My peppers are looking pretty sorry now, too much heat and not enough water (North Texas). I had my son watering while I was out of town. But they've had a hard growing season anyway, as has most of the garden.

If you mulch around your plants they'll hold the moisture better. You might want to use some containers of beer at night to catch anything that might be eating them, and yes, you can end up with too many fruits and none of them will grow as large as you'd like. Thin them every so often and cook the little ones you pick early. Garlic pepper tea, or a little neem (if it isn't getting warm--I fried a tree when I sprayed it on in hot weather) might do the trick to keep microscopic and larger predators away.

SRS