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Originally Posted by peebee
Forgot to add: I've never eaten them red before, do they get sweeter when red?
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They do indeed. The skin becomes hard however, and they are full of hard seeds (most of the weight will be seeds since the walls are very thin) . They really are mostly for picking green before the seeds grow to full size. Can be used for frying, grilling, pickling. Quite productive in numbers but in weight the padron vastly outproduces them with much stronger growing plants (same uses, different shape, stronger and a bit more bitter flavour).