HydroRed
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The picture is of GG4 with some Monkey Juice fem beans bustin out.Thanks brah. Yessir,that is indeed beans peeking.Some are fried leaf tips too. They haven't burst thru such as yours in that gorgeous pic. Strain? you know you can't just post that beauty and leave me unknowing. Preciatecha letting me know about the pics.
I have a question for folks that make/create beans.
Do you think bean size has anything to do with how soon the beats were pollinated? Meaning,if a plant is pollinated early on when the bracts aren't full-on golf balls & pistillate stigma.
Will they be larger since they were allowed to cook longer or will they be smaller because the bracts weren't large enough to carry big Beans?
Is it bract size that determine bean size?
I know genetics could possibly play a role or perhaps it is the sole force?
Just lifted off some good and the thought came to me while I was bean checking the other day which led me down that rabbit hole of thought.
My experience with your question is that I believe it is strain dependent. GG4 and most of its crosses usually tend to be smaller beans for me, while the Citrus MILF (which cooked up for just as long) were friggin boulders compared to everything else. I think time is more a factor for color of seeds and tiger striping, as well as how good the "seed skin" stays on the bean. I've seen some beans that once handled, the seed skin and all the coloring and tiger striping came right off really easy where as some others you couldnt scrub it off with a brillo.