2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

[flowerbug]

If you'd like to grow Trionfo Violetto, I'd be happy to send you seed.

thank you, but no thank you.

i don't normally grow pole beans and am trying to avoid getting more unless there's some trait i'm after i can't get any other way.

i need to rehome a few that have some potential as it is. only one new one will get a chance next season. Yed i refreshed last year so it is good for a few more years.

 

[Artorius]

Some of my nicer looking beans

Mountaineer White Half-Runner



Lobitz's Purple Rain



Pods of another Lobitz's bean. - Chaska Purple. They are wider and longer than those of Purple Rain



Elektra is reliable as always.

 

[Oxford]

The beautiful rose-green pods of Rossa de Son Macià. The pods are about 10 cm/ 4 inches.

 

[oxbow farm]

First 2025 dry bean food of the year for us. Italian Bean Salad with fresh Dolloff beans.

 

[ruralmamma]

While I've been harvesting a few varieties for seed, I foresee this week as the beginning of a harvest explosion! No more harvesting with a shirt tail full of one variety and a different variety in each hand. It's time to bring out the brown lunch sacks so I can harvest without making multiple trips. Secured more cardboard flats for drying and spent most of a morning shelling most of the beans harvested already.

Right now Rio Zape is one that I'm not sure about. It has some small pods and fingers crossed it matures before frost. The Nona Agnes/Meerbarbe/my seed comparison still look surprisingly similar. Hopefully I get a chance to spend some time with each plant this week. I am noticing a purple pod amongst the dry pole varieties and it appears to be coming from one of the George Washington Fall plants. There is some intermingling of varieties at the top, but when I trace the vine downwards, that's where it is originating.

Also I had a chance to examine the purple- podded variety that popped up in the cutshort seed I gave to my mom this spring. While I feel it's likely a cross with Trionfo Violetto, the pods aren't nearly as big. They don't have the cutshort appearance either but are definitely half the size of Trionfo Violetto. Had the opportunity to examine the vines and they're definitely distinguishable as they have a purplish color and lavender flowers and stand out among the normal white flowers in that row. Unfortunately my mom harvested every pod last week and I've asked her to let a few mature for seed as I definitely want to pursue it further. Is this the sign of a bean addict?

 

[flowerbug]

... I've asked her to let a few mature for seed as I definitely want to pursue it further. Is this the sign of a bean addict?

heeheehee...

 

[Branching Out]

heeheehee...

Twice now I've found a bunch of bulgy pods that my elderly mom picked because 'they were getting too big.' If this continues I won't be able to harvest much seed. I may have to pin a note on the bean poles saying 'Please Don't Pick!'

 

[Branching Out]

An elderly Italian gardener gave me seeds of a small crescent-shaped yellow pole snap bean. She told me that they're really good-- but she didn't know the name of the variety. Has anyone grown something similar to this? It would be helpful to identify them.

 

[frijolymoly]

While looking for more information on seed coat patterns and bean genetics, I found this bean research article and I thought it was really interesting and a bit easier for me to understand. The pictures, charts, and tables really helped.


"Seed color patterns in domesticated common bean are
regulated by MYB-bHLH-WD40 transcription factors and
temperature"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tpj.16947

I saw that the UC Davis seeds are also on the priority list and this article is by Travis Parker et al (and others), so many of the beans included in the study are the UC Davis beans.

One of the findings was that in higher temperature environments, the beans they trialed had higher percentage of pigmentation.

So for example, for a bean seed pattern with white and a color, in cooler climates, there was a larger amount of white on the seed coat (lower amount of color/pigmentation), but in hotter climates, there was a larger amount of the colored sections on the seed coat.

 

[heirloomgal]

An elderly Italian gardener gave me seeds of a small crescent-shaped yellow pole snap bean. She told me that they're really good-- but she didn't know the name of the variety. Has anyone grown something similar to this? It would be helpful to identify them.

Annelino Giallo is my guess.