Stop talking about this! :-) In D.C. it's been so wet this year that my plants are just starting to flower, so I still have quite some time before I harvest my first ones. Sigh, thank Heaven I still have some of Calvin's powder... T wrote: > > > Alas my Jalapenos have ripened ... > > > ... the others are not quite ripe or so I think. Mainly, do they turn > red on the > > vine > > > or do they get their color after the picking? > > My Cayennes were the first to ripen this year, and I think last year as > well. They get red on the plant. > > Tom