I've succesfully grown (something of a feat in itself where I'm concerned!)
some Jalapeno peppers, the seeds were sent to me by Rusty Spokes who used to
frequent this group...the plants are now 2 feet tall and heavy with fruit,
each one having 20 or more long green (and hopefully juicy and hot) peppers,
my question is this: how do I know when they are ready? - I don't think they
turn red, and I tasted on about 2 weeks ago and there was no fire in it at
all - it tasted similar to any capsicum type pepper.
Also how can I store them? - I once pickled some about 10 years ago and also
dried some from the same harvest, the pickled ones had no fire when used -
the dried ones did but no 'chilli flavour' if that makes sense, I want to
preserve both if that's possible, how do I do it?


TIA