Pepper advice

Hi friends.

These are my ajecito peppers. Others might know them by a different name but they are a man ingredient to make things like sofrito. Last year I had a huge problem where I had about 8 plants and barely had any peppers to show for it. Most of my flowers would just fall off.

In general I do try to self pollinate using a q-tip and have tiger bloom that I tried using last year but nothing seemed to work.

I’m likely still months away from my first buds/flowers so trying to get advice early on what to do so I have a killer harvest this summer.

Thanks!