Runner beans not germinating

[Marb67]

Sowing into soil filled seed trays. Not risking direct for fear of slugs.

[Marb67]

Aaaaaaaand again rotted!!! No overwatering, warm conditions etc. It's absolutely ridiculous. The heritage ones have hardly come up either.

[Andraste]

how frustrating! It's getting a bit late now but if you have any seed left I'd suggest chitting first - at least it saves on wasted time & compost if they don't sprout & it's easy to check daily for progress x

[Nicos]

Sorry to see that Marb.
We’ve just resown more climbing french beans.

[Marb67]

Well I've put a lot more on plastic cells in water and labeled each one. Will drain tomorrow and keep wet and see. Some have also split in half and not rotted. It used to be so easy for me.

It's now become personal.

[sholtsgate]

Hi marb try to keep them cool especially tomorrow/tuesday gonna be a scorcher else the beans will think you chucked them in the saucepan and its cooking time.

Fingers crossed for you.

[sholtsgate]

Andraste is it really getting to late I was hopping to sow a few more mid/late July for a late crop being the climbing ones I planted outside are sort of growing don't thing there going to be bountiful.

The ones in the picture and the ones I want to sow are dwarf french beans I have never grown them before so don't know what the yield will be like.

I read that the dwarf varieties you only crop for a few weeks then that's it.

Darran

[Marb67]

It just doesn't make sense. It's not the compost or the beans and yet here I am. The beans are different varieties, seed companies, , all healthy and dry and mostly in date. I have never had a problem with runner beans.

As for the plastic cells, they are indoors at the cool end of the kitchen, not outside.

[Andraste]

I'd usually say by mid june for French & mid July for runners so there is time but not much. If your others aren't doing so well then I'd be inclined to get another lot going asap.

[Marb67]

More of the new Heritage beans are popping up so at least I'll have something. The ones still soaking will hopefully give at least a few more. I have never known a year like it for poor seed germination.

[Marb67]

Ok, good and bad news - All the heritage newly purchased beans have popped up. All the peas and beans that were soaking, after 2 days, just one variety of peas are sprouting. The rest smell a bit pongy and seem slimy. Again it baffles me why so many are going off considering I have grown peas and beans in the past from very old seed no problem.