Green pods at the end of season?

[Habanero Fellow]

My question is what do you all do with all the green pods at the end of the season that didn't have a chance to ripen yet.  I'll probably have 10 or more gallons of unripen pods at the end of the season.  The final podding of my plants are so loaded that the branches are nearly weighted to the ground.

 

[oldsalty]

I'm with you on that one. I'm thinking of using for fermenting as heat.

 

[PexPeppers]

I normally just compost them

 

[Thegreenchilemonster]

I smoked a bunch of unripe lemon drop/pineapple/limon pods a couple days ago with apple and pecan woods. The powder actually came out pretty good. Not a huge difference in flavor from the smoked powder of the ripe ones.

 

[oldsalty]

I smoked a bunch of unripe lemon drop/pineapple/limon pods a couple days ago with apple and pecan woods. The powder actually came out pretty good. Not a huge difference in flavor from the smoked powder of the ripe ones.

Great idea!!! That's a perfect solution I wonder how that would do for fermenting.

 

[Genetikx]

I'm trying this out for the first time in the garage. Only selected the plants I really liked and had a good amount of green pods.

 

[Habanero Fellow]

I have 50+ plants loaded with pods that may not ripen before frost.

 

[tsurrie]

I too have about 30-40 plants still struggling to ripe a lot of pods... It's raining a lot and is quite cold... what do you recommend? Smoking, waiting to get a few more ripe pods or just  making a large amount of green sauce ?

 

[Habanero Fellow]

Here in Arkansas, I'm hoping for at least a couple more weeks before frost.  But the weather can change quickly at times.  A couple of weeks may give me enough time to have most of the bigger pods to ripen.