harvesting my season harvest

[chilehunter]

I havent visited the harvest section much because I havent had enough time to visit all the threads on this forum plus not being (home)around my chile plants, sorry.

not much compared to some others here but plenty for me & giving away alot.
chiles are fatalii, jam. hot cho., peach hab, red hab, lemon drop, aji omni color, red/orange thai, datil, red/yellow 7 pot, trindad scorpion, pasilla bajio.

heres what they've harvested for me (the frozen ones which I had to seperate them) the bottom & upper left are fresh from being ripe or the winds/frost covering - breaking off branches
a couple days ago.

heres what I harvested today, our season is pretty much done, cold wet temps. though I left 26 plants (growing) to hopefully get more ripe pods & less plants for them to take care of LOL.
but most likely they'll be harvested within 1 week, & giving away 6 plants cuz someone wants them (so no harvesting from them)
in the bags are plants to let others deal with picking pods off.

heres the genocide, I may get reprehended for showing this....but what ya gonna do with the unwanted ? cuz if I really wanted them I could of got at least another 5 gallon pail of chiles. but I have plenty of unripe pods & I wanted ripe pods for making ripe powders.

 

[Sydtunes]

what are you going to do to get all those unripe ones to ripen?

 

[smariotti]

Great harvest! I love seeing pictures of the great varieties everyone is pulling in. Then I get sad when I go out to my own garden and come in with a couple of peppers in one hand.

Next season will be huge, and in the meantime I can look at all the great peppers being pulled in on here and then see what the Ozzies are doing in the offseason!

Are those datils in there? I've grown to love datils a lot.

 

[millworkman]

Looks like a hell of a harvest, congrats. sucks about haveing to lose plants overwinter though.

 

[Pepperfreak]

Holy smokes Batman!

That is a great harvest. I am also curious whats up with all the green pods and why are there plants with pods on them in trash bags? Kind of seems unholy...

 

[pepperfever]

Ahh such a shame! Has anyone told you to try putting the green peppers in a bag with a banana or an apple and see how many ripen? You might be surprised. I saved a lot of peppers that way last year. I used paper bags.

 

[chilehunter]

what are you going to do to get all those unripe ones to ripen?

Has anyone told you to try putting the green peppers in a bag with a banana or an apple and see how many ripen?

yes I know about the banana in paper bag method, & yes I'm doing this for what i'm keeping. dont care what others are gonna do with what I give'em but I tell them about that method.

Then I get sad when I go out to my own garden and come in with a couple of peppers in one hand.
Are those datils in there? I've grown to love datils a lot.

dont be sad, you also gotta take into consideration howmany plants people plant or location (temp wise) & yes theres some datils in the pics.

sucks about haveing to lose plants overwinter though.

it is what it is, unless you overwinter the roots.

I am also curious whats up with all the green pods and why are there plants with pods on them in trash bags? Kind of seems unholy...

why all the green pods ?
shitting growing season, bad spring/late summer/not great summer & fall. plants produced alot of pods but not many ripened & took forever to ripen.

the plants in the trash bags were given to other people & told'em to deal with cutting the pods off themselves (not thrown away)
the pile of plants are thrown away, from all the plants/pods in the pile (now) you could get at least (2) 5 gallon pails full of chiles, though many are smaller size (for that certain chile) I picked whats worth keeping, if I had less plants I would of kept all the pods.


I picked another half 5 gallon pail of fataliis, 1 gallon of 7 pot/scorps, 1/3 gallon of datils, over half 5 gallon pail of pasillas. yesterday





you can still use green chiles, they still have the heat & damn near the same taste but not fully. & I'm not 100% sure the pods change flavor off the plant being forced to ripe color by bananas in bag ?

 

[OldManNinja1912]

nice harvest chilehunter