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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Back in da U.P.
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it may seem like i'm tooting my own horn, but when i look at the pole bean row, the only variety that nearly every seed sprouted is my uncle steve italian pole bean. cool weather doesn't seem to bother it much. it just does what its supposed to do, and grow.
i think it is a good bean for northern growers to try if results with other pole beans have been less than satisfactory. does anyone else have a never fail pole bean that does well up north? keith
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Ontario
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Purple Peacock does well here, but I'm trying Fortex this year. I'm also growing Insuk's Wang Kong (runner beans).
Insuk's Wang Kong were the first to sprout, but the birds or insects damaged and moved them around. Fortex sprouted several days later, but were unmoved and un-damaged. Linda |
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: wales uk
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I found if you get ones treated with a chemical powder that stops rotting, then you get WAY more germination success.
Untreated they rot if they don't germinate in time, I have seen it god knows how many times. I don't know what the chemical is called though, it was a pink powder if I remember. Amazing stuff |
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Bozeman, Montana Zone 6b
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I find Fortex to be the best producer here at 6,000 feet in the Rockies.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: MA
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Jeminez. The combination of massive pods and massive production of pods puts it above all others.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Northern Minnesota - zone 3
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Fortex fan here, too. I find them to be relatively early, tasty, totally stringless, freeze well. I've quit looking around for other varieties. Some have reported they don't do as well in the south.
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Location: Ontario
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Yeah! Two votes for Fortex. I hope that I love the taste too
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: zone 6b, PA
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Trialed quite a few and have decided that Rattlesnake gives us the best combination of taste, production, and resistance to the insects and bean diseases in our area...but I am south of where you are.
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: 6a - NE Tennessee
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And, Yes, put my vote in for my Blue Lakes, but also for Rattlesnake as well.
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: 6a - NE Tennessee
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Yes, and while the Blue Lakes can produce more beans that are larger "around", the rattlesnake beans are on average a couple inches longer. So, it kinda evens things up. And, I find that production is very comparable.
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Saylorsburg, PA
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Pole beans are the best thing I have found in recent years to replace my French filet bush varieties. Easier on my back and produce all summer until frost. There are not many French filet pole bean varieties but Fortex is certainly one of the best already extolled above.
I find it interesting that no one has mentioned Emerite as well, a green filet variety pole bean, which rivals Fortex for flavor and production. I have grown both and concluded I prefer the Emerite by a small margin for texture. But both are outstanding. For yellow filet pole beans I love Ramdor but can only find a supplier in Canada (Solana) which I have used. As an alternative I buy French Gold from Renee’s Garden which is also a filet pole bean and almost as good. |
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Wisconsin
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If I could choose only one, it would be Emerite, which has been the more productive of the two. It has proven to be reliable year after year, even planted late. |
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Western North Carolina
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Augusta area, Georgia, 8a/7b
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Anybody with experiences growing Fortex here in the south (non mountain areas)?
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