"......you could keep the seed pod dry by putting a can over the top of it." Yes, you can do this but first you need to squeeze the water out of the pod. That is an old trick that seems to work. One issue that we have noticed is that in the cooler weather, the seed pods do not ripen very much if at all. I just harvested a bunch of really nice looking pods and endeavored to remove the seeds and they were mostly too green to keep. The pods looked ripe from the outside, Three pods and one had some nice ripe seeds. The quandary is leaving the pods on the plants to ripen or bringing them inside to ripen in a vase of water. My latest theory is that neither method works very well. They do not ripen outside(in cold weather) and the ones you bring in and place in a vase have a huge problem with rot and you get no seeds from that rotten pod. So, I have been harvesting more pods and shucking them within a day or so and tossing out green seeds and keeping ripe ones. I could write lots more and earlier in the season I check the pods for ripeness but now late in the season I just harvest a bunch that look ripe and toss the green ones. Earlier, I would mark the ones I had checked that were too green with marking tape indicating that the pod has seeds but they are too green and they would get ripe on the plant. Record seed year for both bee pollinated and Margaret pollinated seeds. Her last ones are still on the plants and have been checked 8-10 times and she wants them to get ripe on the plants. If we see any rot we pick them and have "rescued "many good seeds from pods that started to rot. 
Hollyhill Scorpion and I hope we have enough tubers to sell it this year. If you like your flowers to be unusual, this one qualifies.
