2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

[Artorius]

@heirloomgal, the purple color seems to be similar to Lucie, but I'm not 100% sure. I would have to take the seeds out of the freezer to compare.

 

[Triffid]

Zazza - pole bean from Val Camonica, Lombardy, Italy. Very productive, from two plants I got almost 2 kg of seeds.

Now that's extraordinary what did you feed them?

 

[Artorius]

@Triffid, I don't feed my beans with anything special. Before sowing, I give nitrogen and potassium to the soil and later, when the plants have grown a bit, magnesium sulfate with microelements to the leaves. I guess I won't get a Michelin star for this

The exact weight of the Zazza seeds is 1,89 kg, but "almost 2 kg" looks better

 

[Triffid]

All gorgeous..
On this photo Zazza looks a bit like Hewitt, when fresh. Is there a difference between them?

Hewitt has darker stripes, but the pattern is similar

 

[flowerbug]

Hewitt has darker stripes, but the pattern is similar
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are those well aged or is that how they came from the pods? if from the pod they would be darker enough i would consider them a different variety (based upon the two pictures i'm seeing posted here )...

 

[Artorius]

Hewitt has darker stripes, but the pattern is similar
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What a pretty bean. I'm writing it down in my notebook.

 

[Triffid]

are those well aged or is that how they came from the pods? if from the pod they would be darker enough i would consider them a different variety (based upon the two pictures i'm seeing posted here )...

The previous picture isn't mine but presumably those are fresh seeds, as my sample from 2021 looks different. The milky brown background is darker and more orange, and the pattern is more dark plum than blue.

It appears the pattern on Zazza is a coffee brown, whereas the pattern on Hewitt seeds is on the blue-black end of the spectrum. In my experience the former doesn't age into the latter. Maybe blue-ish seeds turn khaki as they age but not the other way around. Do you have a similar observation?