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So if this system is not lifted by the time you send me beans wrapped in a plain brown paper package. What photo will you give AI to represent the contents of your package? Do you have a cassette tape?

I'm having also this same kind of seed quality with some varieties. However seed that is not totally filled out that are very wrinkled or have places that are deeply sunken into the seed may not germinate at all. I had tested these kind of seeds for germination a few years ago when I noticed a...

However those overseas growers that have the documentation to send their return seeds directly to the USDA inspection station in Linden, New Jersey with the yellow/green label attached and the documentation inside their package still need to do so.

My 2025 bean show that I like to do here every year will probably actually take place starting sometime in January 2026. About a month and half from now I will be traveling to Florida for a month and a half. In my 2025 bean show I will tell you about a bean I had to keep selecting to get it back...

I think your Cornplanter Purple has been crossed with another bean. If you know what your Cornplanter Purple pods and supposed to look like and the seed color and shape you can keep selecting for those traits and possibly get your Cornplanter Purple straightened out eventually.

@heirloomgal I don't know if there will be tariffs on parcels from you. Whatever it is I will pay it and I'm sure it won't be very much.

You will still be able to wrap your package in brown paper with all the seams sealed in tape? Or would you like me to make up a Package inventory list and and send you the image to print out plus the image of the Green/Yellow label and the address label of the the New Jersey inspection station.

Very beautiful quality looking beans. So very nice.

It is the water soaking into the pods externally.

Isn't that what I said? My concern for bush beans is wet ground sprouting and rotting seeds too. Did I word my statement oddly?

My grow out of this bean this year also looks similar to this. The yellow pods I have are now developing I think red streaks and speckles. I will have to take a photo today. The plants are just loaded with yellow pods. I'm hoping we escape any of our usual frosts in early October. The long...

This comes out of Robert Lobitz material that I obtained from Ron Thuma of Hartford, Kansas in 2015. It had Robert's code number of #30B 97D-00M-03A. According to Robert Lobitz it is a Contender x Trout cross. I think that Robert had never worked with this coded bean other than probably being...

I would be more concerned about bush bean pods after a good rain. Since all their pods are within inches of the ground a sunny day or two can purculate moisture up through the plants and pods and ruin seeds certainly by making them sprout. I think a good mulching of your soil is helpful in...

The beans that you got from me were grown in a lighter soil than the place I'm growiing beans this year. My original named bean Pawnee was grown in Belgium one year with soil that had a lot of organic matter added to it and it just looked marvelous. Lots of white with very fine spotting in the...

Harvesting beans in anticipation of rain. If the pods are dry of course those get harvested. Also if the pods are yellow and flabby. When it comes to bush beans. If we have had a heavy rainy period where I know the soil is going to stay very wet for an extended period of time. I look to see if...