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Sat, Jul 16, 11 at 21:20
| I knew I had put only two Sunset runner seeds per each small trellis. Each seed germinated, but the last one to come up was a stunted stem, stripped of leaves. This happened to several of my recently emerging beans due to the hot weather putting a crust on the surface. Figured that the stem would eventually leaf out from a node like most of the others did, so I watched it. It took several days before it began to show tiny leaves, but before that, another stem came up beside it, and inch away from it! Now I don't know which is the bean and which is the weed, have to wait for more leaves to be sure.
Well, today, it looked like they both had bean leaves. So I pulled soil away down about 2 inches where the bean was planted and what do you know, both stems are joined at the bottom. A single runner bean seed sent up first one shoot, then another shoot from the roots. Has anyone ever seen that happen? |
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| Yes, Happy, it has happened to me as well. Hypogeal seeds will often send up a second shoot if the first one is damaged. |
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| Thanks Zeedman I had not noticed that before. This is only the third runner bean I've grown. I pulled my favas today, they have 5 stems per plant, but the branching was above ground, not below. |
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