Sweet pea seeds

[Bramble Lover]

Despite cutting lots of flowers off my sweet peas at the allotment......I have just noticed I am getting seed pods.

Took them all off today but as its my first year of growing them , Im not quite sure what to do now.?

Do I remove the seeds from the pods now and store till required? or do I need to let them dry out?

Any info would be much appreciated. Ta. x

[Digger-07]

You really need to let the pods ripen on the plant until they are almost ready to burst open. They will have turned brown and started to shrivel up by then. Make sure they are properly dry after you have removed the seeds from the pod and store them in a paper bag (not plastic container) somewhere cool and dry until you are ready to plant them.

[Bramble Lover]

Oh bug*ger!! Someone else told me I should remove them as soon as possible or they would stop flowering?

Ok so I suppose the safe bet is to wait until they finish flowering and then let the seeds grow till bursting in their pods?

[moggssue]

Bramble - as long as you want flowers on your sweet peas, cut off the seed pods so that more flowers are produced. When you think they've reached the last flowering, or you've had enough of them at the end of the season I guess (as if!) then leave some pods on the plants to ripen. I let them do their own thing, they ripen on the plant, fall off and seed themselves around the parent plants. Then next spring gently lift them and move to whereever you want them. For some reason, this year most of my self seeded plants turned out to be white flowered?! Odd!

[Bramble Lover]

Ok think Ive got it sussed now.......Thanks

[nosferato]

heres a question for you if your s/p plant only has white flowers does that mean your seeds will only produce plants with white flowers EG i collected seeds from my sweet wills and the flower was red will i only get red flowers from the seeds i have collected
thanks