As suggested by underwhelmed, instead of poking holes into the bags, you could add rice to the bags to absorb condensation. After you have your seeds in their little baggies, i suggest putting each of your plastic bags in a brown paper bag to be placed somewhere dry dark and cool, like under your bed, or in between the cracks of a dresser or something like that (just don't forget about them there). I poked lots of holes into the baggies, with ball point pen or exacto knife for ventilation and "insurance" just in case condensation builds up (which could germinate the seeds). So I suggest getting out some plastic bags. You will need to keep your seeds DARK, DRY and COOL. If you are planning on storing your seeds until the planting season, this is what you are going to need to do. One last note, if your going to set up a drying system like the one i did on the plastic tray thing, be sure to use a rock or something heavy to keeping the wind from blowing over! I had a accident with the red bell seeds so now i have even fewer than before xD
#Bell pepper seedlings to sprout crack
You want the seeds to be so dry that they will crack when bent, if they bend they are too wet. So, some alternatives are: setting them outside in the shade, or setting them inside your house under a ceiling fan. Another thing to note is that seeds are damaged once their temperature exceeds about 95 degrees, so setting them out in the sun for too long could increase their temperature past that level. But depending on your region and season, this may take forever, so do your best at getting your seeds DRY.
Since its Summer, and since its hot and dry here in California, this processes happened pretty quickly. So what i did, was set all my seeds out in the sun for about 1 hour. To prepare your seeds for storage, they need to be dehydrated because they are going to be very moist, coming straight from the pepper, which isn't good for storing them, they could mold or pregerminate. The red bell pepper I collected seeds from didn't have near as many as the green pepper. In my pictures you can compare the amount i got from the red peppers verses the green ones. Another note, some varieties may have tons of seeds while some may have very little. The only reason i brought it up is that many gardeners and books say that floating pepper seeds wont germinate. So you can always try this out for yourself if you want, and if it works for you, great! But if it doesn't, don't doubt your seeds, and continue as normal. But I question this test's accuracy because I've had many batches of seeds without a single sinker which had seeds that germinated. Finally, you can either strain or pick out the good seeds. Then slowly add water to the cup, submerging all the seeds ( I did it vice versa in the pictures but you should do it as above for best results ) The test says that the good seeds will sink to the bottom of the glass, while the dud seeds will remain floating at the top. First, take out a glass/cup and fill it with your seeds. But if it works for you, then thats great, but if it doesnt work. Heres a test for checking if you have dud seeds, but in my experience it hasn't seemed to be accurate. 2 green bells I seeded filled a glass about a third of the way up with seeds! So odds are you are going to end up with a lot of seeds, probably more than you need, so when you plant, you can afford to plant extras in case you have some dud seeds. I was dealing with 3 different variaties of peppers so if you are too, then next, you need to prepare some containers for putting the seeds into, i used some cups. First, you need to get a knife and chop of the top of the pepper and remove the core, which contains the seeds.
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