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Old 31-10-2003, 08:42 PM
Jim Paterson
 
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Default Runner bean seeds


"Therefore" wrote in message
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Ideas please , I have grown, red rum, white emergo, and pink flowered
sunset.

Will these have cross pollinated or can I save these seeds and still have
seperate types.

These varieties are self pollinating and do very well, so would be good

use
the saved seeds.

......................Leslie

You will find that as in common with most legumes they have hooded

flowers, ie the sex parts are located within the keel and generally
protected from the activities of pollinating insects. On occasion you will
get cross pollination but that is the exception rather than the rule.
On hybridisation programmes to breed new varieties the hybridiser has to
strip the flowers to gain access. A good example of the rarity of this sort
of thing is sweetpeas where a commercial grower will find less than a
handful of rogues in a field of several acres.