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Post by macmex on Aug 29, 2018 5:43:09 GMT -6
Glen, Merry lives in a temperate zone, at a fairly high elevation. Merry says she can't handle the heat at lower elevations. She has a relatively good rate of precipitation, only having to water from time to time. Actually, Merry sent me seed after having grown this bean for quite some years. She has since stopped gardening due to age and health issues.
It did fine for me, here in Oklahoma, in spite of the heat, but it didn't start flowering until quite late. I suspect it will be good for anyone in the deep South, who is willing to plant for a fall crop and has at least 100 days of frost free weather after the blast furnace of mid summer. It might conceivably be good for someone in a very mild part of the Pacific Northwest.
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Post by glen on Aug 30, 2018 12:05:59 GMT -6
Well, my vines looked good for me also. I have posted foto's. They put on a very big bloom for me also after about 60 to 70 days. Then the blooms fall off the vines. No fruit set. Obviously my temps are much too high for this variety. When I did produce seed, the first bloom set also did not set fruit. It bloomed again later. Much later. Then, a few blooms did set fruit. Enough for me to save some seed. This was during a cooler time of the season I do believe, when it was raining quite a bit. Like I said, if you run into someone who does live in an elevated area, or an area with cooler temps, we can send them some seed. Its quite possible that I have the last remaining bit of seed for this variety in the known Gringo legume world. I checked the seed the other day and it looks nice and fresh still. It needs a home. I am pretty sure I have at least 500 seeds. There seems to be no demand for this seed, since it is such an obscure, unknown variety. Do you think we can rescue it?
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