The magic beans are doing well. Here are some pics along the way and a few random notes.
beans at day 10
beans at about 6 weeks
first blooms
Miscellaneous notes:
- The beans took about a week to come up. I watered them daily until they were about 6″ high and then less frequently after that.
- The germination rate was close to 100%.
- Somewhere around week 2, the leaves of the beans started getting eaten pretty good. I suspect cutter bees. Since they aren’t around much and are supposed to do more good than harm, I decided to just leave them and see what happened.
- As expected, the cutter bees didn’t stay around long. They did a fair amount of damage, but nothing that couldn’t be overcome.
- At about 4 weeks, the monsoons hit, and the beans started growing much faster (like everything else).
- Today, at about 6 weeks, we saw the first blooms. I had heard they would be very pretty and red. these are a dark orange. We’ll see how the others look.