Odds are pretty low but hey, try a few, lady luck may be with you.

Just make green sauce. It's goooooooodddddd.....

Dig up the plants and bring them inside. You don't need to pot them up properly, but stick them in a pot with some mulch so you can keep the roots damp. After a couple of weeks the pods will color up. I did this a couple of years ago with two Bhuts. I got a lot of red pods. Don't know for sure, but I'd guess the seeds are far more likely to be viable than when the pods were green.

Tom

If the green pods turn color after picking and keeping on the counter, then the seeds should be mostly viable. I would pick the ones with some suggestion of color.
After a certain stage, when a pod reaches its maturity, the ripening is an internal process and the seeds get their nutrient from the fruit, not the plant.

Seysonn

As an experiement, I recently tried this with some produce-stand cubanelles. The fruit was not completely red - I figured that it started ripening while it was sitting in the bin.

On 11/06/14 I sowed the seeds in potting mix, three seeds to a cell, with the cells in a covered container. The container was kept at about 80F. I sowed two cells of cubanelles, and two cells of green bells. As of today, 11/13/14, both cells of the cubanelles have sprouted. So far, two two seeds have sprouted in one cell, and one seed in the other. No activity on the bells.

Hope this helps...

Mike-

As an experiement,...

Sorry, not sure how the above got double posted

This post was edited by MikeBiondo on Thu, Nov 13, 14 at 16:43