well, i chose the path of least effort, and spread the green/purple/orange chiles all over the living room...hoping for a bushel of ripe peppers, but expecting a ton of rotten chile mush... it worked, my friends, it worked!...ma nature immediately set about turning them red, and each time i pass thru the living room, there are still more that have turned a beautiful orange (go vols!) or ruby red... i am culling the ripe ones out and freezing (most of) them, in anticipation of a long, cold winter...at this rate, they all should have ripened by next weekend... bill The ultimate game show will be the one where somebody gets killed at the end. -- Chuck Barris, creator of "The Gong Show"