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Post by hiven on Jan 1, 2009 9:51:30 GMT -5
I grow Hunan winged beans this year (out door) but most of them dried out and died when I was away during holiday and the only survival didn't do anything and died when the frost arrived. I am thinking of giving it another try next year before black listed it  . Have you got any luck in this Hunan type as it is said to be day length neutral... share me your experience please... thanks in advance.
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Post by utopiate on Feb 1, 2009 23:30:16 GMT -5
Check and see if it bears a tuber next time. I think wing beans may have an edible tuber but I dont know how they taste. I think in Pupua New Guinea there are tuber varieties, but the others may bear them as well, they just are usually not grown for tubers. Low yield I suppose.
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Post by raymondo on Feb 6, 2009 23:48:54 GMT -5
Are these Tetragonolobus purpureus?
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Post by canadamike on Feb 7, 2009 1:26:40 GMT -5
Psophocarpus tetra-gonolobus said to contain up to 20% protein
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Post by raymondo on Feb 7, 2009 6:14:29 GMT -5
Thanks Michel.
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Post by nicollas on Jan 7, 2014 9:10:41 GMT -5
Any source where to find these Hunan Winged Bean ? Baker Creeks seems not to carry them anymore. Echo has a day length neutral cultivat but shipping cost is about $75 to France, so it makes the seed quite expensive  |
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Post by blueadzuki on Jan 7, 2014 9:57:14 GMT -5
To cover everyone
Utopiate: Yes Wing Beans will make a tuber, but like a lot of tuber legumes, it's sort of an either/or seed-tuber choice to get a sizable tuber, you have to pinch off the flowers. If the plants didn't have the energy to make seed, they didn't have the energy to make a viable tuber.
Raymondo, Canadamike is correct. Tetragonalobus purpureus is the winged/asparagus PEA (syn Lotus tetragonalobus), a different plant. (though oddly despite the new name, I don't think I've seen either in a purple form maybe theyre refrring to the bottom half of the flower)
Canadamike: Yes the inner kernels of winged bean have a great deal of protein, though for most strains I'm not sure that outside of despiration, you'd want to eat them that way. If you are growing it for that use, you really need a pale tan seeded cultivar, which most of them are not, the brown seeded ones tend to taste too unpleasant when mature for that use (and don't even ASK about black seeded)
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Post by cletus on Feb 11, 2014 17:45:40 GMT -5
evergreen seeds has a golden yellow seed variety that they say starts to produce in 40-45 days but that may be only only short day conditions.
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