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Why are the flowers on my runner beans falling off before forming into beans




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is it a lack of water perhaps ?

3 Jul, 2011

 

Your flowers are not being pollenated for some reason, hence they simply die and fall off. Do you have a lack of pollenating insets where you live?

3 Jul, 2011

 

Early season it is more likely to be lack of water than lack of insects. It is common early season for flowers to fall off without setting beans.

3 Jul, 2011

 

Be a little patient and I guarantee you will have many- many beans later. The same happens to me in the beginning of each year and a few weeks later I do not know what to do with so many beans.

3 Jul, 2011

 

i think maybe its too warm at night, spray the leaves with water at dusk

3 Jul, 2011

 

latest RHS recommendations are that spraying makes no difference.....

3 Jul, 2011

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