Padron pepper picking

What is the ideal size to pick my Padron peppers?

From looking on the www it seems to be 2" but it would be great to hear from someone who has grown them.

Oh wow, I have just eaten my first Padron pepper. Grilled in a little olive oil until skin blistered and then sprinkled with sea salt  devine. How have I lived without?

I really enjoyed them in Spain so have grown 3 plants from seed. Harvested my first crop last night. I waited until I had approx 10 peppers to harvest. A big mistake!!

The largest ones were approx 10cm and nearly blew my head off. My wife could not eat them. The small ones at 5cm were fine. We now know for the future. A few at a time at 5cm is the way to go. Great things to grew because of the difficulty in buying them. Carrots are cheap in any supermarket but try finding Padron peppers!

Yes they are a lucky dip regarding heat intensity but that's why I like them.  Very nice stuffed with cheesy mash, coated in egg white and fried.

most peppers can be overwintered on a windowsill 

cheese makes everything better    

It certainly does.

I treated my peppers really roughly last year............I dug up from the greenhouse border, trimmed roots so they would fit a midsize pot, and juggled a bit of compost round them.
I didn't prune them then, as they had a few fruits on, just plonked'em on the table in front of spare bedroom window and left them. After all the fruits ripened I barely watered them and pruned them by about half.

In about Feb I started to water a bit more as they started to grow, then changed to weak tomato food, by the time they could go out into the greenhouse they were already fruiting 

I roughly did the same, mine stay indoors all year on south facing windowsills once they stop producing I give them a trim but they stay active most of the year round.

This thread made me go and cook some Padrons - If the Russian Roulette nickname is anything to go by I got shot every single time !!!

Waiting for my mouth to cool down....