My plant died due to wind or animals, had small ghost peppers on them. How do I store them and will they ripen still?
by beardypoop69
Peppers
My plant died due to wind or animals, had small ghost peppers on them. How do I store them and will they ripen still?
by beardypoop69
7 Comments
I’ve never had one ripen and still be worth a damn when they are that immature. When I’ve lost plants, I’ll take up the unripe peppers and stick them in vinegar to pickle and make peppered vinegar.
I’d go to the store.
You can’t. They may change color, but they won’t ripen. Seeds will stay immature and the taste will stay like spicy grass.
Also, I don’t believe they’re ghost peppers. Looks more like habanero or adjuma to me. But could be because they’re still so little.
Nope
Nothing you can do. Even if they were twice that size, I find that “ripening’ peppers off the plant results in color changes but taste suffers no matter what. Just last night I processed (for frying) quite a few mature (but picked green) sweet peppers that had turned orange/red in the box I stored them in, yet they tasted like green peppers, not red/orange – no sweetness at all. Cut you losses, that’s all you can do. Assuming these are hot peppers (they look like it) they likely won’t even have any heat let alone a good flavor, and without the mother plant to feed them nutrients, there is no way they will develop any taste or heat.
Magic
If you can salvage some still connected to a branch it’s a hard maybe but straight pepper and stem is a hard no unless it hit its breaker point