I think since I am not very good with seeds, that I will let them dry and put them in the frig. for 3 months. Plant them after the holidays in my little plastic containers and sit them outside until they sprout in the Spring...hopefully. My pods are more round than long just now. They seem to be just forming. Yet some are getting light tan on the ends. My one old shrub had almost no flowers this year and it has no seed pods forming. The weather just did it in this past winter. The bush is beautiful, no flowers or pods though.