2021 Little Easy Bean Network - Bean Lovers Come Discover Something New !

[Blue-Jay]

I don't know anything about this company but it came up in an image search. I have the 32 cell version of these, sold for sprouting trees, and you can grow huge bean seedlings in them if you have the space.

How many days can you leave a bean plant grow in this container after the seedling has emerged. Before you need to get them into the ground without them becoming root bound in this tray.

 

[flowerbug]

Maybe you can presprout the seed and push your planting date up a little earlier. I presprouted Ping Zebra this year and I have gotten the biggest seed harvest from PZ ever. I planted PZ probably 10 days earlier that I usually do. Maybe you will figure out how to get that bean matured in your gardens.

it's been hit or miss. sometimes i get some pods earlier and i'm trying to encourage that trait but this long season has shown me that these beans will go a long time as they can get into the fall. perhaps there will be even more pods out there now as we're finally done with the rains and cold nights are coming which will shut them down for sure.

still it would be nice to get these beans out to someone further south who can give them a good long season.

i don't grow them every year so i'm glad i was able to renew the seed this season.

 

[Boilergardener]

This was taken in May on a network bean i believe was coco de belle isle or another. Another agronomist at work thought this was a "Sod webworm" which he had seen in a farmers soybean field 1 time. As you can see it ate through the stem of the bean and killed it. I had a little of this this year (unfortunately on many of the network beans) but not really my other beans or just boughten ones. Has anyone had this pest before?

 

[jbosmith]

How many days can you leave a bean plant grow in this container after the seedling has emerged. Before you need to get them into the ground without them becoming root bound in this tray.

I've never pushed that limit but they're fine for at least a couple of weeks post-emergence. The foliage gets crowded before the roots. The 32 cell version has really big cells.

 

[flowerbug]

This was taken in May on a network bean i believe was coco de belle isle or another. Another agronomist at work thought this was a "Sod webworm" which he had seen in a farmers soybean field 1 time. As you can see it ate through the stem of the bean and killed it. I had a little of this this year (unfortunately on many of the network beans) but not really my other beans or just boughten ones. Has anyone had this pest before?

not seen those here and hope to never see them.

 

[flowerbug]

i found a southern grower for Yed.

 

[Zeedman]

How many days can you leave a bean plant grow in this container after the seedling has emerged. Before you need to get them into the ground without them becoming root bound in this tray.

Because of my temperamental Spring weather, I start a lot of bean transplants. I use Peat 32's for common beans, most limas, and runner beans... and 3" pots for the largest limas & runners. For the limas & runner beans, I try to transplant them as soon as the first pair of leaves is fully grown. For common beans, I wait a little longer - when the first true leaf has emerged (about 14-21 days after planting). Some years weather delays transplanting, and the beans begin to form runners... at that point they will often be slow to establish, and may or may not fully recover. Even in the most extreme cases (such as in 2020, when I actually had to prune back the 2' runners) the over-grown transplants will still produce dry seed, under conditions which might otherwise have caused failure.

I start all runner beans as transplants now, because the emerging shoots closely resemble walnut shoots, and squirrels will dig up the whole row.

For peas, garbanzos, cowpeas, yardlong beans, and most smaller beans, I use peat 50's. Cowpeas get leggy quickly, so I try to transplant those as soon as the first two leaves are fully grown... and because germination can occur in as little as 3 days, transplanting might only be 7-10 days after planting. Peas & garbanzos take longer to germinate, grow more slowly, and can stay in the pots longer... so transplanting is anywhere from 21 days or longer after planting.

I use peat pots for most beans because the roots grow through, and are not air pruned or root bound. I even poke extra holes in the pots with an ice pick, to encourage greater root penetration. A little sand in the bottom of the tray helps to keep those long roots from drying out. When transplanting, those roots can be gently pulled loose... if coiled into the planting hole & not allowed to dry out, those extra roots greatly minimize (or eliminate) transplant shock, and the seedlings become established almost immediately.

Soybeans germinate more slowly & form a stronger root ball, so I use plastic cells for those - deep 36's. Those transplants proved their worth this year, allowing me to save 4 old soybean varieties which had completely failed the previous year. I will be repeating that process for the three varieties which had 0% germination in the garden this year. Transplants are a great way to revive old seed (or to make every seed count from a small sample) because you have greater control of conditions.

 

[Blue-Jay]

This was taken in May on a network bean i believe was coco de belle isle or another. Another agronomist at work thought this was a "Sod webworm" which he had seen in a farmers soybean field 1 time. As you can see it ate through the stem of the bean and killed it. I had a little of this this year (unfortunately on many of the network beans) but not really my other beans or just boughten ones. Has anyone had this pest before?

Have not seen that here either. What Network varieties were involved with those bugs?

 

[Boilergardener]

Coco de belle isle the most, a few on krasavica and maybe Holstein, a few plants petit gris. It was wierd how it effected some worse than others. I think some of the other non network beans had a few. I only noticed them when the plants were up and were dieing. Odd. I dont think they carry on the seed-seed transfer but i could be wrong

Have not seen that here either. What Network varieties were involved with those bugs?

 

[Boilergardener]

Coco de belle isle the most, a few on krasavica and maybe Holstein, a few plants petit gris. It was wierd how it effected some worse than others. I think some of the other non network beans had a few. I only noticed them when the plants were up and were dieing. Odd. I dont think they carry on the seed-seed transfer but i could be wrong

My boss at work who has been in agronomy business 40 years said he has seen them in very good soil in a soybean field one time when i showed him this picture. He said sod webworm. Didnt look like any kind of cutworm / armyworm/ corn borer Etc that ive ever seen. I didnt have any japanese beetles this year, no aphids no stinkbugs! So it was odd as I would call this a low insect year for me in NE Indiana. Ow well! A learning opportunity I supose