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Saving Bean seeds

14 years ago

Hi all. This is my first year saving seed. When harvesting my brown dried bean pods, several branches broke off with greenish yellow pods and even green pods, though they were on the tougher side of green. My question is this: Can I save these seeds too?? I am hoping maybe they just need to dry longer, but need help.

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remy_gw
14 years ago
Hi,
The greenish yellow pods are probably fine and as you thought they just need to dry longer. The green are more iffy. If the beans are completey mature within maybe. You can try and see. It won't hurt anything to do so. If you are trading, you should hold on to the green pod ones and only trade the other seeds in case germination is not as good.
Remy
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