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Post by glen on Mar 16, 2018 17:59:41 GMT -6
Zeedman, welcome to the forum. I live in Panama where my daylength ranges from 11.5 hours to 12.5 hours or so. This does present some problems for me since we don't have many places to buy seed here, and USA variety's don't always grow well here. I like the Long bean I am now growing however, it's not that good to eat steamed. I like regular fat pole beans with the seeds inside a lot better. I have not found pole bean seed yet that will grow well here in Panama, with the exception of this Long bean. Cowpea's love the climate here. Oh, just Click on the remember my password option so you don't have to log-in every time.
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Post by glen on Apr 10, 2018 20:21:27 GMT -6
I am allowing the pods to dry now and am collecting the pea's. This variety is very prolific and has anywhere between 10 and 20 pea's in a pod.
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Post by zeedman on Apr 10, 2018 23:11:42 GMT -6
Glen, I'm curious - have you tried growing hyacinth beans for snaps? They should do well in your climate, although I'm not sure how they would respond to the nematodes. Sword bean might also be worth trying. Both are vigorous pole habit, with highly fragrant flowers... and toxic seeds.
Still haven't finalized my grow list this year, but should be growing the Bush Sitao from the Philippines again. Rambles like a cowpea, but was bred for its light green, 8-9" high-quality immature pods. I plan on re-growing 3-Feet-Plus too, actually very similar to Bush Sitao in color & texture, but a pole variety with much longer pods - and some tolerance to salty soils. Both were supposed to be seed crops last year, but it was a strange year, and the seed was not good enough to save (same story with all but one cowpea). Interestingly, both varieties have calico brown & white seed, a trait shared by several other yard longs & cowpeas in my collection. Three more yard longs from the Philippines (including the daylength-sensitive variety I mentioned previously) also have the calico seed trait.
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Post by macmex on Apr 11, 2018 5:55:36 GMT -6
Last year was different. My Calico Willowleaf Pole Lima's, which normally make seed, didn't. I don't think I got much seed from Georgia Long Cowpea, and, for the first time, Tarahumara Pink Green Bean was nearly a flop on seed production. Yet frost dates weren't that different from normal.
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Post by glen on Apr 11, 2018 13:54:49 GMT -6
I am very interesting in trying new seed. However, I have a hard time getting it because of where I live. So far, the only vining rambling type of bean I can grow now is the Long Bean, which is a Cowpea. I could probably grow anything from the Phillipines since they have a climate that is similar to mine. My day length is super short, about 11.5 to 12 hours the entire year. George, I have checked for that seed you sent me several times. I need to check again because it has not reached me. It might be lost. Right now, I am growing a lot of peppers. I am having pretty good luck with peppers and have Probably 30 pots now with different types of peppers, mostly sweet variety's. I also started some cherry tomato's and have them in 6 gallon pots. If a plant is not nematode resistant I am better off growing it in pots. Of course, the nematodes are in the pots also. But, less.
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Post by glen on Apr 11, 2018 13:59:14 GMT -6
We do not have access to much of a variety of seed here because people do not garden here in Panama. The new generation believes that gardening is ignorant. Also, the people here do not believe in trying new things. The grocery store has a hand-full of different veggy's that are always sold. Any veggy that looks different will not be bought. The veggy has to fall into a specific look etc or it is ignored. The diet here is very low in veggy's and it shows in the general appearance of the population. They eat mostly carbs like plantain and potato and rice and they like to fry everything. They eat small portions of meats and poultry and huge portions of the white carbohydrates and no green veggy's. Its a diabetes factory here.
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Post by macmex on Apr 12, 2018 6:14:55 GMT -6
Sounds very unhealthy and not very tasty.
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Post by glen on Apr 12, 2018 18:03:03 GMT -6
It is very unhealthy. However, this kind of diet goes along with poverty. I live in one of the most poverty stricken area's I have ever lived in. They cannot afford to eat right. They are also very ignorant and uneducated in the country side. There is a lack of water here also. I still see quite a few homes without electricity and indoor plumbing. They use outhouses where I live quite abit and have dirt floor homes still being used here. During the time I have lived here a woman who lived in an apartment in Panama City explain to me that the reason that they don't eat veggy's here is because they cannot afford it. I believe it. Prices for food here are not cheap. The minimum wage in Panama City is 540 dollars per month and that is for working a 6 day week. Here where I live, a good salary for a laborer is 20 dollars per day. I have seen workers cash their checks in front of me at the Supermarket. A bi-monthly check that is average would only be 200 dollars here for a man trying to support a wife and family. People in the USA don't know what poverty is like.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 18, 2018 18:26:55 GMT -6
Welcome to the forum Zeedman.
Some of the best looking cabbage, onions, and broccoli I ever saw in my life came from the higher latitudes. I was really impressed to see what they could grow up there with the longer days while I was working the paper mills in Wisconsin.
I just happen to have some Hyacinth bean seeds that a lady from Welling sent me this Winter. From the photos, they look very prolific. I'm looking forward to trying some of them this Summer on an overhead trellis. I have a feeling the honey bees are going to love those blooms.
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