That only leaves Raspberry Ripple. The first shot is what I planted, sort of a red on ivory pattern. To me a very pretty bean. This one did not behave at all this year. It was a pole bean with pink flowers and solid green pods last year.
Now the composite to show them side by side. You can see some differences.
#1 was planted pretty early but a cutworm whacked it off. It sent out a couple of side shoots that eventually showed it was a pole bean. But it was slow to grow and bloom. Pod and bloom were same as the original bean last year. This is one I cut off just before a frost and hung up to try to get some viable beans, it was that late. I managed to get these two beans but more pods are still drying. I think this bean is the only one that matches last year's bean so I'll continue calling this one Raspberry Ripple. I think the coloring is immature.
#2 looks like the original but is was a bush bean, not a pole. That makes it different. Productivity was very low though so I'll not name it or send you any seeds Russ. I'll grow it out next year and see if it is worth pursuing.
#3W looks like the original bean and grew on as a pole, but the bloom was white. A beautiful pure white blossom, not pink like its parent. That makes this different. I'll call this one Rising Fawn and send you some seeds Russ.
#4 was also a pole but some blossoms were white, some were yellow. I don't know where that yellow came from. As you can see it's a very light pink bean. This was never a strong plant, I struggled to get 15 beans off of it. To me those beans looked like they had not totally completed getting final color. I'm not going to name this one or send you seeds but will grow it out again next year and see what happens.
All of the red ones from Raspberry Ripple struggled to get much productivity. I did not have that problem with the two plants that produced black beans from them. I never counted the beans I got from 3B but it was a lot. I did count the ones from plant #5, I got 1476 beans after sorting. One thousand four hundred and seventy six. That's a lot of beans. As far as I can tell these two beans are identical so I'll name it Tallulah's Treasure and send you some seeds Russ.
That's it for me. I covered the grow-out from the black beans I found in the Blue Jay in an earlier post. You won't get much from me this year Russ, nothing like last year. You will only get six:Tranquility, Rising Fawn, Tallulah's Treasure, Midnight at the Oasis, Ausmus Holler, and Voodoo. It will be another week or so before I put them in the mail, I have some in the freezer to make sure no bugs are present. I have several I'll try to grow out next year to see if they are worth naming and sending to you.
It's been fun.
