The 2014 Little Easy Bean Network - Get New Beans On The Cheap

[catjac1975]

Marshall- Colchicine is used in doubling the chromosomes of daylilies also. I am having a hard time acquiring it from a US chemical lab. I could get some from China but I am leary of dealing with them. It would be so much fun for my backyard hobby gone crazy!

 

[897tgigvib]

Haven't heard from @Bluejay77 in awhile, but I bet he's busy packing and sorting bean seeds, and we all know how meticulous he is doing that.

Now that my outcrosses are all sorted I'll begin packing envelopes for mailing, first to Russ.

I got 4 boxes of envelopes, and I think they will do just for starters. I haven't yet counted how many total segregations I got from 123 varieties, but I think it averages between 2 or 3 segregations per variety. A good number made no visible segregations, varieties such as Chester and Bosnian pole, and George's Bean. Most of the Limas didn't segregate either. The one notable exception among the limas was Neptune Lima. Each of the plants made different color variations, some subtle, but one plant made almost solid black Limas.

So I'll have about or almost 300 envelopes of seeds to mail to Russ.

Anney's African bean, and Nyimo groundnut bean
did not produce at all. The Anney's African, my best guess is that is a daylight hours sensitive variety from the equatorial region. 3 plants of that variety are still out there in my garden, grew alright, thin stemmed pole, survived the heat and drought, but produced nothing. I didn't see any flowers on them at all.

Nyimo, well, maybe those few seeds I have left, Maybe @baymule would like to try growing them. Actually, I haven't dug the plants up yet...maybe could be might be surprised to find a few down there.

Well, I'll get to packing envelopes real soon.

 

[baymule]

@marshallsmyth so glad that you had a productive season! The Bambarra and Jugo beans I grew for Russ did nothing. They grew, bloomed, but were dying when I pulled them and I got nothing. Total failure. I figured I'd be the best candidate for growing them because of my long growing season, but they did not produce.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Haven't heard from @Bluejay77 in awhile, but I bet he's busy packing and sorting bean seeds, and we all know how meticulous he is doing that.

Now that my outcrosses are all sorted I'll begin packing envelopes for mailing, first to Russ.

I got 4 boxes of envelopes, and I think they will do just for starters. I haven't yet counted how many total segregations I got from 123 varieties, but I think it averages between 2 or 3 segregations per variety. A good number made no visible segregations, varieties such as Chester and Bosnian pole, and George's Bean. Most of the Limas didn't segregate either. The one notable exception among the limas was Neptune Lima. Each of the plants made different color variations, some subtle, but one plant made almost solid black Limas.

So I'll have about or almost 300 envelopes of seeds to mail to Russ.

You are correct Marshall. I'm still shelling a few beans. Got most of it done though. All the bush varieties have been shelled sorted and put up in baby food jars in my basement. Just finished all the pole beans yesterday. Now I need to get them in labeled jars and on my shelves as well.

Marshall maybe you might like to wait until I do my bean fashions shows before you send me any segregated seeds from the same varieties that both of us might have grown this summer. You might be just sending me the same segregations that I already got out of the ones I sent you last year. In a couple more days I'll start putting up photos of the new stuff I found this year. I grew a total of 124 bush varities and 34 pole beans. Quite a load. I just finished weighing all the seed of harvested beans yesterday just out of curiosity. I wound up with 139 pounds of beans. Some new outcrosses as little as six seeds and some beans I wanted to test for eating quality I have as much as 5 pounds.

 

[baymule]

Bean Bonanza!! 139 pounds!!

 

[Blue-Jay]

Hi @TheSeedObesser,

Here two photos of the Armenian Giant Black. This is one of our miracle beans of the year. I'll keep about 30 beans to grow in the future here and send you the rest of the seed crop. The first photo is the whole seed crop on a Hefty sytrofoam plate. Got just a little over a half pound of seed. The second photo is 10 seeds so you can see how nice the seed did turn out. Some of the seeds still have some of the inner white membrane from the pods still stuck on them, but that can be rubbed off.

Maybe I'll get them out in the mail to you tomorrow.

 

[catjac1975]

The bean seeds are beautiful just to look at. And I bet delicious!

 

[Blue-Jay]

The bean seeds are beautiful just to look at. And I bet delicious!

If you could have seen what I grew these beans from you would realize even more how beautiful these beans are. Seedobesser send me I think 4 things that looked more like something you could blow out of your nose when you have a cold. LOL. I don't think they really had a true seedcoat on them. I planted them they all came up but only one survived. The other ones died shortly after coming up. This one was even very late. I wondered if it was going to even produce viable seed before frost here would kill it off. The one surviving plant was only about two feet tall after the 4th of July. Had not even started to bloom until almost the end of July. By that time all my bush beans had bloomed and were full of pods. However in August this one bean got going and started to climb up it's pole and bloom and started growing pods that just made it in time before it got too cold. They are huge pods too 8 to 10 inches long.

 

[Smart Red]

Pictures?

 

[flowerweaver]

At 29.6 N I may be closer to the equator than most of the group, so I'd be happy to try some longer season or day length sensitive beans. I'm just now harvesting my many of my Southwestern and Mexican beans at 200 days. I could have planted them a month earlier, but the field still had soybeans.