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When are they hotter, ripe or unripe?

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MangoChilli

This is probably a stupid question, but when are chillis at their hottest, when they are still unripe and green, or when they are fully ripe (whatever colour that may be), or does it vary from variety to variety?
 
I know that the taste tends to change, and some have higher sugar content when fully ripe, but want to know about the heat levels.
 
From what I know, just as it is just getting ripe is the hottest. As it finishes being ready to pick, there is a chemical change and it gets just a little sweeter, as opposed to hotter. Tom
 
I keep them until they are fully ripe. They taste improves and they don't really lose any heat. At least I think they don't. Capsaicin doesn't degrade very easily. I've had a half rotten Moruga pod lying outside through the winter, and in the spring, I touched the bugger with my bare hands (looked like a bugger too). I can just say it still had it's mojo.
 
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