Hello to all. I'm a newbie here but been lurking and reading all the posts
that may help me. I have vegetable garden that I enjoy so much. We planted
white corns as they're hard to find in our groceries here (Texas). We have
4 varieties of tomatoes, and also yellow and red bell peppers grown from
seeds. We bought yellow bell peppers from Lowe's and here is my question,
when the bell peppers will turn yellow or red? I read somewhere that if you
harvest them they will turn in their color as they ripen. But it's been
weeks now and they're still green. My sister told me that they will turn red
or yellow in the plant as she saw a plant full of red bell peppers. Is she
right? We left some fruits in the plants but they're still green.
Thanks for the info,
Mira

Hello to all. I'm a newbie here but been lurking and reading all the posts
that may help me. I have vegetable garden that I enjoy so much. We planted
white corns as they're hard to find in our groceries here (Texas). We have
4 varieties of tomatoes, and also yellow and red bell peppers grown from
seeds. We bought yellow bell peppers from Lowe's and here is my question,
when the bell peppers will turn yellow or red? I read somewhere that if you
harvest them they will turn in their color as they ripen. But it's been
weeks now and they're still green. My sister told me that they will turn red
or yellow in the plant as she saw a plant full of red bell peppers. Is she
right? We left some fruits in the plants but they're still green.
Thanks for the info,
Mira
Your sister is right. Bell peppers turn color as they ripen. If picked green
they do not ripen. For the colors except purples leaves them on the plant to
ripen. The purples turn red when they ripen.

On 04 Sep 2004 15:31:26 GMT, (FarmerDill) wrote:

[I guess Mira wrote:]

We bought yellow bell peppers from Lowe's and here is my question,
when the bell peppers will turn yellow or red? I read somewhere that if you
harvest them they will turn in their color as they ripen. But it's been
weeks now and they're still green. My sister told me that they will turn red
or yellow in the plant as she saw a plant full of red bell peppers. Is she
right? We left some fruits in the plants but they're still green.

Your sister is right. Bell peppers turn color as they ripen. If picked green
they do not ripen. For the colors except purples leaves them on the plant to
ripen. The purples turn red when they ripen.

Not quite. Most peppers will eventually turn red on the plant, no
matter what color stages they pass through. Those bred and marketed as
other-than-green turn yellow or red or orange more quickly. As I
recall, Golden Summer was all yellow before it was completely grown --
that is, before it had reached full size.

And peppers *will* continue to ripen and change color off the vine and
in the refrigerater crisper.