I can report successful seed production for both Botosani Cyclops and Passage to India.
Botosani Cyclops has yielded 4 dry seed with more ripening, though they didn't vine much. Not sure if it was cultural conditions or just being a half runner. Pods look like a stubby Roma type.
One of my Passage to India plants has grown as a bush, and has produced all of the seeds I've collected from this variety so far. Passage to India Bush Variant? All of the seeds look like the original sample. The other plants are true poles and are still ripening their seed. This one has fairly tiny seeds with small pods. Any idea what they would have been bred for?
The Large Chocolate Tepary and Orange Speckled Paiute Tepary are both making moderately clingy masses of vines. They are doing well on the chickenwire trellises, but are only just now setting flowers. Given the odd spring and summer we've had in Virginia I'm not surprised.
I'm not sure if my decision to only plant half of each of the 4 kinds of seeds was prudent or not as the ones I planted largely came up after some worrying. If I'm still at this address next year I could plant the remainder and return seed samples from them to ensure a good gene pool.
My cowpeas, longbeans and other pole beans are really only just gearing up into production. Normally I'm flush with more beans that I can eat by now, but so far have only had a single small meal off of one kind of bush bean.
The less said about my sad attempt at limas this year the better.
