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[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 22​

Epsilon - Bush Dry. Here is another cross I've been growing and just aching for it to stabalize so I can share it with as many as might want it. Epsilon, fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. Epsilon Eridani a nearby star system with exoplanets.

Epsilon Ot 1 - Bush Dry
Epsilon Ot 2 - Bush Dry

Early Stearns - Bush Dry. A Robert Lobitz named bean. I got this from Will Bonsall about 2015 and his seed had an oval dark brown patch around the eye. The rest of the seeds surface was white. Will was the only one to list ES in the SSE yearbook. After planting his bean it never looked like his bean. It took on a whole new look. It must have looked so enticing that Mandy at Mandy's Greenhouse asked me for a start of the bean. This years seed isn't nearly as pretty as it is some seasons with more white on the seed coat.


Epsilon - Bush Dry............................................Epsilon Off Type 1 - Bush Dry



Epsilon Off Type 2 - Bush Dry.........................Early Stearns - Bush Dry

 

[heirloomgal]

@Blue-Jay I don't know if it's realistic to ask you this since you have so many limas in your huge collection, but just off the top of your head, is there any that come to mind as being especially early? Or do you think that they're all, more or less, just a late maturing species?

I have gotten a few this year to try from some local vendors, none of them are special, just chatgpt recommended ones based on earliness. But I wonder if among collectors some of the more rare & special ones are knowns as earlies.