Hey Karen, > Hi, friends. It was sobering to be called a "lurker" by CaJohn... Compared to you, I'm a "super-lurker" I guess! > Sounds like a hard freeze tomorrow night--guess the mulatos hanging in dozens > outdoors won't get a chance to really ripen, altho we don't know what a ripe > one looks like... Any advice? Mulatos I've grown tend to be dark glossy green and ripen to a red-brown, sometimes almost black. Got to go to the garden today and check my chiles. Still got time here before it gets cold (I hope). David "Zeb" Cook