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

[Blue-Jay]

this is related to my search for the parents of Purple Dove...

I wonder how anyone could find the parental combination that Robert Lobitz used to create Purple Dove. Most of what he released was bush beans. I would imagine that is what he mostly worked with. He worked with Purple Kidney beans. He had a snap bean called Purple Duke, Purple Queen and Royalty Purple Pod. These were the only purple podded beans I could see on his personal collection list that were purple podded.

 

[Decoy1]

interesting tidbit came across variety of bean called "Trionfo Violetto", but very few pictures of seeds of this variety. has anyone here grown it or found a good picture of the seeds themselves?

of course this is related to my search for the parents of Purple Dove...

the seeds appear to be pale to white and about the right shape and seed eye of a possible PD parental unit...

Hope this helps