2018 Little Easy Bean Network - Join Us In Saving Amazing Heirloom Beans

[Raiquee]

@Raiquee I don't grow Fava's but now you've peaked my interest, I'll have to do some snooping.

Is this the same one? https://www.rareseeds.com/atawallpa-s-fingerprint-fava-bean/submit-review/

Annette

Yes, I believe baker creek offered it in 2015, it was brought to them by Joseph Simcox, and he has a pic of the freshly shelled favas on his instagram. Looks like this:

Apparently though it doesnt look like a lot of people either grew it or maintained it. :/

 

[Blue-Jay]

Oh Hi Desire' So neat to see you here now ! Fun to read all the new postings today. What a great Sunday. I have to say it again so glad you found us. More bean people, more fun.

 

[Blue-Jay]

@Michael Lusk looks like you had a great summer with those beans. There was a Candian grower in Ontario that grew Grandma Rivera's last year and it did crazy well for them too. A Tennessee grower had a tough time also with Joycy Fetterly's red and white. Same trouble, "rabbits".

 

[Blue-Jay]

@Ridgerunner, Had a Canadian grower grow your Tyra named bean this summer and it grew true to type. Seeds came back dark purple. No segregations.

This Canadian grower farms in Ontario. His wife and one bean interested son actually do the network bean grow outs. What I was flabbergasted about that she told me recently. She got one of my original beans "Bird Egg Blue" a couple years ago. It's a bit of a late bean but does well for them. This year they grew 9 x 30 foot rows of the bean. It's probably one of their food beans when they start growing that much. They must have gotten a bit over 30 pounds of the bean. The most I've seen of any of my grow outs in about 2 pounds of one variety in a good year.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Tyra, those were out of the Will Bonsall #39 that also segregated into Karachaganak, Jas, and Banzala along with others. Glad to hear they did well with them. I also grew Tyra in 2017 and it also produced true for me. I was planning on growing it a couple of other times to confirm it stayed true before I mentioned it to you. I'm doing that with a few others.

 

[Blue-Jay]

@flowerbug, A lot of those Robert Lobitz purple podded beans that have the Blooming Prairie seed coat have pods that look like they've been waxed and polished. Real Shiny. Fun to look when they are growing. I need to do a collection of photos when the bean pods are in there snap stage. I've got a lot of pod photos that are dry pods. Maybe after I get through all the bean photos I will do the pods, but no histories on the bean varieties. Just the pod photos.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Russ's Bean Show Day #7​

"DANISH CAT". Saw this bean posted on Facebook last year. It was so neat looking I just wanted to grow some so I did a trade with a woman in Denmark that had them. The grow out of these this year did not yield beans that looked liked the original. I got round podded beans and oval poded beans. The round pods wrinkled like a lot of round podded snap bean varieties do when they dry. The oval pods dried smooth. The First photo is the Danish Cat seed I originally received. The rest of the photos are everything this grow out produced.

"Danish Cat" - Bush

"Danish Cat Segregation 2018"

"Danish Cat Segregation 2018"

Danish Cat Segregation 2018"

"STEARNS PINTO" Bush Dry. Another of the Robert Lobitz legacy beans I've been working with since 2015. This bean threw off one segregation. The segregant plant had dark mottled seed coat and was a semi runner.

"Stearns Pinto" - Bush Dry

Stearns Pinto 2018 Segregation

"DOG" - Bush Dry. I ran into this bean originally through John Withee's Wanigan catalog in the late 1970's. I think Withee's catalog had it listed as "Dog Bean". I reacquired the bean in the fall of 2011 from Amy Hawk in Calahan, Colorado with her Simply Beans website. This bean will hold the Jacob's Cattle pattern for me in an Illinois summer where as Jacob's Cattle will turn just about all red with little to no white on the beans. This year was my fourth grow out of the beans since 2012.

"Dog" - Bush Dry

"EARLY STEARNS" - Bush Dry. This is a Robert Lobitz bean that Robert did name and release through the SSE yearbook while he was still living. I've acquired the bean through two different sources and the beans all look pretty much the same. However it's really become something that makes me wonder where this is going. I've gotten several seed coats from the bean in different seasons. Someday I think I'm going to settle on my version of the beans seed coat and say that's Early Stearns. The first photo is the bean that I received originally I think around 2015. The second photo is what I grew in 2016. The third photo is what I grew from seed of another source that I thought was closest to the seed I planted. The fourth photo is from more seed I had left over and it produced results the looked pretty much like what I got in 2016.

"Early Stearns" my original looking seed

" Early Stearns 2016"

"Early Stearns 2017"

2018 Early Stearns will be in the next post.


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[Blue-Jay]

"Early Stearns 2018"

 

[Blue-Jay]

These also were other segregations I got from Early Stearns in 2017.

Early Stearns segregation 2017

Early Stearn Segregation 2017"

"Early Stearns Segregation 2017"

In 2017 I also had one plant that had a white blossom while all the rest of the plants had pink blossoms.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Annette I know you from garden web days too. Same name as on here. Have you heard of the fingerprint Fava from Peru? I’m looking to grow it out this coming year and redistribute it, finding seed in the US is difficult. There is someone on the SSE that has it labeled as Tarma spiral, so fingers crossed I can get some from her. She said her seed came to her crossed, as originally they are all green expressions and this has some purple with it.

Sorry I never answered your question. I’m in zone 5, southeastern Wi. I live maybe an hour or so south of Zeedman.

If that source doesn't work out, Sacred Succulents carries a fingerprint fava under the name of "Ojo de Dios". It's a little smaller seeded that most of the other fingerprints but otherwise more or less the same.