My first question would be did you bag the blossoms/plant to prevent cross pollenation ??

IF you didn't, I for one, don't want your seeds

Just my 2 cents

I have 4 types of ornamental peppers. none have flowered at the same time at all. even with that I keep them in different rooms of the house.
2 are pretty big and 1 sort of small. Last one is very small but hot red peppers. each of these have about 5 to 8sh seeds. It would be a chore to get the seeds from this last plant. If your doing it for yourself then I guess I'd do it. If you want to trade the seeds. you might send a few pods and let the other guy do it.
Not sure if this helps, cause you never said anything about trades.

I guess I should clarify a few things. I don't have several hundred different varieties of pepper plants. I grew only one variety and have several hundred peppers from the few plants I grew and was trying to find an easy way to collect the seed.
Jim

if possible to dry whole you could maybe just break them and then sift through the seeds. not sure if this would be easier or work but there you go with my idea.

Michael

Well after a little more research I found that you can collect pepper seed the same way you would tomatoes. Thanks for everyones advice and thank you Byron because I found a post from 2005 where you told someone you can ferment pepper seed like you would tomatoes. So you helped me after all and I thank you.
Jim

In my experience, it is unnecessary to ferment pepper seeds as you would tomato seeds. I would hang the peppers in a "ristra" and let them dry out (be sure you use ONLY ripe peppers). After they are dry, you can crush them by hand (use latex gloves). Then you can easily separate the seeds from the dried red chile (use a common butter knife to rake them into a zip-lock bag. Pretty easy actually.

Best Regards----Have Fun!
Bruce (Junkmanme in New Mexico)

I don't ferment pepper seeds either because they don't have a gelatinous coating like tomatoes. However, it might help if the peppers are diseased? Would think so.

Here is a link that might be useful: Part 1: Selecting and Germinating Seeds

I ferment for the following reasons

1. Removes placenta, very important with very hot peppers
2. Reduces Probability of Bacterial Spot, Spec or cancer.
3. Reduces immature seeds
4. Removes bug eggs.

Just my 2 cents

jt where were ya at OF??