No I didn't do any crossing at all....yet.
I had no idea on what to expect growing out these beans. It's important to me to know what to expect first so I can have a handle on it.
It's a good thing too as I did expect a large plant but nothing like what these have shown.
I have no doubt at all that they will go 20 foot if given the opportunity.
I did nothing to prep the soil at all, just plopped the beans onto the surface and kinda kicked them into the dirt....seriously, I just smooshed them into the ground.
I did regularly water them but nothing more, no nutes, nothing but well water that I really cannot vouch how good that well water is...dunno, never been tested.
Now I have a feel for how it grows I can kinda let the cat out of the bag as it were.
I'll start a few indoors and get a solid female and take cuts then toss the mother, flower cuts as soon as possible and intentionally let them be rootbound to contain the size.
That's what I'll seed with known pollen as yet unchosen.
I'd love to get a Tom Hill Deep Chunk male for pollen donor but have no beans for that.
I do have a afghani Kandahar landrace indi that might be a good candidate, add some girth and cherry taste/smell and see what happens.
I was planning on a thai or lumbo crossing but the size would get out of hand real quick....I don't have a greenhouse and feel that would be required to go that direction.
I *might* do that later but am unsure how to fully control a 20+ foot beast in my neck of the woods.
Believe it or not I have grown plants that size when I lived about 5 blocks from disneyland way back in the day before anyone knew what weed looked like but no way in hell you can do it in a non legal state these days.
I'm not concerned in the slightest though since I probably have 3-4 ounces of beans....and that's a metric shit ton so I can afford to play around a bit and not worry about any certain plant as being of particular value (that's difficult to phrase, does it make sense ?).