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Weird French beans

CollareddoveCollareddove Posts: 173
in Fruit & veg
I have a good crop of climbing french beans again this year, but about 25% of the beans seem distorted and small. (But they taste ok) These are not on specific plants but any of the plants can have a proportion of these beans while the remainder are normal.  The variety is Cobra
I'm having trouble trying to insert a photo - will keep trying.


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  • CollareddoveCollareddove Posts: 173
    Here's the photo, I hope...
  • diggersjodiggersjo Posts: 172
    They look like a few of ours we had missed and that don't develop properly, not too sure why - last of the truss/poor weather at time?
    Yorkshire, ex Italy and North East coast. Growing too old for it!
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    the problem is incomplete pollination. 
  • sutton.langleysutton.langley Posts: 38
    A good number of my Cobra are the same, Though plenty are normal length.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Found similar here too with the Cobra.  Those beans affected seem mostly to be on those stems which are attacked by slugs/snails.  
  • CollareddoveCollareddove Posts: 173
    Interesting @war garden 572 but as Cobra beans are self fertile how can incomplete pollination happen?
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    edited August 2023
    self fertile does not mean what you think it does.
    means the flower pollinates itself.  pollination
    can still fail. do to several factors. 
     
    you are confusing parthenocarpic and self pollinating. 
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    As usual you are at cross purposes with yourself @war garden 572 trying to confuse the OP. Parthenocarpy hasn't even been mentioned. I suggest you look up self fertile and self pollination.
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    so sue me it is only 9 am here
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    I would much rather you jogged off somewhere else that would be enough for me 😁
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