Steve wrote
We're growing these for the first time this year, and we've got lots of
striking red-streaked pods, and we want to harvest the beans for use
later in the year, as opposed to using the complete pods at an earlier
stage. At what point do we pick them?

When we have grown beans for their seeds we have simply left them all until
the end of the season and collected them then.

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Regards
Bob H