indoor ripening pods indoors (cut branches)

[sinensis]

if the season's done and you don't want to overwinter plants and bring (pest filled?) soil indoors, you can try just bringing branches in and keeping them in water.
 
i tried it, and it seems to work.
 

 
this branch has been indoors for 3 weeks? 4 weeks? something like that
that's in the basement with very little light.
 
most of those pods weren't ripe originally.
 
the leaves shriveled up pretty quick, and most of them fell off. but the branch still looks good and green. looks alive.

 

[saiias]

if the season's done and you don't want to overwinter plants and bring (pest filled?) soil indoors, you can try just bringing branches in and keeping them in water.
 
i tried it, and it seems to work.
 

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this branch has been indoors for 3 weeks? 4 weeks? something like that
 
most of those pods weren't ripe.
 
the leaves shriveled up pretty quick, and most of them fell off. but the branch still looks good and green. looks alive.

I was about to post the same.

Thanks for all the great gyan here, i was able to get my pods to ripe even after I trimmed the branches. I hung them in my garage and they started to ripen. When I trimmed, all the pods were green.

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[sinensis]

i wonder if the water helps or not?

 

[saiias]

I wonder the same..

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[CaneDog]

I did the hang upside down in garage thing with a few loaded aji limon plants a couple years ago, but the pods softened before ripening. Figured it was because the garage was too cold, as even individual pods I bring into the house to ripen tend to do better. 
 
Glad to see both of yours appear to be doing great.  Curious what your ambient temps are - ?

 

[sinensis]

the water in the cup is 65°F/18°C.
 
there's a heater on the ceiling above the branch, so air temp could be a bit warmer

 

[The_NorthEast_ChileMan]

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I didn't use water......
 
 

 

 
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[DWB]

i wonder if the water helps or not?

 
I've put branches like that in a pitcher of water, given them south window sun and changed the water once in a while. They grew leaves, flowers, tiny pods along with roots and were more than ready for planting in the spring.
 
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/64048-silly-plants/

 

[YAMracer754]

+1 on doing this. Started doing it in middle of season when plants would grow too tall past stakes and would break. Learned that it works wonderful for some and at least average for the ones not so hot with the technique. Have a kung pao right now actually in the house mostly dark:
Was completely green end of season before I pulled it

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[sinensis]

what do you guys think of the results? i don't think they taste as good as pods ripened on real plants in light.
not as flavorful and maybe not as hot either

 

[Powelly]

Doesn't fruit naturally ripen anyway? If you get an unripe apple, pear or banana from the supermarket it gets ripe in a week

 

[sinensis]

fair point, but in my very limited experience, it seemed like they dry out or go bad/soft before ripening when just left on the counter.
 
it would be nice to see some side-by-side tests of green pods:

• bare (removed from branches)
• on severed branches, without water cup
• on severed branches, with water cup

ideally next to each other in same environment (same temp, same amount of light).
test would compare ripening time and flavor/firmness once ripe.