Here are 3 pods of pea Beauregarde on consecutive nodes. First (on right) fully purple, normal size, normal colour. Next pea, something clearly happened - it started fully purple, then got jagged edges and the tip of the pod is green. This pod is smaller too. Next pod is 50% longer than normal and green with purple speckling. Last pod, not shown on photo is as long, but entirely green. This is the only plant of Beauregarde that has shown this dramatic loss of purple genes. Surprisingly it lost both of pu and pur to make a green pod in the end.
I have kept the pure green pod on the plant, as I would like seeds from such a huge, dark green pod. And I would like to know whether this loss of purple genes is permanent or something just for this season.
The next pod in sequence is also pure green and still very small. The flower colour is still 'wild' or two tone purple.
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