2019 Little Easy Bean Network - Come And Reawaken The Thrill Of Discovery

[Michael Lusk]

In case someone would like to browse the world's largest bean collection. CIAT in Columbia. https://ciat.cgiar.org/what-we-do/crop-conservation-and-use/

@Bluejay77 This is really fascinating, thanks for sharing. Have you ever compared your collection to this database? I'm just curious how hard it is to match up some of the common names we use to something of this nature. Thanks again!

 

[Blue-Jay]

@Bluejay77 This is really fascinating, thanks for sharing. Have you ever compared your collection to this database? I'm just curious how hard it is to match up some of the common names we use to something of this nature. Thanks again!

I've gone through hundreds of pages of this site in years past and have not found beans in my collection that they have in theirs. I don't have the time in the summer or fall do browse through the entire site but perhaps I can get through it this winter. It would be nice if I could go through their entire collection of beans in at least one day. Currently their site has 3,799 pages.

 

[flowerbug]

i think their collection is geared towards south and central america and also africa tropics and semi-tropics...

i'm definitely interested in any beans they've developed for warmer temperatures and/or drought tolerance.

 

[thejenx]

An interesting German database I just found http://www.bohnen-atlas.de/

The woman running the site does something similar as Russ, she also has a network of growers to multiply seeds. This is my 3rd year multiplying seeds for the bohnenatlas. Last year there even was a meet up with growers trading beans, stories and looking at the collection of beans, but I couldn't make it unfortunately. There is also a Facebook group for the bohnenatlas.

 

[Zeedman]

In case someone would like to browse the world's largest bean collection. CIAT in Columbia. https://ciat.cgiar.org/what-we-do/crop-conservation-and-use/

Thanks for the link, bookmarked for future reference. Not sure I really want to go there, though; a couple weeks browsing through GRIN almost drove me crazy.

 

[BeanQueen]

The Sweetwater Outcross is PURPLE

 

[Blue-Jay]

Yesterday BeanQueen wrote to me on the Facebook messenger and asked me what I had grown near Sweetwater last year since I had sent her 2018 seeds of Sweetwater. Since she has posted the beautiful purple pods of the Sweetwater outcross. I thought my answer to her would be fun to share with everyone. I have all my bean planting diagrams all the way back to 2011.

My Answer:

In the row that Sweetwater grew in last year. Polka Dot was on one side and Early Warwick was on the other side. In the very next row south of Sweetwater was Dapple Grey And Giele Waldbeantsje. The very next row on the north side of Sweetwater was North Star Bush Pinto, Reade Krobe and Purple Rose Creek.
(Then it dawned on me where the runner characteristic and purple pods probably have come from the Robert Lobitz "Purple Rose Creek") That's were the vining tendency and the purple pods come from I would bet you. Purple Rose Creek has the seed coat pattern like Blooming Prairie and purple pods. Will be interesting to see. Though I wouldn't be surprised if you wind up with buff/light tan colored seeds. Many purple podded beans have buff colored seeds. I think the pod color and seed color might be linked on a chromosome.

 

[Blue-Jay]

I have some times found purple podded outcrosses in my growouts that at first discovery have dark mottled seeds patterned like Tendergreen. Upon another growout of this seed I wind up with all buff colored beans the following season. So many purple podded beans have light tan or what I call buff colored seeds that I think the purple podded characteristic and buff seeds might be genetically linked.

 

[flowerbug]

I have some times found purple podded outcrosses in my growouts that at first discovery have dark mottled seeds patterned like Tendergreen. Upon another growout of this seed I wind up with all buff colored beans the following season. So many purple podded beans have light tan or what I call buff colored seeds that I think the purple podded characteristic and buff seeds might be genetically linked.

the purple podded seeds i've grown here the most often are black seed coats. i do have some pole beans this year that are as you describe (tan or buff colored seeds).

 

[flowerbug]

Thanks for the link, bookmarked for future reference. Not sure I really want to go there, though; a couple weeks browsing through GRIN almost drove me crazy.

the words "almost" and "drove" imply that you weren't already! hahahaha... j/k you know you're among your own kind of people here. no need to be bashful.