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Beautiful bean. I can see why you want to stabilize it. You never know what you will get with an outcross like that. I've had some that immediately produced a stable bean. I've had some that continue to produce outcrosses through generations, never stablizing. It's not just bean color you...

I've moved to where I can no longer grow beans. That post was just showing what I had grown. I have sent samples of all my beans to @Bluejay77 so he can distribute them to whoever wants to try to grow them. To answer your question, I was growing enough to try to stabilize new varieties and...

No. not of that one. It is one that has repeated each time so I think it is stabilized but it has never been productive. It just kind of limps along and never produces well. I sent you everything I had of Highlight.

According to this a dry bush bean. https://prairiegardenseeds.ca/products/kahl

That sounds a lot like we catch blue crab in the Gulf of Mexico but in a lot shallower water. Down here people catch shrimp by pulling a net behind a boat. A neighbor had a camp on a strait that had a current running through it. He rigged up a net that he could drop in that current and...

I always try to plant the nicest looking beans. That usually means the larger and plumper, but also the ones with the "best" color and patterns. Genetically it shouldn't matter as long as they are stabilized but it feels like the right way to do it.

Now for the long awaited last post in this series. One of the segregations out of Blue Jay produced a solid black pole bean. As pure black as I've seen. I called it Midnight at the Oasis after the Maria Muldair song. That's too long to write on the marker so I shortened these to Oasis...

One of the segregations out of Blue Jay produced a pole bean I called Voodoo. It was a black bean with a dark purple tint. It was the most productive bean I've ever grown. When first grown it segregated into a black and a white version, hence the VB initials. VB 2A is a new segregation...

In 2016 I found a segregation in Blue Jay, a bush snap bean I was growing as a production bean. I got those beans from a company in Canada that had a license to ship to the US. I have no idea what it might have crossed with but it had to be a pole bean. I planted three seeds and each produced...

I'll resume the bean show. These are the WB #32's. One of the segregations of the WB #32 was an extremely vigorous half runner that produced over 500 beans on one plant. I called it Miss T as that was what we called my granddaughter on social media. Miss T has come up with many different...

Have you considered planting the beige ones to see what happens?

I'll now start the WB #32's I consider Aksai stabilized. I have grown it 4 times and it has always been consistent. When I grew it in 2022 the quality of the seed was not as good as it usually is but 2022 was not a great year generally. It is a bush from the WB #32 packet. Aksai is a town...

Some more WB #27's TTA 2A2 is a new segregation grown in 2021 TTB is a new segregation grown in 2019. TTC is a new segregation grown in 2019. This concludes the WB #27's.

Another round of the WB #27's TTA 2C is a new segregation grown in 2020. TTA 3A is a new segregation grown in 2020 TTA 3B is a new segregation grown in 2020 TTA 4 is a new segregation grown in 2020.

I'll try to post some more of the WB beans. These are still from the WB #27's. TTA 2A4 A is a new segregation grown in 2021. This bean has a brown color that I associate with water damage but I tried to germinate the two that appeared the worst. Both sprouted. I consider it the natural...

I have 60 in the packet for you and about that many in reserve. Do you want more?

The next several beans are TT's. I named one of the segregations from WB #27 in 2016 Raspberry Ripple. When planted in 2017 Raspberry Ripple produced more segregations, I called a very productive one Tallulah's Treasure. When I planted it again in 2019 it again produced more segregations so I...

I'll get in another segment of the beans from the Will Bonsall beans I got from Russ. These are all from the WB #27 packet. Raspberry Ripple 1 was grown in 2017. It is a first time segregation. Ripple 2A 1 is a new segregation grown in 2022 Rising Fawn Black was last grown in 2020 and...

I did not name some of the original WB #27 segregations, just coded them 27-1 or 27-3. 27-1 2A is a new segregation grow in in 2021. 27-1 2B was grown in 2022 and has repeated twice. To be considered stabilized it only needs to repeat 3 times so 2B may be on the verge of stabilizing...

I only have two that originated with the WB #38 packet. Tartan Tan 1A is a new segregation I grew in 2022 and Tartan Tan 2 is a new segregation grown in 2021. In south Louisiana I had two growing seasons each year. The S-22 means Tartan Tan 1A was grown in the Spring of 2022. Tartan Tan 2...