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  1. Blue-Jay

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

    I have a neighbor collecting my mail while I'm gone. The last time I texted him there were 4 packages that had arrived somtime aroundthe middle of November. If you don't feel comfortable about sending packages now then I will be leaving Florida on December 13th and should be back home by the 16th.
  2. Blue-Jay

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

    One time I found a website that showed Potomac as a pole snap bean being released by some seed company in the 1940's. I would bet that would be the white seeded Potomac. I will try to find that site again when I get home and post the information. Thank you @heirloomgal for your research and...
  3. Blue-Jay

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

    Thank you @heirloomgal . The link didn't make me login.
  4. Blue-Jay

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

    The link didn't show up in messages. Try emailing the link.
  5. Blue-Jay

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

    Did the original seed you received look like your grown out seed. Was it a semi runner or bush growth. Email me the growers name and address. I would like out of curiosity to see if I had ever shipped this person beans.
  6. Blue-Jay

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

    Looks a lot like my Chickasaw except for the blue in some of the beans. Maybe someone got a hold of Chickasaw and it got crossed with some bean.
  7. Blue-Jay

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

    @heirloomgal said. Is Black Turkey the same as Black Nightfall. Black Turkey is a bean I named. I feel it's more of a pole bean with seed that is slightly larger than Black Nightfall. I feel Black Nightfall is a semi runner. BT's seed mother is Turkey Craw.
  8. Blue-Jay

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

    I agree with @Decoy1 about the sun VS the shade photos. Maybe it's also the time of year with the sun's light angle being so much lower. The sunlight photos have too much shadowing wiping too much of the seeds detail. I like your shade photos better.
  9. Blue-Jay

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

    This looks like a yellow eye variety. It seems every yellow eye I have grown are not as productive although I like them because of their history. I can imagine New Englanders and Nova Scotians harvesting significant quantities of yellow eyes simply because of the large tracts of ground devoted...
  10. Blue-Jay

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

    @heirloomgal , Your bean photos of your post #1044 are just gorgeous. This is the quality of seed I would always like to send out to Network growers. That's one of the ways the Network functions best. When growers return that quality of seed then I can send that kind of seed out to growers...
  11. Blue-Jay

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

    I really like beans patterned like Ukrainian Pole and Kroatische. I wonder how many more there are like these.
  12. Blue-Jay

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

    I wonder if you could send a small package like just one packet of Zinnia seed or something over the border just so you can practise on the Zonos app. Know anyone in Minnesota not far away? Is the Zonos app for mailing in Canada also? What is the lowest cost postage you can do from Canada to...
  13. Blue-Jay

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

    You can wait to mail beans here after I come back. I should be back late in the afternoon on December 18. Anyway I have my next door neighbor collecting my mail.
  14. Blue-Jay

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

    I know that I grew the traditional one because when I recieved the U of California versions. I recorded that information in my computer records when I put the U of California seed in the freezer. So when I took seed out of my freezer the record just simply showed Rio Zape and how many seeds...
  15. Blue-Jay

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

    I grew the traditional Rio Zape this summer. Not the one bred by the U of California. Had we not had that extra sevearl weeks of warm weather these would not have turned like they did for me this year. I would probably have been pulling up plants and taking them home to dry in my garage. However...
  16. Blue-Jay

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

    I think it's some kind of stress. Heat, maybe not quite not enough water. Low mineral content of the soil that has to do with seed formation. It could even be that the variety itself is more sensitive to certain stresses. There were other beans in this same plot that produced abundant seed crops...
  17. Blue-Jay

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

    Anyone get a lot of beans that were wacked out of shape like my photo on the left. My largest bush dry bean plot produced a lot of beans that were oddly shaped. Princes Rose - 2025.........................................................................Princes Rose 2018
  18. Blue-Jay

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

    Thank you Petra. All the shelling is done and I'm going for a visit to a friend's place in Florida for a month and half. Novenber to middle of Decmeber. Will be sorting the beans when I return and preparing them for storage in a freezer. It will probably take me until the middle of January to do...
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