I cut back the dead flower spikes on my lupins to encourage more flowers and avoid the plant setting seed. Yrs the furry pods are the seeds and you can collect the seeds but the plant you get from them may differ from the parent.
Yes to both of your first two questions Latimer but if you want to keep the seed they need to grow inside the pods and ripen on the plant ideally. When the pods start to go brown the stems can be cut back and the seed pods collected.
I don't grow lupins now because of lack of space but when I did, after flowering, I cut them back hard, leaves included, fed them with a seaweed extract and would be rewarded with another flush of flowers, not as good as the first flush but very welcome.
@carletonexotic sorry for the slow response, I've not had much time to be on the forum. Here are a few from this morning showing both sides. It's Cedar posts with thin Cedar slats pinned to it.
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then I leave the last one to ripen.
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