Anyone else had poor bean germination?
Last post 09-06-2009 9:56 AM by Celtic Heart. 8 replies.
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08/06/2009 06:45 PM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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I'm growing a variety of beans this year, mainly pencil pod and either bush and climbing, and have noticed some really poor germination rates. I contacted the seed company and they said that they've similar stories from other people, and not just with their beans either. Has anyone else had the same experience this year?
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08/06/2009 07:27 PM
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- BB
- Hereford
- 12 May 2009
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Yes I have noticed that too. I thought it was me doing something wrong!!! I started my runner beans off in pots under cover , as I did last year. I had to sow a second batch about 3 weeks later as only half of them had germinated compared to all of them last year. Of the second sowing only about half of those also germinated. I eventually got enough I'm glad to say and thay are all doing O.K. now they are planted out although they dont seem as well advanced as the same time last year.
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08/06/2009 07:50 PM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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Same here, BB, only I've had to make three sowings, which is vexing. My plants haven't come on as much as last year either. Did you question the seed company at all? Anyone else?
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08/06/2009 08:06 PM
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- Phot's-Moll
- The sunny South coast.
- 06 Jan 2007
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Germination results for my french and runner beans haven't been quite as good as usual.
Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.
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08/06/2009 09:03 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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I had almost 100% germination from broad beans and about 80% with runner beans. The dwarf beans are a different story, only about a third germinated but they were from a packet that was opened last year.
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08/06/2009 10:50 PM
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- Digger
- Northern UK
- 18 Jul 2005
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I misread this thread earlier uyes I've had a full tray of french beans and not one germinated!!!!!! I did have some cobra that did okay, my runners haven't germinated yet? I wonder what the devil is going on? maybe the big agro chemical comapnies have finally struck with their devious plan??,
The dastardly plan was was that eventually all seeds would be coated with a chemical, the chemical is alledged to keep the seed from rotting and makes it store for longer, but to get the seed out of dormancy requires the application of another chemcal which is watered on at sowing time, and it's the same company making both chemicals. I can't remember the company right now, it's a big well known one, and I can't remember where I read the story or I might have dreamed it whilst my new meds were "kicking in"? but it's a spooky tale of the future or is it already happening now??
digger 
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09/06/2009 07:48 AM
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My Cobra beans have germinated well but I think they are further behind than beans that I've had in previous years, they have no flowers as yet and haven't reached the top of the canes.
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09/06/2009 09:53 AM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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It wasn't your meds, digger, there are several companies looking at producing seed that will only germinate when activated by a certain chemical and they are all applying for patents. All the more reason to grow, save and then distribute heritage seed. Interesting that your French beans haven't germinated. I also had a full tray where nothing happened and couldn't figure it out.
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09/06/2009 09:56 AM
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Dreadful problems. Started everything off indoors for the first time ever to try and get a jump on the season. My peas, once in the ground, have put on virtually zero growth and are already podding. The pods look way out of proportion to the plants but taste fine. My broad beans are pretty much in the same state, full of flower but only about 1' high. My runner beans are the weakest looking I have seen for some time, and not really doing much of anything. I have started a second crop of both beans last week out of desperation to get something, and I am going to plant a pea hedge (like Hugh Fernly-Whittingstall showed on tv last week) as soon as the weather clears up a bit and the veg plot is less like a mud wallow.
One is nearer God's heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth.
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