[CH] cayenne's green or red?

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Alex

In Dewitts "The Pepper Garden"

There is one small paragraph called
"Fruit Load"

This is dependent on root ball, stem and foliage.

A plant will produce just so many fruit,  then it will start aborting new
blossoms,

Every time you pick a pod, this changes the fruit load and then more will
form..

This then makes a choice of more green fruit  or less ripe ones.

L.B.






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Just wondering, might that be so they can get more fruit from a single
planting?  That is, instead of letting a plant ripen its pods and then
harvesting, do they get more fruit if they keep picking green, and the plant
keeps producing more?

A side guess, is it easier to handle and ship unripe peppers, too?  Some of
the pods I see in the grocery, like serranos, are green with an occasional
patch of orange on the ones old enough to have hard, dry stems.


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