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[Heliena]

This is the bean, they had it labeled as a bush bean. Theres also a woman's name here, but I haven't been able to come up with anything.

Excuse the lighting of my fish tank.

I do think I can contact the teacher from the school though, she may know more.

 

[heirloomgal]

My bad, it was King of the Garden I was thinking of that's a lima bean. https://victoryseeds.com/products/king-of-the-garden-pole-lima-bean

Wow, I have no idea what that bean is then. It actually looks quite like @Blue-Jay 's 'Candy' bean, which is a semi. I'm not sure from the photo if that's pink or purple, Candy is pink. There is another bean that is somewhat of a twin to Candy called 'Fiesta' and its a true bush bean.

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[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 46​

Rio Zape - Semi Runner. Previous seasons allowed me to just grow small amounts of seed. Pods were always dried indoors mostly green. This past summers extended warmth and sunshine allowed for nearly all the pods to dry on the vine. The quality of the seed was the best I've had yet of this bean. It was amazing for me to see Rio Zape grow and cure as it did.

Romanian Speckled Plum - Pole Dry. This is a Joseph Simcox discovered bean sent to me by a Marion, Iowa high school student in 2017. I wonder if Joseph named the bean. I decided to take the Large out of the name as the beans didn't wind up large but a fair bit smaller. The seed quality was nice just not large.


Rio Zape...............................................................Romanian Speckled Plum

 

[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 46​

Rose - Pole Snap. Said to be a snap bean grown by the Rose family in Panola, Madison county Kentucky. Nicely productive and an Ohio Pole look-a-like.


Sacre Bleu - Semi Runner. A bean developed by Lisa Bloodnick of Appalachin, New York through a selection process. This is a bean I have to grow out frequently as people request various varieties of blue and purple beans.


Rose.......................................................................Sacre Bleu

 

[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 46​

San Fiarce - Pole Snap. The bean was sent to me by @ruralmamma in the fall of 2024. Nicely productive. Good quality of seed. It did seem that I couldn't let the pods get much beyond 5 inches as it seemed stringy to me.

Schneebohne - Pole Dry. Thankfully received from @heirloomgal in the fall of 2024. This bean was the star of my 2024 season as far as seed production goes. 4 plants produced just under 2 pounds of beans (869 g) in a not so great of summer.


San Fiarce.............................................................Schneebohne

 

[flowerbug]

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Sacre Bleu - Semi Runner. A bean developed by Lisa Bloodnick of Appalachin, New York through a selection process. This is a bean I have to grow out frequently as people request various varieties of blue and purple beans.

all of the times i've grown that one from my original sample (now gone) it has grown as a pole bean but also it has never come out as a solid blue color, it has always had some markings on the seed coat as if it was a silver pinto pattern overlay and also it's grown tall enough i'd consider it a pole bean. i won't grow it any longer as i've now eaten or have given away any known traces of it but the genetics may be wandering around my bean patches now as i'm planting all sorts of out-crosses each season.

that said the color it has when first shelled out is the bright blue that is great to see - too bad it gets so dark (i don't know if frozen would stop the blue from getting darker).

 

[heirloomgal]

The look of 'Schneebohne' for some reason always brings to my mind yogurt covered raisins...

 

[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 47​

Seda Kravicka - Pole Dry. (Photo Left). Obtained from a grower in the Czech Republic in 2020. The bean grew well and produced about the average amount of seed of good quality. It's name means
"Grey Cow".

Seminole - Bush Green Snap. (Photo Right). The bean grew very well for me as it usually does. The bean was bred by the Everglades Experiment Station in Belle Glade, Florida, named after Seminole country in Florida and released in 1955. It will resist various strians of rust, mildew and is resistant to BCMV. I grew last years 20 bean plants on 2014 seed kept in the freezer for 11 years. Germination was about 98%. The plants always produce a excellent quality of seed. 20 plants gave me 3 ounces (85 g) under 2 pounds (907 g)

 

[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 47​

September Blue - Pole Snap Dry ? (Photo Left). This bean is a segregation of one of the bean in one of the Will Bonsall packets of outcrossed seed. I've been growing this bean from time to time since 2015. It's seed mother had tan seed. Another of the beans that struggled this past summer but enough nice seed to try to move forward another generation. The seeds are blue and the phone cameras are terrible for bean close-ups.

Serenity - Semi Runner (Photo Right) There was an off type seed in White Robin in 2014 that climbed all over the place and up poles being used to steak tomatoes. I called the White Robin off type Super Bean. In 2020 I planted Super bean again for the second time and it produced some plants that produced this elongated white bean with a flesh toned eye patch. This is the second time I've grown Serenity and it has not produced any off types both times. The bean is quite productive.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 47​

Sloveen - Bush Dry. (Photo Left) I don't particularly like numbers in bean names. This bean was previously Slovenia II. Probably named by Joseph Simcox. It didn't produce well this past summer as I thought it was a pole bean and planted it among pole beans. It would probably be happier and much more productive growing with the bush beans.

Solon Mills - Pole Dry. (Photo Right) This bean comes out of one of the seed packets of out crossed seeds sent to me by Will Bonsall in 2015. Named in 2018 and I believe this was about the third time growing this bean and I haven't seen any off types yet. Will be tried again in 2026 in a different location that should tell me something about it's productivity. Seed mother is Bobolink.