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The previous picture isn't mine but presumably those are fresh seeds, as my sample from 2021 looks different. The milky brown background...

What a pretty bean. I'm writing it down in my notebook.

Hewitt has darker stripes, but the pattern is similar

Now that's extraordinary :oops: what did you feed them?

@Triffid, I don't feed my beans with anything special. Before sowing, I give nitrogen and potassium to the soil and later, when the...

@Artorius is Barba di Frate purple the way Lucie is purple? Or a cartoon grape? At first I thought it was the same coloration as the...

@heirloomgal, the purple color seems to be similar to Lucie, but I'm not 100% sure. I would have to take the seeds out of the freezer to...

@BeanieQueen, I can't answer your question because I don't have Hewitt bean.

All gorgeous.. On this photo Zazza looks a bit like Hewitt, when fresh. Is there a difference between them?

I had a miracle bean also one year also back in 2014. My miracle bean was Armenian Giant Black. A young man from Ohio sent me 5 seeds of...

@Artorius , that is a remarkable success story.

Zazza - pole bean from Val Camonica, Lombardy, Italy. Very productive, from two plants I got almost 2 kg of seeds. Panzaredda - pole...

Vermont Appaloosa looks very similar and that is the color they are when fresh out of the pods. i've been growing it for 13 years...

In that case I will keep the Golden Bear Lake seeds at room temperature longer. They were already frozen so the weevils will not appear...

The more time you give this bean to age at room temperature that more color you get out of it. I think the seed I sent you proably sat...