collard seed

Harvested from my blue collard plant. I only gathered a fraction of the dry seed pod. These look nice, dry and mature

there's more that seemed to only have one mature seed, or looked musty.

I broke open and sorted the seed separately. Inside of the split-open pods there's little pockets left where the seeds had formed. The seeds grow in two rows down the length of each pod.

This handful is from the nice, mature pods

and this from the smaller and dingy-looking ones.

After sifting out the chaff and smaller, deformed or immature seed (there were plenty in each set of pods), I put them in separate seed packets in the fridge, marked accordingly. Curious to see if I get healthier plants from the nicer seed pods, but I'll have to remember to plant some from each group and label the seedlings to tell them apart.