Post by blueadzuki on Feb 24, 2012 18:39:20 GMT -5
Hi all,
Okay, the situation is like this. Amongst the thing's I've grown over the years (often by accident) is a legume that is known as a rice bean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigna_umbellata). Normally this legume cannot be grown around her, as it is very very day length sesitive (if you plant seed it will come up just fine, and grow quite vigorously, but will never flower). However, starting last year to my surprise I managed to pick up some brand of bulk rice bean in Chinatown that is NOT day length sensitive, and therfore WILL flower and set seed (now if I could only figure out which one!). It's also odd in that, while the standard rice bean is a fully indeterminate vine, the flowering ones are determinate to semi determinate bush to half bush beans (the first year, the flowering plants grew as very short straight up and down plants that did not climb. The second year the flowerers began as bush type plants and stayed bush type long enough to remove all the "normals" (due to circumstances both year the planting was a mix of the two types and the ordinary indeterminate version grows something like 4x faster than the flowering type, so you have to pull them out or they will strangle any flowerers) but began to turn into vines around the time they actually flowered. After two years of growing I think I now have enough seed that I can afford to share some out to other interested parties, and am inclined to do so, if for no other reason that to ensure that, should I have a total crop failre one of these seasons, there is a backup somewhere else. All the money I am asking is just whatever it costs to ship the seed to you. At the moment I'm only offering the "standard" color (for these that is red with no speckles or mottling); hopefully in future years I can also distribute some of the other colors (white, tan, red white and tan with black speckles and mottling, black, blue, and pinto). Now for the "strings" I mentioned
1. While I have enough seed to share, I don't have a LOT of seed to share. So each person is going to have to be limited for the moment to 100 seeds (that sounds like a lot, but since these beans are only a little bigger than mung beans, you need a lot of plants to get a decent number of beans, so you'll probably need to grow them for a year or two before you have enough to eat. If I can ever figure out which brand produced these beans (and thus be able to buy them by the pound) I will let everyone know.
2. I would appreciate it if the people who take me up on this offer restrict themselves to those living in zone 7 or higher. See when I say these are day length insensitive, it might be more accurate to say they are "Less day length sensitive" They will flower, and will set fruit and the fruit will mature, but it takes a little longer season wise than we get around me. I'm in Zone 6b and I can usually get maybe 30-50% of the crop mature enough to re-plant by the time the frosts come. So I would prefer if most of the seed goes to people with longer growning seasons than me.
if anyone is interested let me know or PM me.
Blueadzuki
Okay, the situation is like this. Amongst the thing's I've grown over the years (often by accident) is a legume that is known as a rice bean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigna_umbellata). Normally this legume cannot be grown around her, as it is very very day length sesitive (if you plant seed it will come up just fine, and grow quite vigorously, but will never flower). However, starting last year to my surprise I managed to pick up some brand of bulk rice bean in Chinatown that is NOT day length sensitive, and therfore WILL flower and set seed (now if I could only figure out which one!). It's also odd in that, while the standard rice bean is a fully indeterminate vine, the flowering ones are determinate to semi determinate bush to half bush beans (the first year, the flowering plants grew as very short straight up and down plants that did not climb. The second year the flowerers began as bush type plants and stayed bush type long enough to remove all the "normals" (due to circumstances both year the planting was a mix of the two types and the ordinary indeterminate version grows something like 4x faster than the flowering type, so you have to pull them out or they will strangle any flowerers) but began to turn into vines around the time they actually flowered. After two years of growing I think I now have enough seed that I can afford to share some out to other interested parties, and am inclined to do so, if for no other reason that to ensure that, should I have a total crop failre one of these seasons, there is a backup somewhere else. All the money I am asking is just whatever it costs to ship the seed to you. At the moment I'm only offering the "standard" color (for these that is red with no speckles or mottling); hopefully in future years I can also distribute some of the other colors (white, tan, red white and tan with black speckles and mottling, black, blue, and pinto). Now for the "strings" I mentioned
1. While I have enough seed to share, I don't have a LOT of seed to share. So each person is going to have to be limited for the moment to 100 seeds (that sounds like a lot, but since these beans are only a little bigger than mung beans, you need a lot of plants to get a decent number of beans, so you'll probably need to grow them for a year or two before you have enough to eat. If I can ever figure out which brand produced these beans (and thus be able to buy them by the pound) I will let everyone know.
2. I would appreciate it if the people who take me up on this offer restrict themselves to those living in zone 7 or higher. See when I say these are day length insensitive, it might be more accurate to say they are "Less day length sensitive" They will flower, and will set fruit and the fruit will mature, but it takes a little longer season wise than we get around me. I'm in Zone 6b and I can usually get maybe 30-50% of the crop mature enough to re-plant by the time the frosts come. So I would prefer if most of the seed goes to people with longer growning seasons than me.
if anyone is interested let me know or PM me.
Blueadzuki