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Looking back at many of the posts for 2025 I ran across post #923. I would definitely plant the white bean with the widely set brown markings on it. It looks like a modified Pinto bean. It's probably a cross and in my book it's worth investigating it's growth some more.

Here is one bean that is a favorite of mine for beauty. It's called Anna Zape. It's from California. It's a cross between Anasazi and Rio Zape and it is stable. So how is this one for beauty? Anazape - Pole Dry

Going through my freezer file list of bean seed. I noticed a bean name I didn't know was there. Did anyone of the network grows send be Sonntagsbohne. Interpets into English as Sunday bean. The entry is dated 2023.

I'm still in the process of sorting and packaging 2025's seed crop for the freezer. When I'm done. I will do my 2025 bean show on this years 2026 thread. I need a new camera. I've taken over a hundred photos of beans with my phones camera. They are not terrible photos but still think in my...

You got blue beans with drought and extreme heat. Usually blue beans produce tan seeds when it's hot. The blue in most blue beans comes when the seed forms in cooler weather. I've seen September Blue produce tan seeds before. If you shine a very bright flashlight on the seed you will see a few...

Your bean package came today. I'm just blown away by the beauty of your beans. Wow ! you really did a lot of work this year on all these beans. Thank you so much. Did you get any off types from September Blue. You really returned such blue beans on this one. I hope you got to keep a great big...

What is the problem with being able to mail package from Europe to countries overseas? I got a message from a Network grower in France who said I will mail the return pakage when things return to normal. So why are things now abnormal. Also a Network in grower Germany who usually has their seeds...

I don't think that most beans be circulated among bean growers are made up by them. I think most of them are genuine heirlooms or you might say golden oldies.

I eat them too. They are a bean I named and I think it's getting close to stable or might already be stable. If you are getting any off types from it, it may have crossed again with something in the vicinity of where it was last grown.

Hi @heartsong111, email me with what you would like to grow out this coming summer (upadam@comcast.net). If you don't have enough of the September Blue just hang on to them and grow them again. September Blue is a bean still a work in progress. I've got Purgatorio but I just noticed I don't...

You can use the Georgia 4 off types as food if you want. I had the best year ever with my Rio Zape grow out. That was due to our extended summer in October. The beans were even larger than any I had grown previously. @ruralmamma the beans in your photos are all just beautiful.

@Artorius, Your package is in the mail on it's way to your friend in Paris. Two surprise packets are in the package from flowerbug. Also a surprise bean from me. It's something I'm trying to stabalize. I think it's neat looking. Hope you have fun with it. I have already given it a name. I also...

That is really neat looking. First time I've ever seen pink pods on a pole bean like this.

Oh @saritabee so nice to hear from you again. I wonder what the trick is to growing Frost. I planted 16 seeds this year and they all died. I had a couple of others die on me too. I keep thinking that some beans are so acclimated for the climate they have been grown in for such a long time that...

Wow ! Love the bean show. Now WB-PKT 45.1 has a name and how perfect of a name is that, Onyx !! The beans are just beautiful. So nice looking. Did you ever take any photos of Ma Williams while the pods were in their pink stage?

Just tell your friend since we are not sending the beans to the USDA in Linden, New Jersey and not using the USDA green/yellow label. This shipment can not have any statement about beans or seeds. Customs will confiscate them for sure. Used cassette tapes or whatever but not beans or seeds...

Do you live in Kentucky? Then I think I know your name but won't give it away here. I've been here so long there is no way I can escape my identity.

Hello Everyone ! Here we are now in 2026 beginning our 14th year in this Network. At some point in time it felt like a family to me and I’m sure to many of you as well. Helping each other by posting our collective knowledge has been an amazing thing for me to enjoy, learn and observe as I will...

Ohhhh flowerbug I'm so very sorry I ruined your surprise. Sometimes it helps if you include little reminder notes in your package. I have so many things going and I forget stuff really easy sometimes.

Hi @flowerbug, Your package came today. Thank you the seeds, they are beatiful. I have an order for Artur. I will send the two ourcrosses to him when the order I made for him arrives here. I will include those two packets for him.