Re: [CH] Super Cayenne Ripening Question
GarryMass@aol.com
Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:11:12 EDT
In a message dated 09/15/00 9:07:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Dustymllr@aol.com writes:
<< harvesting our hot peppers when they are full size and ripening
them on the window sill. We've been successful in doing this until now >>
Debbie and Marty,
Widow sill ripening is no more than an effort to sunburn a now dead fruit or
vegetable. Apples, pears, and peppers ripen in the dark, as do tomatoes.
Your success is related to the hours of darkness on the windowsill. Your
Super Cayennes are spoiling in the sunlight.
Put the near ripe peppers in a brown paper bag (or a small drawer) with a
ripe apple and roll the top tightly closed. The peppers will turn color and
remain crisp.
Same goes for not-quite-ripe tomatoes, put 'em in a bag with an apple and
roll the top tightly. It only takes one or two days for nearly ripe fruits
to make the change.
And no, the apple doesn't give the peppers or tomatoes "the idea," it's the
gasses from the apple that do what all the windersills in the world can't do,
ripen fruit in the dark. Well, except at night.
Gareth the ChileKnight