matter of wilting, the leaves just sort of looked like they were beginning to scald / “burn”. There are only a couple small fruits on them, and those look ok.
Anyway, lesson learned: South of Cape Girardeau, or maybe St. Louis, the recommendations of “full sun for 6-8 hours” are not necessarily correct for many plants. I suspect sun angle. Many sources state there is a loss in production with less than those 6-8 hours of sun, but maybe that’s more likely when the sun angle is low? In any event, since I have few “full sun for 6-8 hours” locations, this works out ok for me. :-)