The last bean (part 2)

Generation 2

getting to grow beans which are offspring of my homegrown plants feels very different from growing beans from a packet purchased off NTUC. its like your own pet dog giving birth to puppies vs getting new puppies from the pet shop. the gen2 beans carries on the bloodline of gen1.

since the gen2 plants were grown on 1st come 1st serve basis, only the earliest pods of gen1 were sent for cultivation. my logic is that the strongest plants grew pods fastest, so i would want to carry on those good genes. just like i hoped those 7 first beans would grow up to be like Champion.

gen2 did not grow up to be like their parents. in fact, all the gen2 plants were rather plain and similar even though they came from different parents. i did not see anyhing like the variations and unique features among gen1. but still, gen 2 was much more prosperous than gen1.

gen 2 in its prosperity

at its fruiting season, multiple pods were seen among the leaves. i counted, at one time, there were 14 pods altg, big and small. that excludes another 6 from gen1.
i was delighted to see 3 record-breaking pods all coming at the same time, on 3 different plants. not champion's children. 1 of them contained 8 seeds and the oher 2 had 9. other than the 7-seed pod in gen1, the rest of the pods before n after that only had 1 - 4 seeds.

the 3 big pods

when gen2 was nearing adulthood, all of the plants including gen1 were suddenly invaded by some white furry soft bodied bugs. they spawned real fast and abundantly and sucked my plant's juices. their orange color eggs were laid inside a weave of cottonlike web. i had to spend time everyday getting rid of them. everyday there will be new ones. there was a time after i let them grow a bit, i collected a whole bunch of the bugs, put them together, then executed them by squishing them all into a ball of guts. they were rather juicy.

3 generations of plants

just as before, the first fruits of gen2 were used to grow gen3. this time gen3 was grown in 1 big container, allowing more space per plant. gen2 continued to fruit till about 5 months old.

so there was 3 generations living under one roof. one happy family.