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[Blue-Jay]

Russ's Bean Show Day #21​

"NORTH STAR BUSH PINTO" - Bush Dry. A Robert Lobitz original named bean by him. Said to be the first true bush pinto. Grew this bean for the first time this year.

"North Star Bush Pinto - Bush Dry.

Owl's Head Segregation 2014 - Semi Runner dry. This is a segregation I found after growing Owl's Head in 2014. This year the bean produced two off types. The first photo is the Segregation I found in 2014. The second photo looks similar to Owl's Head but it is not the same. Seed of this one is larger and narrower and somewhat flattened. The third photo looks a little like a very light version of Candian Wild Goose. The markings look nearly washed out.

"Owl's Head Segregation Found in 2014 - Semi Runner

"Segregation Related To Owl's Head - Semi Runner

"Segregation Related To Owl's Head - Semi Runner

"PAULA" - Bush Snap. Another Robert Lobitz bean. Said to be a snap bean. This summer was my first try at growing this one. Actually grew out a couple seeds in a flower pot. Green pods streaked with purple. Robert's description of the seeds which appeared in the 2006 SSE yearbook says black seeds with a few faint gray flecks. The seeds coloring is so similar to one of his other beans "King's Knight" it makes me wonder if they might be related.

"Paula" - Bush Snap.

"PEA BEAN TURKEY" - Pole Dry. I got this bean from Tricia Rosamilia last year. Grew it this summer for the first time. Very productive. I had a fellow from England contact me by email about the bean. He stated there is a bean simply called "Pea Bean" that shows all the same characteristics that has been grown in the UK for over 400 years. He wondered if this bean had gotten around and got Turkey added to it's name because of where it was purchased.

"Pea Bean Turkey" - Pole Dry.

"PEBBLESTONE" - Semi Runner. I discovered this bean growing in "White Robin" in 2012 and it has been throwing off types every year I grow it. This year was the 4th growout. It produced one different segregation I haven't seen it produce before, and one I have. First photo is "Pebblestone" the other two photos are this years other off types.

"Pebblestone" - Semi Runner

"Pebblestone off type" - Semi Runner

"Pebblestone off type" - Semi Runner

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[flowerbug]

A few more pics from this year:

These are a selection from a likely Money/Appaloosa cross (the original appaloosa is a long skinny bean):

And these are a eleven groups of four beans of the type that have a partial white end (each are a distinct color from the others - and i don't have any of the yellow or tan ones in here or there would be more):

 

[Blue-Jay]

@flowerbug, First I want to thank you very much for your named beans that you sent. They will be fun growing out sometime. I also got something that looked like your top photo out of my Purple Face bean this year. Almost like a Black Money bean with the tan mottling in the black areas.

 

[flowerbug]

@flowerbug, First I want to thank you very much for your named beans that you sent. They will be fun growing out sometime. I also got something that looked like your top photo out of my Purple Face bean this year. Almost like a Black Money bean with the tan mottling in the black areas.

you're welcome, i'm just glad i had a place to send some of my "children" off to so that i'm not the only person who has them (in case of fire or something)...

have you seen anything as shiny/silvery as the Monster beans (out cross of or revert to parent type of Dappled Grey)? those were a real surprise to me.

much fun indeed. i'm always looking forwards to the next planting season just so i can see what happens next.

i hope you figured out that i sent 1st selection for some of them in the inner packet and then the baggie was the extras that i had leftover that i would not have any use for. the 1st selection for Purple Dove were so beautiful i hated to send them, but i had so many it was ok in the end...

the Money/Appaloosa outcross/selection i hope to see how that goes this coming season as a replacement for Appaloosa and Money beans. i may have just got lucky with them this season because of where they were planted (nearly perfect garden soil).

 

[Blue-Jay]

@flowerbug,

The "Monster" is an interesting looking bean. How many times have you grown it out before?

 

[Blue-Jay]

Russ's Bean Show Day #22​

"PIROS FEHER" - Semi Runner dry. Purchase from Heritage Harvest Seed in Canada in 2011. This year was the 5th grow out of the bean. Hungarian variety. So far I have never had a real big crop it. 2012 was probably my best year with it so far.

"Piros Feher" - Semi Runner dry

"POLKA DOT" - Bush Dry. I had first encountered this bean in 1978 from John Withee's Wanigan catalog. I grew it frequently into the 1980's. I believe it may have been bred by J.R. Hepler in the 1940's. J.R. was a horticultural professor and plant breeder at the University of New Hampshire. His son Billy started the Billy Hepler Seed Co. when he was 12. Billy sold this bean from the late 1940's into the early 1950's. Shorter but wider seed than Jacob's Cattle. Some people describe the color as black and white. I see dark purple in the colored areas of the bean. Productive, I had a nice crop of the bean this summer.

"Polka Dot" - Bush Dry.

"Possum Trot" - Bush Dry. I discovered this bean in White Robin in 2012. This year was the third time I've grown it out and the first time it did not produce any off type seed. I finally gave it this name this summer. I thought it produced a rather pretty looking reverse coloring also this summer. First Photo is Possum Trot with it's grape sherbet look, and second photo is the reverse coloring.

"Possum Trot" - Bush Dry

"Possum Trot" - Reverse Coloring

"PRINCE PURPLE" - Bush Dry. This is the first year I've grown this bean. It's another Robert Lobitz original named bean. It produced fairly decent sized crop. Robert had listed this bean for the first time in the 2006 SSE yearbook. It's purple shade is so close to Koronis Purple I wonder if the two beans are related. He also wrote in the yearbook description "Appears to be a true to type with sometimes a few red pink seeds".

"Prince Purple" Bush Dry.

"PRINCESS ROSE" - Bush Dry. Also my first time growing this bean this past summer. Another Robert Lobitz original named bean. Robert also released this in 2006 through the SSE yearbook. He wrote in his description 85 days, bright red pink seeds. A variety selected from Prince Purple.

"Princess Rose" - Bush Dry.

 

[flowerbug]

@flowerbug,

The "Monster" is an interesting looking bean. How many times have you grown it out before?

Monster came from the Dappled Grey seeds you sent me. that was the first time i've grown them.

you mentioned before that you'd never had an out cross show up from DG before and i thought it interesting/amusing that the first attempt i had with them i get either a reversion to a parental or an out cross showing up.

that silver coat is unique. nothing else here i grow has ever had that. but i also know it wasn't from any of my beans because of where i planted it.

 

[saritabee]

@saritabee, If you can get your beans here by the 15th of December it would be very helpful. Mail will be shut off not much further down the road from that date. Go ahead and send the HBH anyway. I can open the packets here and leave them all winter on shelf somwhere here in my house. Put a desecant packet or two in with them when you mail. I can resend the desecant back to you with new seed if you are going to do a grow out again next year. What was the approximate date you last harvested any HBH seed?

Sounds good! I'll make sure to get them in the mail tomorrow. The HBH are mostly all dried now, it's just that you can still dent the seed coat on a few with a fingernail, so I'm concerned about freezing them just yet.

October 13th/14th was my big bean harvest weekend; all the beans came down that weekend. I still had a lot of varieties going strong, but we were due for about ten straight days of pouring rain. So now I also have a bunch of frozen shelly beans to try, if anyone has any recipe recommendations!

 

[flowerbug]

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October 13th/14th was my big bean harvest weekend; all the beans came down that weekend. I still had a lot of varieties going strong, but we were due for about ten straight days of pouring rain. So now I also have a bunch of frozen shelly beans to try, if anyone has any recipe recommendations!

i've always kept them very simple, cook until done and melt a little butter on them, that's about it. so good.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Monster came from the Dappled Grey seeds you sent me. that was the first time i've grown them.

you mentioned before that you'd never had an out cross show up from DG before and i thought it interesting/amusing that the first attempt i had with them i get either a reversion to a parental or an out cross showing up.

that silver coat is unique. nothing else here i grow has ever had that. but i also know it wasn't from any of my beans because of where i planted it.

Well I'll be darned from Dapple Grey. I must have sent you just the right seeds. I planted Dapple Grey this year and all I got was what looked like pure Dapple Grey and I certainly was not disappointed. When you pick some seeds to grow you could probably just go right around the ones that have new genetic information in them. Possibly if you are into making things like soup and baked beans. I would imagine some outcrossed seed could even disappear through the stomach too.