2021 Little Easy Bean Network - Bean Lovers Come Discover Something New !

[Blue-Jay]

Bluejay77's Big Bean Show
Day 7 - The Beans I Grew This Summer​

Cannellino Malato - Bush Dry.

Bean I got in a trade with someone in Italy. My Network growers have been growing this bean. At first the bean had brown colors. Upon the first grow out the bean totally filpped to a reddish color and has maintained that color. It is a very pretty bean. I decided to grow it out this summer to discover that it did not produce a lot of quality pods and seed. I will let my network growers continue to tackle this bean if they like.

Cannellino Malato Off Types - Bush Dry

Cannellino Maloto produced two off type beans this summer. Same colors, it just did something different with those colors

Cannellino Rosso - Bush Dry

This Italian bean was obtained in a trade with a fellow in Belgium in 2015. The bean holds it's color pattern so very well in my soil where ever I grow the bean in the county where I live. Very productive and produces lots of quality beans. It has become one of my many favorites in my bean colletion.

China Yellow - Bush Dry

Also Known as Sulphur bean. There are many strains of this bean around the world. Many of them have the characteristic partial light gray or blackish eye ring. Moderately productive where ever I happend to grow it in my home county. Said to have a characteristic unique flavor.


Christmas - Pole Lima

Productive, Colorful large seeded lima originally from Peru. Dates back to the 1840's.


Cannellino Malato..............................................................Cannellino Malato Off Type #1



Cannellino Malato Off Type #2...................................Cannellino Rosso


China Yellow


Christmas

 

[Boilergardener]

Bluejay77's Big Bean Show
Day 7 - The Beans I Grew This Summer​

Cannellino Malato - Bush Dry.

Bean I got in a trade with someone in Italy. My Network growers have been growing this bean. At first the bean had brown colors. Upon the first grow out the bean totally filpped to a reddish color and has maintained that color. It is a very pretty bean. I decided to grow it out this summer to discover that it did not produce a lot of quality pods and seed. I will let my network growers continue to tackle this bean if they like.

Cannellino Malato Off Types - Bush Dry

Cannellino Maloto produced two off type beans this summer. Same colors, it just did something different with those colors

Cannellino Rosso - Bush Dry

This Italian bean was obtained in a trade with a fellow in Belgium in 2015. The bean holds it's color pattern so very well in my soil where ever I grow the bean in the county where I live. Very productive and produces lots of quality beans. It has become one of my many favorites in my bean colletion.

China Yellow - Bush Dry

Also Known as Sulphur bean. There are many strains of this bean around the world. Many of them have the characteristic partial light gray or blackish eye ring. Moderately productive where ever I happend to grow it in my home county. Said to have a characteristic and unique flavor.

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Cannellino Malato..............................................................Cannellino Malato Off Type #1


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Cannellino Malato Off Type #2...................................China Yellow


Christmas - Pole Lima

Productive, Colorful large seeded lima originally from Peru. Dates back to the 1840's.

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Christmas

What kind of unique flavor does the China Yellow have compared to a cranberry type or something?

 

[Blue-Jay]

What kind of unique flavor does the China Yellow have compared to a cranberry type or something?

I don't know what the flavor is as I'm too busy growing them. All I can say is what I have read others saying that the flavor is not like other beans exactly.

 

[Triffid]

If I were to send a packet of beans to the US, what steps would the recipient and I have to take to ensure their safe and legal passage? I understand Russ organises paperwork for the network beans, but outside of this - if someone could point me a site with all of the details I'd be most grateful

 

[Triffid]

I don't know what the flavor is as I'm too busy growing them. All I can say is what I have read others saying that the flavor is not like other beans exactly.

This is something I can say of Monstrance beans. The pods have a distinct smokey taste, and by other accounts the dried beans taste this way too. Has anyone else noticed this?

 

[flowerbug]

This is something I can say of Monstrance beans. The pods have a distinct smokey taste, and by other accounts the dried beans taste this way too. Has anyone else noticed this?

i've not ever grown them or had the dry beans, but if someone ever does i'd be interested to see what they write.

 

[Blue-Jay]

If I were to send a packet of beans to the US, what steps would the recipient and I have to take to ensure their safe and legal passage? I understand Russ organises paperwork for the network beans, but outside of this - if someone could point me a site with all of the details I'd be most grateful

To make it absolutely foolproof that a packet of beans you send to someone in the U.S. gets to them without being destroyed by customs. Being totally legal by USDA rules. Your recipient should really have a small seed lots account and send to you the necessary paperwork and labels for you to included in your shipment to your recipient. That small seed lots account can be applied for through a website called epermits https://www.eauth.usda.gov/eauth/b/usda/login?fedmode=aphisePermits&TYPE=33554433&REALMOID=06-ea214978-0164-4e6d-930b-2beabd73524f&GUID=&SMAUTHREASON=0&METHOD=GET&SMAGENTNAME=-SM-z8Prtm/ocWzEXH2Fov/aW8jSCfz2Za1T34p25AuxW4kcYCJ7+/igc59RCL8bti60kElUAsE5PqDCgsLdwUKjp9Vmj6MgstcT0bInssBu7nMCjxVXAVBQqKjmpVvbcgyO&TARGET=-SM-HTTPS://epermits.aphis.usda.gov/epermits/index.cfm?CFID=2544111&CFTOKEN=81ad347a8d16f75a--64E6DA3D--E238--9FDF--4210AF30A9981268&ACTION=applicantHome. Actually your recipient will be essentially importing the bean variety as a collector and you will be the shipper. Your beans will go to an examining station of your recipients choice. After the package has been opened and inspected. They are looking for essentially insect pests. If none are found the inspection station will close up your package and forward it by mail to your recipient.

Another thing you can try, but it could be chancy, is for you to put your bean packet in a small box. Wrap it in plain brown packaging paper. Like you are wrapping a Christmas or birthday gift. Make sure all the seams on your package are totally sealed in clear packaging tape and put on your customs declaration something like a used cassette tape with a small monetary amount. The idea of wraping your package is that customs won't want to take the time to rewrap a package with all that paper and since the customs declartion is for something none threatening will just let the package pass by without inspection.

The first way above is the legal way. My second paragraph is the sneaky way.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Bluejay77's Big Bean Show
Day 8 - The Beans I Grew This Summer​

Cokato - Bush Dry.

A Robert Lobitz variety I obtained from Seed Savers Exchange along with 26 other of Roberts Beans after I posted on SSE's Facbook Page that I was looking for these beans of Robert's. My 2021 grow out doesn't look anything like the bean I received. Size, and color totally changed in my soil. First photo is the Cokato I received and the second photo is my 2021 grow out result. My grow out result looks more like Lobitz's "Little Brown Cat".


Cokato From SSE...........................................................Cokato 2021 Grow Out

Cold Creek Segregation 1 - Bush Dry

One of the many Segregations from a set of beans that Robert Lobitz left behind after his death that I call his legacy beans. I have working with this set of beans since 2015 a few of them have stablized. This bean has grown this year for the second time the same way. Maybe going to prove itself stable with the next grow out.

Cold Creek Segregation 1.3 - Bush Dry

This bean was discovered in Cold Creek Segregation 1 in 2019. No segreations from it in 2020 but produced two segregations this year. 1.3.1 and 1.3.2


Cold Creek Segregation 1..............................................Cold Creek Segregation 1.3

Cold Creek Segregations 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 - Bush

Child segregations of Cold Creek Segregation 1.3.


Cold Creek Segregation 1.3.1............................................Cold Creek Segregation 1.3.2


Cold Spring Pinto 1.1 - Bush Dry

This bean is also a segregation of Robert Lobitz legacy beans. Discovered in a pinto looking bean in 2018. This bean takes a long time to develop it's light coloring. The bean is nearly white when first harvested new. The bean also produced one off type this year. It's segregation reverted back to a pinto bean designated as Cold Spring Pinto 1.1-21.


Cold Spring Pinto Segregation 1.1................................................Cold Spring Pinto Segregation 1.1-21

 

[flowerbug]

@Bluejay77 i wonder if Cokato 2021 may age to that other color? it is quite a difference but it may be possible.

 

[Blue-Jay]

@Bluejay77 i wonder if Cokato 2021 may age to that other color? it is quite a difference but it may be possible.

It might age to take on the appearanse of the original seeds I received. However they are probably not going to get the chance to age much as they will be going into the freezer and that really puts a slow down on darkening of seed coats. I have seed in the freezer since 2013 looks like it was just grown this year.