RE: [CH] Ripening habs off the plant

T. Matthew Evans (matt.evans@ce.gatech.edu)
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:28:54 -0400 

Rob --

I don't know about ripening them off of the plant, but the best Xni-pec that
I have ever had was on the Yucatan peninsula and was made from nothing more
than green habaneros, red onions, sour lime juice, and salt.  Also, if you
want to preserve some, you can make green pepper jelly or can pickle them.
Good luck.

Matt

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T. Matthew Evans
Geosystems Group
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0355
URL:  www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte964w
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com
[mailto:owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com]On Behalf Of rob
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 9:03 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