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Your soil did the same thing for this bean as it did for Ernie's Big Eye when you grew it for me. Do you remember? It has nothing to do with strain or your Italian donor. Do you have a photo of what the bean looked like when you first acquired it. I like the way your squaw looks. I wish the soil here would do that to beans that have an eye patch and very fine spotting across the rest of the beans white background. Your soil also reduces the size of the eye patch on beans like this.My beans though have much more white than the ones you picture and not as much colour generally. I'm wondering what has happened to the strain. It would be good to know more about it generally. My seeds came from an Italian donor.