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Great selection Chrissc. We could all do with a few more sunny days to get some of the late varieties ripened off. Hope you get much more Gigandas.I am pretty sure Cobra is not a hybrid bean, its OP and you can save seeds from it. None of the packets that I have seen say it is and by law they must state on the packet if a seed is F1 hybrid. If they don't, it is OP.
Oh... I could ahve sworn that it said F1 on the packet.... Climbers:Anythign interesting... if there's a climbing red kidney or a climbing pinto then definitely them (and I'd rather have climbers than dwarfs so if they turn up I won't want Canadian Wonder or Bush pinto...I'd also like to try a trial with my black sport pea bean. It will need to be rather more controlled than is usual, and I'll want a few pods worth of beans back from each plant that's grown, seperately packed by plant so that I can trace it..... I've got an idea that the melanic trait is going to be a dominant, so I need to trace through a couple of generations from the next one to work out which strain has two doses of it.... I would expect that the beans I've got will give 75% black and 25% standard bicolour offspring. The stnadard bicolour will be the same as the original plant strain and can goi back into the "general population". Of the black ones, 2/3 will be the same as the parent, with one melanic gene, but the other 1/3 (ie 25% of the total harvest) will be double-melanic, and therefore stable. They will be the basis of Crosskey's Nubian Pea-Bean....
AFAIK there is no French Bean out there that has been hybridised and is sold as F1 - too much work involved. But they will find a way soon for sure.I have a climbing red kidney bean - Veitch Climbing from HSL - and could supply a bit of seed. It is 2009 seed.I wish you the best of luck for the pea bean experiments and evaluations next year and hope that you will get your own variety. It is great fun, even if you have to be careful with note taking. I evaluated 15 F3s of an accidental cross this year and I was really pleased with what I got. there are more F3s to grow next year and the promising F4s from this year to grow out too. It will be another year with many bean plants, although all the experimental ones were one 8ft pole per 3 plants per variety.
I also need to sample the Cherokee ToT as a dried bean to work out if I'm growing it next year
I see no particular reason to be in any kind of rush at the moment. I am still far to busy with the autumn duties and still drying beans. Once the weather gets too cold and grotty to get outside then I will start to get things moving.My idea is to get everyone to make a list of what they have available hopelfully on a spreadsheet. Then I can sent the sheet round and people can choose what they are interested in. Then I will have to work out some kind of allocation system for any beans that have too many who want them. I am not sure what the fairest system will be but I think I will be thinking in terms of giving priority to those people with more interesting varieties on offer and those who regularly take part in the forum. I am just hoping with a bit of negotiation we can sort things out. Hopefully it will be fairer than the round robin system which can leave some people with a very poor deal.I would appreciate peoples views on this.
Code: [Select]I also need to sample the Cherokee ToT as a dried bean to work out if I'm growing it next yearI eat my cherokee mostly as shelled bean..but as fresh sort..I haven't tried it as dried bean though...but cherokee doesn't really yield that much beans..plenty of pod but not much seed..or is it just mine ???But my mystery pinto ;D ;D..that has turned out to be cracker...very pleased..very short pods..only couple of inches but solid with seeds...there is no gaps between each seed and plant produce lots of pods..plant are not growing too tall neither only about 6ft. Last year I grew these to eat as green beans and they are ok...nothing special..but this year I let all set for shelling and found it much better ;D
where did you get the original seeds from, just interested in case we had the same supplier and have the same cross
Pinto – 1500's Heirloom. A relative of the Kidney Bean, this variety is widely used for making refried beans and can also be used in recipes that call for Kidney Beans. This half-runner variety gives a good yields of nice green pods that can be used for green beans. The pods contain at least 5 beige colored beans that are streaked with a nice dark brown color. The name “Pinto” means “painted” in Spanish, referring to their unusual coloration. One of the most popular beans in the U.S. 90 days. $1.99
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