[CH] Ripening habs off the plant
Dave Farrow (DFarrow@pioneermetal.com)
Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:25:49 -0500
When I ripped my hab plants out of the garden due to an early freeze warning
(here in Northeast Wis.) I had quite a few unripe fruits left. I simply put
the root ball (what was left of it) into an old plastic ice crean container
and put in about an 1"-1 1/2" of water and placed into a warm closet. I just
made sure that the plant roots never got completely dry and I ripened well
over 3/4s of my green fruit. The rest is still on there and gradually
turning. You may want to use a warm corner of the garage as leaf loss is
massive as you might expect. But hey it beats losing all them habs.
-----Original Message-----
From: rob [mailto:robhuns1@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:03 PM
To: chile-heads@globalgarden.com
Subject: [CH] Ripening habs off the plant
Hi everyone,
I used to be a member of the list some time ago and am now returning
with a question I hope someone can answer.
I have about 10 pounds of green(unripe) red savina habs. I had to pick
them since we had a frost warning here in SE Pennsylvania. Does anyone
know how or if I can ripen these peppers now that they have been
picked?? If not I would appreciate some suggestions as to what I can
do with them. I would really like to do something with these since I
had some problems in the early part of the season that really hurt the
production in august/september. A hail storm stripped most of the
leaves off my plants in early June and then when the new growth
started a neighbor decided to poison everything in his yard with
massive amounts of herbicide and the wind carried the poison into my
yard and affected the new growth adversly. The peppers came back and
even surpassed my past efforts as far as size and pod count now...I
have twice as many peppers off of half as many plants....unfortunately
they are all green. Any help or suggestions would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Best regards,
rob mailto:robhuns1@earthlink.net