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

[heirloomgal]

Todays' collected pods, 'Brutt Buon' and 'Buenos Aires Rojo'.

 

[Decoy1]

Thank you @Decoy1 @Artorius , so it sounds like it did fairly well for you @Decoy1. I wouldn't describe my vines as terrible looking, but they aren't nearly as filled out or lush as pole beans typically get so I don't really know if anything is wrong or its just varietal. @Artorius if you think of it, when you grow it out I'd be curious to hear what you think of the growth. It's such an utterly gorgeous bean, it would be nice if it's capable of doing better than the line that I have.

Are your bean pods sickly looking or is it just the foliage,@heirloomgal?

I agree that it’s a very beautiful seed coat.

 

[flowerbug]

Could be Potawatomi Lima maybe, from Wisconsin.

i can see that.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Does anybody recognize these beans? from a photo in one of our exhibits about a Dakota (Sioux) community garden.

The Red beans with the dark markings look like Potawatomi lima.

 

[heirloomgal]

Are your bean pods sickly looking or is it just the foliage,@heirloomgal?

I agree that it’s a very beautiful seed coat.

The pods are fine, and the seeds I've harvested are fine, it's just the vines do not get big, and lush. I can't quite describe it, but they just seemed to lack vigor. The leaf shape was correct, and there did not seem to be any pathology present except that it doesn't grow aggressively as so many pole beans do. Given how unique the seeds are I really wonder if when the person selected for that seed type it genetically steered the variety towards poor vegetative genes. I do find that there are some beans which seem to grow amazing every time, every year and other beans not so much. The breeding is not equal variety to variety. I don't know if that's the case with Fagiola but I wonder. Maybe it needs more selection work.

 

[Decoy1]

The pods are fine, and the seeds I've harvested are fine, it's just the vines do not get big, and lush. I can't quite describe it, but they just seemed to lack vigor. The leaf shape was correct, and there did not seem to be any pathology present except that it doesn't grow aggressively as so many pole beans do. Given how unique the seeds are I really wonder if when the person selected for that seed type it genetically steered the variety towards poor vegetative genes. I do find that there are some beans which seem to grow amazing every time, every year and other beans not so much. The breeding is not equal variety to variety. I don't know if that's the case with Fagiola but I wonder. Maybe it needs more selection work.

I’ve put it on my list of beans to grow next year to see if I find the same.