On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 02:02:11 -0500, Mark Anderson
wrote:

I'm growing two hot pepper plants and right now they have set a lot of
peppers. I can tell when to pick the tomatoes because they turn red. My
problem is that I think the final peppers are green and they start out
green so it's difficult to tell when they're ready to eat. Is there any
way to do this?

Some peppers are usually picked green - or so it seems, as
we certainly see green hot peppers in the grocery stores.

But I believe they will all eventually ripen to some other
color: unless they rot first.

Peppers (in the humid northeastern USA) tend to rot or be
attacked by insects before they really ripen - at least this
has been my experience. So I generally pick some peppers
green and leave some to ripen - hedging my bets.

If you want to pick them green, you can judge by the size -
if they seem large enough, go ahead.

If I am mistaken about this, will someone please correct me?

Pat