[CH] a question about puriras...
bill jernigan (billjernigan@iqonline.net)
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:01:17 -0400
last year, i gave a friend a dozen or so seeds from the puriras i brought
home from indiana...he planted them, and ten survived...he's not a
chile-head, or even a gardener, but wanted to try growing some just for fun...
all summer, he has been picking the ripe ones and giving most of them to
me...last nite, he showed up with a BIG sack with about twenty pounds of
unripe puriras...they range from light green to bright orange...
question is, will they ripen if i just leave them lying around?...i'll need
most every horixontal surface in this little apartment if they will, but
i'm willing to sacrifice <grin>...
second, if their little thick skins will cause them to rot before they
ripen, how's sauce made from the green/yellow/purple/orange ones?...cajohn
said he didn't like sauce made from green savinas, but will these work?...
any other ideas?...drying?...freezing (in hopes that a cure for unripe
puriras will be found at some point in the future)?...handing them out to
the kids on halloween?...(hold the flames - i would never do
that...besides, as scott contractor pointed out, orange and chocolate habs
are a whole lot more halloweenish)...
bill
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit
in my name at a Swiss Bank.
- Woody Allen