On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:53:49 -0400, Penelope Periwinkle
wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:07:49 GMT, Sue
wrote:

I've grown green bells in the past, but this is my first year trying
red and yellow bells. I have lots of peppers, but they're all green -
so far. My problem is that I didn't label them and don't remember
which are which. So, I don't know which I can pick now and which
should sit on the plant waiting to turn color. There is *no* hint of
color (other than green, of course) on any of them.

Green bell peppers are just unripe red, yellow, orange, etc
peppers.

Are you saying that they are the same plant? Why do they sell them as
separate plants?

If you had left the peppers you grew in the past on the
plant, they would have ripened up just like the ones you're
growing right now.

I've never had this happen with the greens I've grown in the past. If
I didn't pick them, they didn't change color, they just went bad.


Ripe (red, yellow, etc.) bell peppers in grocery stores are more
expensive than the greens because it takes longer to grown them,
more things can go wrong during the ripening process, and their
shelf life is shorter than unripe bell peppers.

That makes sense.


The uncivilized nature of eating unripe peppers when one has a
choice of letting them ripen is a rant...er discussion for
another time.

G
Sue



Penelope