(88 days) Open pollinated.
When about a plant’s-worth of white seeds turned up in 20 lb of Carol Deppe’s golden Gaucho beans, she picked them out and planted them. The resulting plants looked identical to Gaucho, and again the beans were the same size and shape as Gauchos but white with a candle pattern on the hila. A recessive mutation present in Carol’s Gaucho population must have become homozygous in one plant. What fun! White Candle Gauchos have a milder flavor and the same high yield and agronomic characteristics as Gaucho. The two beans can be planted in the same row—occasional crosses between sister varieties aren’t a big deal. Save seeds from plants at the ends of the row and eat the ones that mingle toward the middle! By developing sister lines such as these, Carol is building ease of seed-saving right into the varieties’ genetics.
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