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    No pods/beans on my dwarf runners!

    I am growing dwarf runner beans in a pot, think they are hestia.
    They look really healthy with plenty of red and white flowers.
    However the flowers fall off and I get no beans.
    I wondered if it is to do with pollination - but there are plenty of bees in the garden.
    Any ideas?


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  • #2
    Sounds like a pollination problem. I grew dwarf runners a couple of years ago and I didn't find them as nearly prolific as the full grown variety.


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    • #3
      Spraying them with water may help.
      Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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      • #4
        I've had the same problem with my "Stardust" - loads of flowers, but they fall off. Its been really dry here - we have missed the showers that have been around for the past few days, and I've been spraying the flowers with water when I water them. We are due rain tomorrow and it will be interesting to see if that improves things.
        A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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        • #5
          It has also been very dry here so as roitelet suggests I may try spraying them for a while and see if that helps.


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          • #6
            "the old idea that misting runner beans with water helps them to set pods is a myth."

            Sue Stickland: Runner beans | Life and style | The Guardian


            "Don’t mist or syringe the flowers with water (as used to be advocated) as this has not been shown to help pod-set"

            Runner beans: failure to set pods/RHS Gardening
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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            • #7
              Thanks for that - I always thought lack of moisture was the main reason, but this is the first time in 15 years that I have tried to grow runner beans.
              A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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              • #8
                As an update.
                I moved the dwarf runners down to the flower part of the garden and I now have loads of inch long beans.
                Not sure if it was the bees that helped or if I just had to be more patient!


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