Network bean report. All beans are officially planted! Most went in as plants, but I lost a few transplants here and there; a few were genetically off and didn't make normal starter leaves and were deformed, and a few rotted in the starter pots so I had to put in a few seeds along with the transplants. All in all though, I lost very little. The only ones that truly troubled me were some of the Italian ones, and I had to put in seeds to replace lost transplants. Oddly, a friend send me 'Monaco Musso Niriu' - another Italian one - and that one gave me a hard time too, only one transplant survived. It was not so easy a year as last year for doing bean transplants! But I mostly triumphed and all are growing happily right how.
Another weird thing I've been observing is a higher than normal incidence of albinism. I've actually only ever seen that in peas. I'm growing a bean called 'Lllaminera' (European variety) and it looks like every single plant of the 4 starts have it. That's quite odd to me, and sad, because they will ultimately die. I see another albino in the network beans too, can't recall which one. Adding to this is a strange email I received from a seed requester; she sent me a photo of some peas of mine she's growing. I sent her 30 seeds, and she has 3 albinos in there. I was shocked to see that because it's seldom those arise, just the odd one in the occasional packet. I don't know when these various seeds were grown that are showing albinism, but it makes me wonder if there are planetary/weather/mysterious forces that help contribute to that expression? If they all were grown the same year?
Anyway, looking good so far, weather is hot, 85 F today. Nights will be in the mid to upper 50's. A solid week of good weather ahead, it takes a little turn to more moist weather for a bit thereafter, but hopefully by then all seeds will have sprouted and be growing vigorously and need it.
Oh! I also gave all the bean beds there own 9 feet tall electro culture antannaes! lol
