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[Blue-Jay]

yes, @Blue-Jay i have seen some of those variations. i'm not growing out VBE that often any more though now but if i see that color/pattern come up i'll save them for you.

I think from now on I will grow only the pink one with the red eye patch. That's the one I would really like to have stabllize.

 

[Artorius]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 49​

Tres Hatif De Massey - Bush Snap (Photo Right) This is a French snap bean. Nice flavor and stringless. William Woys Weaver set me out to find this one. I obtained it from my European contacts and I believe they acquired it from IPK the German seed bank. I sent some to Will and he wrote back and told me that it is not correct that Tres is a white seeded bean. Maybe I should give that bean some sort of name and leave it go at that. Will says he knows German and is going to look into the IPK website and try to figure out what is the correct name of this bean.

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@Blue-Jay, these seeds look exactly like Fin de Villeneuve, the second variety you received from IPK Gatersleben.

With your permission, I kept five seeds each of Tres Hatif de Massy and Fin de Villeneuve as network beans. Last year, I sowed three seeds of each and kept two as a reserve. The seeds I harvested in the fall matched those I sowed. The Tres Hatif de Massy were white. This year I will have more plants and I hope that in the fall I will have 60 nice seeds of both varieties for you.