Let all of them grow! They'll eventually find the trellis and wind around it, too. To be honest, I've never heard of anyone removing pole bean shoots, but I suppose it isn't impossible -- I think you'd just decrease your bean production if you did.

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I AGREE with Anney, let them grow...BTW what typ; scratch that! you already answered .

Agreed-Let 'em grow. When I did pole beans, there were a few vines that had a hard time finding the net...Just let 'em go until there's enough length and place the vine on the net and it'll do the rest.

Takes about two trips a week or ten days apart to get all the vines trained to the net. After that the shoots will find it themselves.

Hey--thanks all--I have never grown them before--just bush beans, which were not successful. My pole beans vines are gorgeous and I can't believe how they have found the way up on their own. Some have about 4-5 tall already. A few leaves have had slug holes so I have pinched those off.