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

[Blue-Jay]

Weed Fabric Installed today at Bean Acres.

 

[Artorius]

Master!!

 

[Artorius]

Limas and pole beans are starting to bloom.

Potawatomi Lima


The Tonawanda Variant has flowers in two colors. Which is correct?

 

[Artorius]

@flowerbug
First frames from the movie "Beans: An Unexpected Journey" Only two, because my camera batteries died.
Both beans are climbers, they are about 1 meter. Lemon Slice starts blooming while Huey blooms profusely and it already has a lot of little pods.

Lemon Slice


Huey

 

[flowerbug]

@flowerbug
First frames from the movie "Beans: An Unexpected Journey" Only two, because my camera batteries died.
Both beans are climbers, they are about 1 meter. Lemon Slice starts blooming while Huey blooms profusely and it already has a lot of little pods.

Lemon Slice
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Huey
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*bounce bounce with happiness!*

how many seeds did you plant? LS would not surprise me if it were semi-runner and some climbers, but i don't expect Huey to be that strong of a climber. so interesting for sure as H may run a bit here but have not been strong runners. we'll see what happens.

i would expect H to be an early profuse bean as both parents were early and profuse which is why i kept growing them until they crossed. the thing is, both parents are bush beans or at most semi-runner. 1 meter is the max i would expect from them too.

now, if your soil is so much better than mine perhaps they'll go all gonzo and i've created monsters? haha. thanks for pictures and letting me know how the adopted babies are doing. i just hope you get seeds back that look as good as what i've seen here. like any parent i'm always sure my babies are the prettiest beans ever so i hope you get to enjoy them too.

 

[heirloomgal]

We have had some seriously unusual weather here this year, all extremes of hot, cold, soaking wet, to bone dry. Also, there was a high frost in mid June. Very bizarre. So, some of my beans have done really well, and some have struggled. I though I'd make a post showing what is doing exceptionally well; not surprisingly many that came from BC and some Maritime varieties have tolerated these conditions very well. Also, it's been a buggy year.

This is 'Early Pinkies' from BC. The first couple plants in the row were transplants, the rest put in as seeds, but they've caught up fast. This is a bean that has slowed down for NOTHING this year. Probably one of the most vigorous of all the bush beans. It's a new one out there.

 

[heirloomgal]

(Cont. from previous post)

Just for comparison, here's Golden Wax, old as the hills, and it was the last bean of all planted, but still it is certainly waiting for cooler, drier weather.

Shirolustruca Kovina, from P.E.I, showing very little stress from all the rain. You can see the moisture still in the soil, despite the dry surface, by the dark foot paths.

Nicaraguan Black Turtle, a semi runner, has grown without checks from weather too. It is also growing with some shade for part of the day.

Ruckle bean from B.C., close in performance to Early Pinkies.

Tallest bean on the back row is Coco Rubico, which has not been slowed in growth and is flowering as well. Mont d'or and Roc d'or beside, without the same vigour, though they have not shown any signs of disease. Coco Rubico looks like it will have runners, which comes as a surprise.

Macuzalito which has been growing vigorously from the beginning. In fact, I think the sustained rain on the enriched soil has caused the normal bush habit to turn into a semi runner. I recall now this happening to Jumbo roma bush beans I once planted long ago in a rainy summer.

Rio Zape, Tigre and Vaquero have all been super healthy. Bean seed flies were what damaged my seedlings with the short Vaquero row.

Maine Sunset has stayed in good shape, though not as bushy as the others. Another coastal bean which handled the extremes well.

I had one Sacre Bleu pole bean die, but except for that one, all the poles seem to be more aggressive and unfazed growers than bush beans. A few have climbed up to five or six feet. Piekny Jas is blooming like crazy but not setting beans. I guess it's too hot, was 27 degrees here for last few days. I do have to encourage some of the climbing shoots to stay on their own pole.

In total, I planted about 65 bush and semi varieties, and 50 pole varieties. The highest poles are Northeastern, Chester and Fagiola Viola.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Coco Rubico looks like it will have runners, which comes as a surprise

Coco Rubico is not a semi runner. It is a true bush. My growing of this bean goes back into the mid 1970's. Any individual plant of Coco Rubico that throws runners is outcrossed. You can continue to grow it if you like to see what you get in the way of seed coat. If you continue to grow it out. I would mark it and carefully harvest it's pods so you know those seeds are not Coco Rubico in case it's seeds wind up looking exactly like CR. Or you can do what I do when I find runners in my true bush grow outs. I pull them up and dicard them so they don't outcross further with other true bush beans. The climbing habit is a dominant trait over the recessive true bush.

 

[Blue-Jay]

@heirloomgal,

Your bean grow outs look great. Looking happy and healthy. Loving all the photos.

 

[heirloomgal]

Coco Rubico is not a semi runner. It is a true bush. My growing of this bean goes back into the mid 1970's. Any individual plant of Coco Rubico that throws runners is outcrossed. You can continue to grow it if you like to see what you get in the way of seed coat. If you continue to grow it out. I would mark it and carefully harvest it's pods so you know those seeds are not Coco Rubico in case it's seeds wind up looking exactly like CR. Or you can do what I do when I find runners in my true bush grow outs. I pull them up and dicard them so they don't outcross further with other true bush beans. The climbing habit is a dominant trait over the recessive true bush.

I went and inspected each plant in the Coco Rubico row to see exactly what was going on in there. You're right, they are actually all bushes; the runners that I saw in there were a gap in the row I had filled in with 2 spare transplants. Those had the runners! My tags start disappearing under the foliage about this time. Still, those were Maculazito tranplants which are supposed to be bushes. Those were grown from my own seed, and I don't believe I grew semi-s that year. I guess I'll have to see what is going on with them as the season progresses.