Khust UKRAINE Petroupoli GREECE Lafranรงaise FRANCE
Summer Automn 2016
Black Coco shelling beans are encased in long, slender pods which will be green when immature and yellow once fully mature and dried. Each pod holds anywhere from one to six beans. The beans develop in the shell until they are plump enough to frame the shell's skin. Black Coco shelling beans are connected to the pod by a tiny fragment of flesh that creates the "eye" in each bean, once removed. The beans are ovate to round and just slightly curved.
Their exterior is glossy and near jet black with an ivory eye at the bean's center. When cooked the beans establish a swollen, dense and meaty consistency and a nutty bean flavor. With the rapid ripening process, the cottony flesh of the shell will eventually lose water and harden as it matures and the beans will loosen readily. Dry Black Coco shelling beans continue to shrink and harden as they age.
Khust School #3
UKRAINE
Day 1 Sowing: 18 October 2016
Cotyledon out of the soil: 24 October 2016
Day 6
Day 13 Simple leaves: 31 October 2016
Day 49
Flowers: 6 December 2016
Day 53 First podss: 10 December 2016
Day 105
Harvest: 31 January 2017
Petroupoli 4th gymnasium
GREECE
Germination: 6 October 2016
Day 3
Day 7
Simple leaves: 10 October 2016
Day 39 Flowers and pods: 11 November 2016
17 November 2016
Day 45
17 November 2016
Day 45
13 December 2016
Day 71
05 January 2017
Day 94
Day 101
First harvest: 12 January 2017
Day 109
Final harvest: 20 January 2017
Day 109 Final harvest: 20 January 2017
Day 118
Final harvest: 29 January 2017
8 plants 11 pods 25 seeds
Lafrançaise Collège Antonin Perbosc
FRANCE
Day 14 27 July 2016
Day 57 9 September 2016
Day 63 15 September 2016
15 October 2016
Day 93
27 plants 153 pods 330 seeds 184 g