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Freeze watch in effect from tomorrow night to Saturday. I hope I get time to harvest tomorrow. Thanks I'm going to try the paper bag method.

A lot of pods on my plants have not turned from green yet. I've noticed since it got colder they are doing everything slower. I don't think most of them will ripen on the plant before frost. If it comes down to me harvesting green pods, is it possible to get them to change color after the...

Ok they are not ripe and they are in the gound. It may continue to rain through the week. I guess I'll let them ripen and save the parts I can.

More so on my orange hab plants. They have black lines in them that split open in spots. Its been raining a lot. Im acually going to lose most of my pods to this. Do I need to remove the cracked ones or leave them on the plant

Thank you for the info. I have read it and will re read to understand better.

Now I'm aware if you remove a pepper from a plant the plants energy is used elsewhere. My question... you know the first pods that form on the plant... well the first ones I left to ripen fully. What I have noticed is all the pods forming on the top branches that showed up after the first group...

Thanks guys. I've been wondering about my butch t plants. There's 2 and they have very different pods. Maybe the seed were butch t crossed.

Thanks I looked at my pods and decided to leave them till the weekend. its supposed to warm back up in a day or two, so I'll let them ripen a bit more. I just added a couple stakes to combat the wind. About covering. These plants are in a raised bed garden certain plants are about 4 feet tall...

Thank you I'll post back with results of whatever I do.

I'm on the verge of my biggest harvest yet, possibly today. I will freeze a good majority so I can get the true flavor of each variety. I know when thawed they become soggy but I was wondering can chiles go from frozen to pickled in a jar? Also can someone tell me a simple pickling method...

Its getting cool fast here in NH. Tonight is supposed to drop to 45f. Does that call for a harvest even if things aren't fully ripe?

These plants are in a raised bed so covering would be the only way. It must be the rain we have gotten. I hope it dries up a bit. Thanks

I've noticed some of my orange hab pods on the plants are forming lines in the pods skin. I'm wondering if that means I should have picked them already?

I had frozen some of my bolivian rainbows. Yesterday I moved some frozen ones into my jar in the fridge to thaw so they were ready to eat. Today I have noticed they are mushy. I was hoping they would have thawed back to "normal". How long do they stay fresh in this mushy state? Any way to thaw...

well my pods are getting to a point where im going to need to harvest a reasonable amount of peppers. nothing too crazy, but enough that im not going to want to leave them in the fridge. i figure they can go a solid week in the fridge, but if i harvest more then i will use in a week how do you...