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  • Daft broad bean Question

    Ok I know this is a really daft question but:-
    My broad beans are chitting as per T_S 's instructions and are producing a white thing out the side. Is this the root or the stem . Just so's I know to plant them the right way up.
    ps I don't mind if you laugh.
    S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
    a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

    You can't beat a bit of garden porn

  • #2
    *Ching Binley! Not a daft question - that's the root! Once the root has got anchored it will send up the shoot.
    Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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    • #3
      Thanks Jeanied. Feel a bit of a plonker for asking but usually just stick them in compost and hope for the best
      S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
      a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

      You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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      • #4
        Gravity takes care of it anyway, the root knows to go down, and the shoot up, so even if they were upside down the plant would work it out eventually
        I could not live without a garden, it is my place to unwind and recover, to marvel at the power of all growing things, even weeds!
        Now a little Shrinking Violet.

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        • #5
          Is that a seed germination rule, I wonder, that the first thing to grow is the root?
          Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by BarleySugar View Post
            Gravity takes care of it anyway, the root knows to go down, and the shoot up, so even if they were upside down the plant would work it out eventually
            Not nessecelery ... I planted some 'upside down' one year, and the bean just grew round and round in spirals under the soil.
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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            • #7
              So which ways up ?
              S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
              a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

              You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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              • #8
                Up is when the bean is on its edge and the root is pointing downwards. It is more difficult to tell if the bean has not sprouted so people plant them on their edges rather than sides.
                Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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                • #9
                  AAH I can see clearly now . Shame it's not the magic piccies
                  S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                  a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                  You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                  • #10
                    Strange, about the gravity bit, I've never had any problems, and when I spoke to son no 2 about it, who's doing biology at uni, that was his explanation (he calls it geotropism). I better tell him it's not necessarily true. Seeds that fall from the plants must always fall the right way up I suppose.
                    Last edited by BarleySugar; 20-02-2010, 11:22 PM.
                    I could not live without a garden, it is my place to unwind and recover, to marvel at the power of all growing things, even weeds!
                    Now a little Shrinking Violet.

                    http://potagerplot.blogspot.com/

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                    • #11
                      That's an interesting one, BarleySugar - the bean would never fall from the pod and land on its edge. But when I left a whole pod on my lottie bench from late summer to autumn, it split and the whole row germinated in the position they were formed in. So it seems that the sowing position needs to imitate the seed distribution position.
                      Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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                      • #12
                        This is a guy talking about 'Runner beans. Same I guess for Broad beans.
                        Intresting what he has to say about them rotting if planted incorrectly.
                        Runners, Step Two
                        Never mind the TWADDLE here's the SIX PETALS.

                        http://vertagus.blogspot.com/ Annual seedlings.

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                        • #13
                          For donkeys years farmers have bunged in field beans by casting them willy nilly into the soil. They cope.
                          Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                          www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Jeanied View Post
                            Is that a seed germination rule, I wonder, that the first thing to grow is the root?
                            Yes, it is.
                            Sent from my pc cos I don't have an i-phone.

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                            • #15
                              Okay the rooting broad beans have now been sown with the root pointing down. Let's see if they grow now.
                              S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                              a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                              You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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