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Blue-Jay
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@Bluejay77 is there any circumstance under which you allow more than 4 plants on a pole? It will soon be time to cull any extras that I planted in the ground and I can feel my inner hogzilla already trying to come up with reasons why I should let this pole have 5.....it is a small bean....Is there any exceptions to the 4 to a pole rule for you? All the bigger seeded beans I planted, like Jembo Polish and Berta Telaska , I put only 3 plants to a pole just in case the large seeds have a longer maturity. But I wonder if smaller seeded beans could go the other way a little?
If I wind up sometimes with 5 plants to a pole I have always let them grow that way. They will be fine. It really breaks my heart to pull up a perfectly good bean plant. The first time I ever planted pole beans I had decided on 4 seeds to a pole. It was strictly an arbitrary number at the time and I found out it worked well. One time I planted 5 seeds around a pole being concerned about the seeds condition or age and wound up with 5 plants growing around the pole. That too seemed to work out fine also. I do though deliberately always revert back to my orignal 4 seed number per pole.
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