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Something has been eating the leaves, but the plant is doing really well! This came from a seed from a pepper from the store - it was labeled as either an "ancient" or a "twisty" pepper.
This is the biggest pepper on the biggest plant and is around 6 inches long! (all I had with me for scale was my hand, but later remembered that none of you know how big my hand is ๐) It's in one of the half-barrel sized planters with another of the same kind, and 2 tabasco pepper plants.
Looks like #4 on this site: https://greatist.com/eat/cayenne-habanero-poblano-serrano-know-your-chile-peppers#basque-fryer the damage to the leaves looks like snails. If you put a ring of crinkly tinfoil at the base of the plant it might deter them.
It does look similar. Honestly, I'm not much of a pepper person - I grew some seeds as both a challenge to myself, and for the family to have a kind of pepper they like. Can I grow them? Yes. Should I grow them? This time was also yes ๐
Thanks for the tip about the tinfoil - between that and a slug trap, it seems like the damage should at least be mostly mitigated.