OMG Turn Effing Red Already!!!

[Oski]

lol. This is getting ridiculous. I cant take it anymore. Im starving over here. Im exhausted. Im gonna lose it.
 
Bhut

 
Jalapeno

 

[megahot]

I know how ya feel! Some of my ButchT pods took just short of 2 months to ripen

 

[Phil]

I know, right??? They seem to take FOREVER!!!!!

 

[smileyguy697]

Mine seem to be doing ok. Waiting sucks tho! Hell I've been waiting since January. Lol

 

[newpeppergrower1105]

Exact same here! First time grower and after 6 months of waiting my pods won't ripen

 

[Al-from-Chile]

Might have been coincidence - but I had peppers sitting there green for 2 months - and hit Em with a good dose of seabird guano - and voila 5 turned red within a week...

Al

 

[Oski]

2 Months? OMG the news just keeps getting worse

 

[Arkennon]

Hmm, Do not feel so bad now, been waiting for my first full size Bhut to ripen for about 6 or 7 weeks now, driving me crazy lol.

 

[Phil]

The one or two turning ripe at a time drives me nuts!

 

[smileyguy697]

The one or two turning ripe at a time drives me nuts!

I know that feeling exactly! I have a couple plants that are kicking them out for me but the others one or two here and there.

 

[peppernovice]

  Waiting is the hardest part of growing peppers. It's so frustrating knowing there is absolutely nothing you can do to expedite the process! At least your pods are big and healthy.
 
Tim

 

[Phil]

  Waiting is the hardest part of growing peppers. It's so frustrating knowing there is absolutely nothing you can do to expedite the process! At least your pods are big and healthy.
 
Tim

 
And then you get impatient and taste an unripe one, and you're underwhelmed...... Wait it out!

 

[Oski]

nothing but green no matter how many times a day i check on them
 

 

[rhm3769]

Just wait until they do start changing, I was checking on mine every five minutes to make sure they were changing and I wasnt just seeing things. ..

 

[Gotrox]

Thai is getting red pods, a Barrackpore has brown ones(?) a Jonah and a Primo have little orange ones, White bullets are still a bit yellow----everything else is green,green,green.
As long as there is something munchable---I can have a little patience.

 

[spicy_echo]

stress the plant to help turn red?

 

[ntenny]

Last year I had to play this waiting game with the aji amarillos as the winter came on, and in the end I lost all but two pods to the cold before they ripened.  It's frustrating when it just tries your patience, but when the delay makes the difference between getting to eat the pods and having to throw them out...!!!
 
Fataliis drive me crazy.  They seem to like to crank out pods early (for a _chinense_) and in numbers, and then they just SIT there.  Every morning I want to yell at them, "What are you *waiting* for?!??!"  Sometimes I do, but I don't think they're listening.
 
-NT

 

[Al-from-Chile]

 
Fataliis drive me crazy.  They seem to like to crank out pods early (for a _chinense_) and in numbers, and then they just SIT there.  Every morning I want to yell at them, "What are you *waiting* for?!??!"  Sometimes I do, but I don't think they're listening.
 
-NT

That's because you talk English with them and not Africaans...



Al

 

[Pepperhead]

First pod sighting for me was June 13th.  I'm now swimming in green pods, without even a hint of red anywhere.

 

[ntenny]

That's because you talk English with them and not Africaans...

Al

Hmm, they're from the CAR, right? So they should understand French. I have this vision of my future self, a cranky old man standing out in the yard in pajamas, terrorizing the neighbors by screaming at the plants in bad schoolboy French. I think this is a worthwhile goal!

-NT