Hello. New here. Well I planted my first garden (raised bed) this year and several varieties of peppers which I will list. I'm just starting to get into this and have found a lot of useful info here. One of my main questions though is ripening and what all of you recommend since you have way more experience than I. I have several hot pepper plants that are producing very little now because they are still loaded with peppers that are still ripening. So I'm just waiting for them to turn red. My question is would there be anything wrong with picking the fruit once it's achieved full size and ripening off the plant so that it can start to produce more??? If no, what's the best way? In a bag in the dark, do I need to add something like a tomato or apple piece like I've read with other things because helps it to ripen faster???
I would like to eventually have enough where I can use the peppers fresh or experiment with drying them out and crushing to make sauces etc but they take so long to turn colors on the plant.
Here is what I have planted right now pepper wise:
Giant Marconi's, 5 Color Marbles, Firecracker Chili's, Sweet Crimsons, Peter Peppers, Thai Hot Sun's, Hungarian Hot Wax, and Several Aji Amarillo pepper plants from trip to Peru. They are all doing great, but am really curious on this ripening part and look forward to trying some different varieties next. Thanks
Carito
I would like to eventually have enough where I can use the peppers fresh or experiment with drying them out and crushing to make sauces etc but they take so long to turn colors on the plant.
Here is what I have planted right now pepper wise:
Giant Marconi's, 5 Color Marbles, Firecracker Chili's, Sweet Crimsons, Peter Peppers, Thai Hot Sun's, Hungarian Hot Wax, and Several Aji Amarillo pepper plants from trip to Peru. They are all doing great, but am really curious on this ripening part and look forward to trying some different varieties next. Thanks
Carito