My Purple Pole Beans

[june]

I love these purple pole beans...I guess they're a mix of something--mixed before I bought the seeds.  In 2019, I bought a pack of 'Purple Tee Pee'--which is suppose to be a bush bean.  Most of the seeds were bush beans, but a few grew into pole beans.  The bush beans were not impressive, but the pole beans were great (and delicious).  I saved the seeds of the pole beans and have grown them each year since.

[june]

I always picked them young and small, but they were delicious and never a string.  Fun to pick because they're so easy to see.

[june]

I grew enough to freeze some, and I could tell when they had blanched enough by the color change.

[june]

I've been getting my soil ready, passing a cold windy day here--anticipating planting these again as soon as I get a warm day!  Looking back at my purple pole bean pictures from last year.

[chrysanthemum]

Thanks for starting this thread, June, and for posting those beautiful pictures. My younger daughter who is nine now particularly loves growing purple plants in the garden, and we did well with some purple pole beans (just called Purple Pole) two falls ago. I didn’t save any seeds from them, though, because they were interplanted with two other varieties. It’s great that you’ve been able to keep your variety going.

This spring we have planted a purple filet pole bean called Carminat. It’s new to me, and I’m not really sure how it will do in our heat, but the plants that are coming up look good so far. I’m always excited when they get big enough to start making use of our trellis. These particular beans are planted by an arched cattle panel, so they should have some room to grow if I can keep them alive and well this summer.

[macmex]

Beautiful beans! 
There are two possible reasons this bean showed up in the Purple Tepee seed; 1) that it was simply a mutation. Can't remember what the substance is called, but I've read that bush beans are bush because they lack a single hormone (or something like that) which the plants do not produce. If provided with it, they turn into pole beans. or 2) Purple Tepee got crossed. I had this happen with Fowler Bush Bean back in 2008 and in 2009 I had a "sky scraper bean" appear out of my Fowler planting. It looked just like Fowler, but with slightly longer pods. I sent some of that seed to a friend up North and he worked with it, selecting it to its own variety. 

What you have, for whatever the reason it appeared, is a very worthy, new, variety!

[chrysanthemum]

Apr 17, 2022 5:37:06 GMT -6 macmex said:

Beautiful beans! 
There are two possible reasons this bean showed up in the Purple Tepee seed; 1) that it was simply a mutation. Can't remember what the substance is called, but I've read that bush beans are bush because they lack a single hormone (or something like that) which the plants do not produce. If provided with it, they turn into pole beans. or 2) Purple Tepee got crossed. I had this happen with Fowler Bush Bean back in 2008 and in 2009 I had a "sky scraper bean" appear out of my Fowler planting. It looked just like Fowler, but with slightly longer pods. I sent some of that seed to a friend up North and he worked with it, selecting it to its own variety. 

What you have, for whatever the reason it appeared, is a very worthy, new, variety!

I just went to the Victory Seeds site linked above and read about George’s Fowler Pole Green Bean.  It’s so great that you had someone who could grow that seed out for you and stabilize it.  It sounds like a great bean.

[john]

That looks like a great bean. We love the purple ones too. They are usually the first bean we plant in the spring.

[john]

In the Johnnies seed catalog they state that the brown seeded bean seeds are better to germinate in cold soil. I have found that to be true.