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Noooo, bee, no!

I agree, it is meant to be green. There is another bean, Ryder's Blue Coco bean that is purple...

Interesting. Blau Weiße von Bernada here is definitely earlier than Succotash. And it did not need greenhouse protection in England...

Yes Succotash is a bit of a difficult one and very late. A botanist in my German bean gardening group has found evidence to suggest that...

Our Illinois rain this year is SO SPOTTY!!! DH and I drove into C-U on Saturday, driving into and under a shelf cloud...

All your photos look like normal healthy bean plants. Very nice !

Will do a photo dump of the network beans so you can see how they're all doing. This is a mixture of the 2024 ones that were fails as...

I do also believe these are ok. Bean mosaic shows as narrowed leaves and darker green patches on these leaves. Google has photos...

@heirloomgal i'm not sure those plants are infected as it looks maybe more like either heat stress or some other issue. they don't look...

Super photos.

Not sure if these varieties being ahead is random, genetic or what, but in any case these are my tallest plants so far this year...

It is quite intense. Even in the leaves, you can see the purple-blue color.

And such lovely sharp photos too.

And a few bush bean flowers, just because they’re so lovely.

Thanks for sharing this-- it's a fascinating anomaly, and perhaps more common than one would think. Gorgeous blossoms on your sweet pea...