You will do much better taking cuttings, they are so easy just take the tip with about 4 sets of leaves, snip them off just below a leave joint, and put straight into a small plant pot of compost. make sure there are no buds on the cuttings , and water well. good luck.

Aviva, it's best to take most of them off so your fuchsia will continue to flower. You can save some of the seed but it's a long process to raise plants from them.

And you'll find that most of the pods don't have any seeds inside anyway - also, anything grown in this way from any seeds you might find will be variable in that they won't necessarily be the fuchsia they came from, and may be a fuchsia that's not particularly attractive either. Use the pods for jam making! There's a recipe on the web for it.

thanks all, will pick off the pods, and go for the cutting route -fingers crossed. I'm not much of a cook tho so will give the jam making a miss!