Drying peppers for seeds

[jeffsturgeon53]

I agree, I pull out all of my seeds, soak them and pull out the floaters and then let them dry naturally with a very small fan circulating air around. This has worked well for me for many years.

[imafan26]

Sometimes I just let the peppers mature on the tree and the peppers will dry naturally as the pods shrivel up. It is easier to seed them and they don't need to be dried as long and they don't get moldy. Store seeds with a little powdered milk in the package. The powdered milk will act as a dessicant or store them in the frig in envelopes inside a ziploc and add a dessicant package or two in the bag. Only take out what seeds you need, you don't want seeds to go from cold to hot locations too often or condensation will build up and cause mold to form. This is a problem I encountered with saved seeds especially when I had a lot of seeds packed into small plastic bags. Now, I have learned to make more packs and not to put so many seeds in one bag.