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while giving the garden tour yesterday we saw that the Purple Dove beans were starting to flower. :) :) :)

and as a side note this article about beans and Brazil makes me wonder where the South American bean people are at as we've not had any post here in the bean threads that i know of... hmmm... if you are reading and not posting that's ok, but saying hello is always appreciated. :)

 

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Have you ever encountered a situation where varieties that normally grow as bush put out runners in more fertilizer locations?
I haven't seen that but I've seen heavy rains on fertile soil cause bush beans to almost act like semi runners, and flop all over the place.
 

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Have you ever encountered a situation where varieties that normally grow as bush put out runners in more fertilizer locations?
Never to a great extent. Some bush beans (of different species) will put out a single short runner, which may twine weakly... but only to 2-3 feet. I generally cut those short runners off, which has no apparent effect on yield. One of the beans I'm growing this year ("Bert Goodwin") is classified as bush, but probably is more of a "weak climber". I support the 3' runner just to keep the plants from tipping over (nearly all pods are borne at 2' or below).
 

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I have 4 plants of the Swedish variety Anthbacksbona. Runners appeared on all of them. There is not much information about this bean on the internet, but it is described as bush.
There are also short runners on Tiger's Eye. I sowed my own seeds harvested from plants growing in an isolated place. I don't know what to think about it.
 

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When I grew Beefy Resilient Grex last summer (which was extremely dry) they were all bushes up until we had a turn in the weather with heavy rainfall in late August. Then, some of them grew short runners, started blooming again, and were flopping over by harvest time. These were more productive, with many more pods and seeds twice the size of the early bush forms that finished before the rains came.
 

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When I grew Beefy Resilient Grex last summer (which was extremely dry) they were all bushes up until we had a turn in the weather with heavy rainfall in late August. Then, some of them grew short runners, started blooming again, and were flopping over by harvest time. These were more productive, with many more pods and seeds twice the size of the early bush forms that finished before the rains came.

the description i have on file of those is "Bush bean with short runners", but i never actually grew them myself. :)
 
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