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Newbe to Broad Bean Aquadulce Claudia planted on a bright windowsill in early Februrary.

I'm sure I remember BB seedlings being stocky with quite tough bluey green leaves.

My Claudias look more like big leafed peas. Light green with leaves every inch and a half.

Any ideas ?

I think they would have been okay outdoors - that would have made them grow a bit slower and more stocky.

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I'm not growing them this year, but last year, I sowed some directly into the ground, outside, with no protection, about this time of year and they came up great guns with no problems.

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Yep, I'm afraid they're not happy about being warm and they don't have enough light.

They are fully hardy and should be sown and grown outside, allbeit with a little shelter if necessary.

Try and harden them off and get them outside asap.

Mine are in the cold frame and are short and stocky. Treat them hard!

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of course, I have to admit that mine have been in the cold frame... and arE pretty much dead.

We've had a cold winter (at night)

Mice eat my outdoor sowings.

Theyre in a unheated room. Not a variety issue then ?

Leave them alone and with any luck they will send up other shoots from the bottom if it only the tops that have suffered.

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Sorry to jump in here folks - but can broadies be sown into guttering in a cold frame now (I'm doing my peas at the weekend and thought I might try a few broadies as well?!) ??

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You can certainly sow now Sue - I put mine into modules but I can't see why guttering wouldn't work. The reason I use modules is so I can plant them out in blocks but you would simpley get a single row in guttering. Shouldn't be a problem.

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They really don't need to be indoors. I'm lucky as I have a cold greenhouse so I start mine in there. Not too warm and plenty of light.

Well I've re-sown outside in the cold frame.

I've butchered (pinched out) my old plants at various leaf nodes and will report back when they die or fail to crop

All of mine got eaten by mice as well Maf. I've re-sown indoors, but will put them outside just as soon as they have opened their first set of leaves.

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Have some nice plant in flower on the lottie sown last Sept/Oct. Ive tried to get a batch germinated in the last couple of weeks but they just dont want to know. I may be using to much heat so will try a third lot just in cold greenhouse. Could also be the seed. Just hope a few bees appear to pollenate the ones in flower.
Ian

I did a test.

Sowed in peat pots

2 Outdoors
2 On windowsill
2 In heated propagator

Heated propagator failed completely
Windowsill and outdoors germinated at the same time but indoors was leggy