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Post by hortusbrambonii on Sept 8, 2013 0:52:42 GMT -5
Could they be daylight-sensitive too?
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Post by cesarz on Sept 8, 2013 5:39:19 GMT -5
White Lablab is day neutral, it only needs to be mature enough to flower. However most are short day plants and flower in autumn and winter. They are also perennial.
I grow my daylength sensitive (short-day) plants outside in pots in spring and bring them in to the greenhouse when the weather becomes rstrictively cold for them outside and they continue flowering and produce lots of pods.
The young green pods are edible and so are the young shoots, however I never tried the sprouts. Only the white seeded ones have edible seeds when dried.
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Post by blueadzuki on Sept 15, 2013 22:02:23 GMT -5
Mine just started flowering a day or two ago (white).
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Post by zeedman on Sept 16, 2013 1:00:00 GMT -5
Several years back, I grew two purple-flowered varieties; one with fairly thick purple pods, the other with very flat green pods that resembled snow peas before they began filling out. Both were daylength sensitive, although the green-podded one was slightly less so. The green began flowering in late August & the purple in September, so I only had a few weeks of pods before frost put an end to them. I found the flavor & texture of the purple-podded variety to be superior to the green, almost like "green beans". It would probably make a good snap bean substitute where it is too hot for vulgaris beans.
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Post by blueadzuki on Sept 16, 2013 6:35:55 GMT -5
It might and indeed the young pods are sort of used in such a manner in Indian cooking. The only caveat I'd add is that it really only works if you are punctilious about getting your crop picked. As far as I know, vulgaris beans don't become poisonous if you let picking slip a few weeks and harvest your crop a little too ripe; they just get a lot less pleasant to eat (okay I know that, technically a lot of vulgaris beans are poisonous if not cooked correctly, but the warnings I usually hear about vulgaris seem like nothing compared to those telling people not to eat mature colored lablab seed.
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Post by hortusbrambonii on Nov 9, 2013 7:14:22 GMT -5
Update: The plants grew well, but they did not make any flowers at all....
I expect them to be killed by frost soon...
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Post by paquebot on Nov 13, 2013 3:35:37 GMT -5
If you have seed to try them again next year, don't allow them to grow more than 2' tall. Force them to become a bush instead of a monster vine. That's what must be done to some African varieties of cowpeas. If allowed to climb, they will go on forever without setting a single pod. If forced to grow as a bush, 20-30 pods are not uncommon.
Martin
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Post by steev on Nov 16, 2013 3:15:39 GMT -5
I'll bear that in mind. Left to themselves, things often get out of hand.
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Post by cesarz on Dec 9, 2013 3:44:03 GMT -5
Update: The plants grew well, but they did not make any flowers at all.... I expect them to be killed by frost soon... If not too late dig out the roots, and replant them out next spring, they are winter dormant but perennial. |
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