Big jim vs Sandia

[Father'sDaughter]

Originally Posted by mdvpc

New Mexico green chile is to be picked green. Very little of it is left to turn red in the Hatch-Las Cruces area. 99.999% of the chile that is harvested and sold there is green.

Thanks! I had been wondering about that. When I started looking into how to prep them for freezing I watched a few videos from the Hatch festival, and they all showed green peppers being roasted. That's why I went ahead and picked them all green rather than risk them to frost.

I'm growing Numex Big Jim again this year, but now also have seeds Anaheim, and in the MMMM swap I got seeds for Numex 6. I will have room for four plants and had originally planned on doing all Numex Big Jim. Now that I have the other seeds, I'm not sure.