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Beans, danger of cross pollination?
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06-04-2011, 10:46 AM
Owdboggy
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David in Normandy[_8_]
For the first time I'm growing broad beans. However I always grow runner
beans and collect some of the dried pods for the following years seeds.
Runner bean variety "Streamline" or at least that is what it said on the
original packet ten years ago! I've always found it a good strong
variety, pest resistant and the pods string-less. Could broad beans
cross pollinate with the runner beans and lead to hybrid bean seeds for
planting next year? I'm also assuming such crosses would not be desirable?
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Runner beans are Phaseolus coccineus and Broad beans are Vicia faba so not even related so the chances of them crossing are rather remote.
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