is anyone here interested in matte finish beans?
the Black Turtle bean first came to me as a matte finish. i don't grow that one regularly any longer but i do have three other matte finish beans. a red one (that can wander from browns to lighter reds), a grayish striped bean and a black bean with speckles. the last two came from selections from Peregion and i'm not exactly sure if the gray striped one was originally in there but it has come about (there's a lot of striped beans in Peregion). i have some original samples still of Peregion but i've not gone through them yet to see if any hints of the gray striped bean are in there or not.
the interesting other point about the gray striped bean with the matte finish is the area around the eye on some of them is white and it reminds me of another bean i spend a lot of time with (Purple Dove of course
). at times i do see hints of stripes in PD so i'm wondering where those stripes may have come from and having some kind of link to a striped bean is possible as an ancestor. they also tend to be angular and not large beans but a few do make it bigger than 1cm from time to time as more rounded beans.
the black speckled matte finish versions are very interesting looking (a small bean for the most part -- i don't see many get over 8mm) and many are angular.
this was the first year in a long time that i did my best to regenerate my seed supply for Peregion as a blend and that meant planting a lot of the old beans i had on hand and hoping some of them would grow. i did get a good response (better than i expected actually) from my plantings and harvested all sorts of different beans and i blended them back together making sure i had all the different types represented in my seed samples. i hope to be sending them off to other homes at the seed swap. only nine samples.
some time i should get a picture of the refreshed beans and the old oxidized ones that are all darker.
next year i'll again replant as much of the old seeds of Peregion that i still have left and see what they can produce. some are semi-runners and sprawl all over the place and others are more compact bush plants. none have been large enough that i'd consider them a pole bean.
sometime i should also take individual pictures of each type of bean i've found. Tan Goat's Eye i already have pictures of (and Huey is a decendant of those and the common red beans i grow called Red Ryder).
). Photo-period sensitivity would be irrelevant though, if grown in a greenhouse. I hope you are successful, and look forward to hearing about your results.
Nothing extraordinary, but nice.
