Ridgerunner
Garden Master
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2009
- Messages
- 8,232
- Reaction score
- 10,073
- Points
- 397
- Location
- Southeast Louisiana Zone 9A
Or maybe growing conditions. I have two different growing seasons down here due to the length of the warm weather. Usually if I plant early I get consistency on growing habit, though this year is a bit challenging. But if I plant during the heat of summer some climbing beans may look like a bush. It's usually the semi-runners or half-runners that do that, not the full pole beans. I may have a semi-runner next to what looks like a bush.the fertility of the soil may affect the type of growth to some extent.
These beans are still segregating so I can't be sure what I have until I replant them in the spring. Sometimes they really are a bush, sometimes they come back as a semi or half runner. It's the same soil so I think it's growing conditions and not fertility.