Fussing about pepper and chillie ripening

[marchogaeth]

I have quite a few reasonable sized peppers - all green in the poly. If you were me, would you just eat them/freeze them or keep hoping they would ripen. They are probably a bit too close together so not a lot of sun is getting through even on good days. Night temperatures have been down to three this week. I'm thinking if I took the bigger ones off the smaller ones might plump up, too.

I also have some chillie plants covered in chillies (bite size) which are a sort of luminous, white green (They were a gift and the person who grew them lost all hers and doesn't know what she planted!!). Will they ripen on the plant or should I just start eating/freezing them, too?

I can bring things inside but our dark cottage is probably a less suitable place for plants that the poly.

As ever I'm twitching because I want to get other stuff in beds but I am being good and just letting the tomatoes do their stuff! Oh but there is so much soil round them I could be planting in!

[rustylady]

Peppers and chillies can be eaten green, but obviously they taste different to the ripened version. If you like green peppers, cut them and use them.

[marchogaeth]

Peppers and chillies can be eaten green, but obviously they taste different to the ripened version. If you like green peppers, cut them and use them.

I'd rather they were red - which I should have explained.

[Kaiya]

I was wondering this today as well. Mine are in a blowaway. The chillis I'm happy as green, but it's the first time I've successfully grown sweet peppers (even more so as the blowaway blewover one evening and the slugs ate part of two peppers overnight) and I'd really like a vaguely not green one!

I googled a bit and read that they can be ripened indoors like tomatoes (thought perhaps not as successfully), so my plan is to leave them on the plant until the plant is hit by frost, then bring them in and stick them with a banana. No idea if this is going to work

I've also heard of the 'pull up the tomato plant and hang it upside down to set the fruit' method but never tried it even with tomatoes.

Could your white chillis be ripe already? Not all varieties are red... I thought unripe chillis were usually proper green like this forum's colour; any other colour suggests ripeness? EDIT google again tells me that some chillis start off white, so that's of no use at all!

[binley100]

I've brought peppers home from the lottie that are 75% red and they have finished off on a sunny windowsill but the more green than that doesn't seem to work ..I've still got stuff ripening in the lottie gh but haven't a clue what temp its going down to at night .........*puts min/max thermometer on C******** wish list

[Two_Sheds]

I put my chilli plants indoors on a sunny south windowsill to ripen. That was probably 3 weeks ago, and so far only one has turned red.
The ones I left in the gh are still very very green.

[northepaul]

How about with a banana, like you do with tomatoes?

[marchogaeth]

How about with a banana, like you do with tomatoes?

The mind boggles! Good job I know what you mean!

[Jelliebabe]

All chilli's turn red eventally! Even my Purple Gusto have turned! I would cut your losses - I don't think they will go a lot more now.