HYB: ?time to maturity?

I must have run everybody off with my post about German &
butterflies....

For those of you who live in climates where stalks sometimes rot off
before pods mature - have any of you kept track of germination success
and/or seedling success/rot resistance relative to whether or not the
stalk rotted?

Some stalks here rot thru at the base, some rot in the middle from
insect damage.   I no longer attempt crosses on parents with stalks that
routinely rot, but still have quite a few that will sometimes rot,
sometimes not before pods are fully mature.

Most last at least a month, which seems to be enough to produce viable
seeds most of the time, if I just put the stalk and pods on a bright
window sill.

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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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