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The Big Bean Show - Day #55
In the autumn of 2011 I bought 4 pounds of Jacob's Cattle from Rancho Gordo in California to make soup out of. When the beans arrived I spread them out on a table to see if by chance their were any odd beans in the batch. Sure enough I found three dark purple looking beans with a little spot of white on the bottom and near one end of the seed. Of course I had to grow them the next year in 2012. What a grueling growing season that was. 90 + degrees everyday from the begining of June to nearly the end of August with maybe just two decent rains all summer. Most of the varieties were stunted but produced seed in small amounts. I watered as much as I could. I thought I was lucky to find those three odd beans in Jacob's Cattle so I named the bean Rabbit's Foot. Didn't know what a fitting name that would turn out to be. The plants turned out to be bush plants. Only one of those three plants produced any pods and the one plant that produced pods only had three dry pods on it by the end of the season and only one pod had just one seed in it. So not wanting to risk that one seed to the out of doors elements I grew that one seed in a flower pot inside the house in a west facing sliding glass door window. I think I wound up with about 20 seeds in 2013. So enough seeds to risk growing them in my big bean plot outside in 2014. Well that grow out produces 7 segregations. Two of which I didn't grow this year. So this first post is just Rabbits foot that I grew out this 2016 season and it didn't produce any segregations. With the next posts I'll start with the segregations I grew this year and any segregations those beans produced.