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Is this actually accurate?
I know green capsicums are generally unripe but my understanding was that the different varieties start as green, then will ripen to one of red, yellow, or orange depending on variety. Not go through them all like a traffic light.
That’s why you get mixed green/red etc, but you don’t see ones that are four different colours as ot ripens unevenly.
For some varieties yes, such as the bell pepper. You can get green, yellow, orange and red bell peppers, which are all just different maturity levels.
Black peppers (old world) are very different from new world capsicum plants. They are all called peppers because they are hot, I guess. Sort of like maze being called corn, which is just Latin for grain. Shows a decided lack of imagination.
Same with limes ripening to become lemons
Some authors disagree.
what’s the third stage? a tomato?
Lime > Limon > Lemon
> Clemontine
While mostly true, this is also mostly a Bell Pepper thing here with distinct stages, with Bells bred to sort of stall out at specific color stages. Scotch Bonnet also, in my experience, does the full green, neon green, yellowish green, neon orange, red stages. Each stage has a different flavor (IMO orange is the best of both worlds, sweet with floral and bitter notes from the green stage).
Though, most peppers are green and then turn red, or green, orange for a day or two, and then get to red. Plenty will turn red from the top down, or starting at the side. Everything in my garden this year was green to red.
Actually, the different colors come from harvesting peppers experiencing different levels of embarrassment 😳 ☺️
Are you LAUGHING at the peppers??? Are you trying to make them turn beet red???
I can’t help it, they’re so cute!
Paprika
Wait till she hears about dried chili pepper (it’s dried in sun light).
