I pruned all the newer flowering branches off the Tabasco plants a few days before I made my last pepper post, and it had the desired effect: Older fruits started ripening. Harvested everything that was fully red or deep orange this AM, and it wasn't much. Put two 5 oz bottles of pepper vinegar up, then put maybe a 16 oz batch into ferment with some garlic. So these take some time to pick as they are smaller, but the flip side is they come right off the stem and cap so there's less work prepping them afterwards. Anyway, my first ferment of the season is underway...