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

[Blue-Jay]

Hi Ridge,

Your going to get what you are going to get out of these beans. Having animals around is the hazard of growing small numbers of plants from small seed samples.

I'm living on the edge with SeedO's Armenian Giant Black bean. Only one plant grew out of 4 seeds he gave me. I have a deer that visits my bean patch from time to time. Hoping he or she will leave SeedO's bean alone. I planted SeedO's bean right in the middle of everything. The deer seems to sample beans around the edges of my planting when it does come. I'm sure this deer comes around during the night. Plus my bean patch is 6 miles away from where I live so I can't just look out my window and chase away a pesky deer.

 

[Hal]

Hi Ridge,

Your going to get what you are going to get out of these beans. Having animals around is the hazard of growing small numbers of plants from small seed samples.

I'm living on the edge with SeedO's Armenian Giant Black bean. Only one plant grew out of 4 seeds he gave me. I have a deer that visits my bean patch from time to time. Hoping he or she will leave SeedO's bean alone. I planted SeedO's bean right in the middle of everything. The deer seems to sample beans around the edges of my planting when it does come. I'm sure this deer comes around during the night. Plus my bean patch is 6 miles away from where I live so I can't just look out my window and chase away a pesky deer.

The sigh of relief we are all going to have when you collect dry seed off that plant will be deafening.

 

[baymule]

Only a gardener would understand the anxiety.........

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Or the guilt.

 

[the1honeycomb]

planted them the day I got them! I had some of the lazy house wife that just started to come up! so I will be able to send more of those!

 

[Pulsegleaner]

I'm glad SOMEONE'S Beans are doing well. Mine are in near stasis (a part of me says that, as I am not currently a member of the bean ring, nor am likely to be any time soon, for the reasons I mentioned long ago) I really shouldn't be putting my results here. However since ultimately seed from most, if not all of the types of beans I grow will probably end up being included in Bluejay's pool eventually, either through me sharing it with him or sharing it with someone else who shares with him (like what happened with the Armenian) So info on the varieties may of use on the thread down the road .
At the moment I have two growing bean pods. That's it, TWO. Actually, until this afternoon I though I had only ONE growing bean pod, but while I was watering my Fort Portal Mixed, I found one of the flowers one of the plants had set a month or so ago actually HAD taken, and there is actually a now well swelled pod there that the leaves had completely concealed. But other than those two I've got bupkis.
I'm particularly frustrated with the other one which is on a Mottled Grey plant. While I am glad for that pod, I am really annoyed that it is the ONLY one in the pot doing anything. With the FPM, there are only three plants living now and at least two have made flowers at least, so that is one thing. But there are at least EIGHTEEN MG's out there and so far NONE of the other have shown the vaguest signs of getting off their metaphorical reproductive asses. Most are still barely seedling size. About a quarter seem to have given up and gone into leaf drop. I know I have at least another month (if not more) before things start to get into autumn cool; and that is plenty of time for a healthy flush of beans. But it seems like there is some sort of curse on this one for me . Three plantings most of the time an inability to get three quarters of them to even germinate ( it turns out for this years second try they actually do BETTER planted outside than inside, but I still only got up to maybe half the seed I planted. The Richter's material for this is just too old to really germinate well and now this. I spent a fortune and stocked up like crazy t try and make sure I got a crop of these and it looks like I'll probably have to buy still more , unless I simply give up on this one as being either no good for me or simply no good.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Honeycomb !

Your seed came in the mail. You grew some nice looking seed. Thanks for the nice job. I can see which one are the Brazilian Black, but the others are a mystery to me. I guess the Lazy House Wife Red, The Woza Sugar bean, and the Cape Sugar Bean did not turn out.

What are the larger black beans you sent? What are the light cream tan ones. Then there is a couple of white beans with red around the eye, and a couple more white beans with black around the eye. These are all the ones I don't know what they are.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Hi Marshall,

Yesterday I harvested a few pods of SHORTWAVE SUNSHINE and steam cooked them. They seem like the pods of these will make a nice snap bean. Didn't seem like there was any stringiness them. Some of the plants are developing flattened pods and some are becoming a round podded type. I'm sure it's going to take maybe four or five years to get them all sorted out and to see if they will develop into true breeding types.

 

[aftermidnight]

Hey Russ, the beans on the vining CdC 226 have a purple blush starting to form whereas the other CdeC's in the pot don't seem to have it. Not dry enough to pick for seed yet but soon . I'll post a picture of the pods and seed when I shell them out.

Annette

 

[Hal]

Hey Russ, the beans on the vining CdC 226 have a purple blush starting to form whereas the other CdeC's in the pot don't seem to have it. Not dry enough to pick for seed yet but soon . I'll post a picture of the pods and seed when I shell them out.

Annette

This is interesting, I wonder what the seed will look like.