• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • John F Dean
  • Timothy Norton
  • Nancy Reading
  • r ranson
  • Jay Angler
  • Pearl Sutton
stewards:
  • paul wheaton
  • Tereza Okava
  • AndrĂ©s Bernal
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
gardeners:
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • M Ljin
  • Matt McSpadden

Beans for Canada / Harricana ?

 
Posts: 7
3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hello, I'm contacting you with a question about beans from Canada. I was brought some dry beans that were named "Harricana" because of the story telling that they come from a tribe that lived along the river, but no further details are available. Therefore, it would be an heirloom variety.

What I'm sure of: the beans were black when sown, dating back to 2019.

I'm looking for information regarding propagation. When I sowed them, I sowed black seeds, all uniform in color.

After a planting season and waiting for the pods to dry, upon shelling, I discovered beans that were 90% white, 5% yellowish, and 5% black.

When a pod had a black bean, all were black (same for the white). When, by chance, two pods were still attached by the branch at shelling, both pods had black beans (observed twice).

After 2 weeks of drying, no white to black conversion.
Same with forced drying. I also tested waiting 2 weeks on the vine, with an equivalent ratio (I had white grains that had already germinated in the pod!)

Given the age and storage, I had a germination rate of 30-40%.

Does anyone here know the name of this variety? Do you have any information on the changing color of the grains?
Thanks for your interest!

Here's a photo of the harvest:
20250915_165406.jpg
[Thumbnail for 20250915_165406.jpg]
 
What's brown and sticky? ... a stick. Or a tiny ad.
montana community seeking 20 people who are gardeners or want to be gardeners
https://permies.com/t/359868/montana-community-seeking-people-gardeners
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic