On 10/05/2011 08:07 PM, Gary Woods wrote:
Dave Hill wrote:

I've always understood if you plant from runts you will loose the
quality, select for improvement.
I'm not sure about the seeds themselves if they came from good plants, but
surely a small seed will have less food in it, so the plant will be slower
at the starting gate?
I surely know that with garlic, planted from cloves, the biggest cloves
produce the biggest bulbs.


With maples, larger seed is more vigorous; it doesn't always produce the
most interesting seedlings though.

I'd guess that for beans, bigger is better for the reasons Gary gave.