Green Unripe Chillies - Best Advice

[Cyclecar 24]

Following earlier advice post disaster with my plants earlier this year, my fresh chilli plants did take root, and grow well in the greenhouse. Alas, owing to the earlier problems I did start very late. As a result, I have harvested a fair number of ripe ones (two varieties), but am left with a sizeable quantity of 'green' fruits.

 

So I have harvested them, and cleared my greenhouse. T'internet advises ripening them off the plant, and 'spoofing' them with a ripening banana as with unripe tomatoes. Does that work - should they be in a warm place? Should I make efforts to dry them at the same time?

 

Lesson learned! I grow from seed so will start again next year. Best time to start - late March?

 

Advice appreciated. I followed it regarding the tomatoes (Alicante and Ailsa), and enjoyed a good tasty crop.

[Thorpist 72]

You can over winter chillies if you can provide a frost free environment.

[Victor Meldrew 33]

I tried overwintering one year but found the plants got inundated with greenfly so I ended up chucking them anyway.  Like the OP I always grow from seed, sowing late Feb indoors cos' they need a long season to get to fruiting. 

 

I grow the 'Apache' variety and they're so prolific you only need one plant to give you enough medium hot fruits to last a full year. In fact I've recently chucked a load from the 2019 batch. We use them fresh in the growing season and then freeze the rest, they're just as good from the freezer.

[Victor Meldrew 33]

Sowed mine yesterday. Bit early maybe but I just couldn't wait to get something growing. Bottom heat usually works so I stand the tray on the lid of my tropical fish tank.