Different kind of pepper seed question than other post.

meszaros9 Fort Myers, FL(Zone 10a) Sep 22, 2007

My MIL just brought me some Hungarian Hot peppers 2 of them are red and there are 3 others that started turning red and the rest are all green.

Are the red ones the only ones i can get the seeds from???
Do peppers continue to ripen?
Thanks
Michelle

Post #4003507

Quote

melody Benton, KY(Zone 7a) Sep 26, 2007

Your best chance of viable seeds are the ones that have turned red. There will be a few seeds that will germinate in the less ripe peppers, but there will be more under-developed ones. The ones that are just turning may be decent....but peppers have so many seeds, the ones that are completely red should provide plenty.

The peppers will not ripen seeds after they are picked. (green bell peppers in the supermarket are just the un-ripe version of other colored, and they do not ripen any more)

Post #4020861

Quote

meszaros9 Fort Myers, FL(Zone 10a) Sep 28, 2007

Thank you... I will try them out.

Thanks again.
Michelle