2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

heirloomgal

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the photo of the purple bean looks manipulated (even the hand looks more purple than it should).

the pattern of seed coat is same as Purple Dove and not at all like the Prince Purple on your website?
How do people manipulate photos? I know that is such a low tech/no tech question but I'm honestly curious? Is it some app thing?
 

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How do people manipulate photos? I know that is such a low tech/no tech question but I'm honestly curious? Is it some app thing?

yes, some programs will change the values of the the colors, exposure, hue, etc. however you wish. i use a program called GIMP which will let you edit down to any level of detail you'd care to play with.


please note that this may not be a flagrant manipulation as some cameras will autoadjust by default. my own camera, if i take a raw picture image will need to adjust the exposure at a minimum to look "right". i can set it up to do automatic white balancing and other things too if i'd like but i don't, i just wait to see what the picture looks like and then adjust it. i probably don't have something set up right to begin with. :) it can get complicated... :) especially when you consider that you are looking at a picture on several devices (the screen of the camera as compared to how it appears on a desktop monitor which may be using completely different technology to display it, etc.).
 
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Was out today surveying the garden's post rain situation. The pepper plants that I had put in with the beans (which I've never done I don't think, I just wanted to put them anywhere instead of throw them out) did really well. Even though I seldom watered, never gave them fertility they still produced well. I actually found a pepper plant under a pole bean's foliage because it's starting to die down now and there's a whole bunch of peppers on it. Makes me think the peppers are feeding off the bean's nitrogen fixing nodules? Must be some explanation why.
 

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yes, some programs will change the values of the the colors, exposure, hue, etc. however you wish. i use a program called GIMP which will let you edit down to any level of detail you'd care to play with.


please note that this may not be a flagrant manipulation as some cameras will autoadjust by default. my own camera, if i take a raw picture image will need to adjust the exposure at a minimum to look "right". i can set it up to do automatic white balancing and other things too if i'd like but i don't, i just wait to see what the picture looks like and then adjust it. i probably don't have something set up right to begin with. :) it can get complicated... :) especially when you consider that you are looking at a picture on several devices (the screen of the camera as compared to how it appears on a desktop monitor which may be using completely different technology to display it, etc.).
:oldI guess I'm old fashioned - I accentuate or highlight tones and colors in bean photos using fabrics, and background colors!
 

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Wow! This does look related! Is this a Brazilian bean? If the bean I have is Brazilian, I'm impressed that it is maturing in my climate so well. Those Ecuadorian beans I grew in 2023 didn't even flower.
I'm not actually sure that was a Brazilian bean. So many of the photos especially limas were probably Brazilian beans I just copied many bean photos I found and put them in a file called Brazilian beans. This bean might be of European origin. I will keep my eye open for this bean to show up in photos again and try to find out where it comes from.
 

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Was out today surveying the garden's post rain situation. The pepper plants that I had put in with the beans (which I've never done I don't think, I just wanted to put them anywhere instead of throw them out) did really well. Even though I seldom watered, never gave them fertility they still produced well. I actually found a pepper plant under a pole bean's foliage because it's starting to die down now and there's a whole bunch of peppers on it. Makes me think the peppers are feeding off the bean's nitrogen fixing nodules? Must be some explanation why.
I immediately planted the garlic bed after harvesting with a dry bean landrace and Corbaci peppers. Both have done phenomenal! I'm constantly harvesting the peppers to keep the plants upright and rough estimate is 40+ peppers per plant and they're still blooming. The bean mix is mostly finished except for two plants. One turns a dark purple as it matures and eagerly awaiting the first dry pod.
 

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@heirloomgal, Here is a photo of a bean that has the same characteristic of the white stripe coming from the eye of the bean. I wonder How closely these two beans might be related.

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So did Ice Cream Sandwich; that's why you initially thought it was a lablab bean.
 

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The last pods of Purple Cascade are drying down; some of them are about 10" long. It's supposed to be one of the few varieties that holds its colour once cooked. Today I finally noticed that even the vines of this bean plant are deep purple.
 

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