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it seems some other people very interested in growing long bean
I like long bean a lot as you know and I grow many different varieties
I have received some requests asked me to show more how to direct long bean vines and how to prune them
And I want to do this video it will not be a quick one
But I will show you what actually I do to direct long bean
And how to prune them if you already watch the other video, you know what to do with your long bean
You can skip this video, so this one is actually from my cucumber when I remove the cucumber
I just pull the vines out I didn't remove the twine ropes so I can recycle them
so I have some of them already set up about 1/2 foot apart
I have this area I don't have any twine ropes, so I need to put them up together
So tie a single slide knot to the top
And then cut the distance needed
Tie another one
Now next I am tightening a single knot to the middle bar
After all the twine ropes all tied up now we direct the bean vines
Like this one here like this one have the main line always keep the main vines no matter what.
Together
So now the other vine, it doesn't matter which way you twine them
just make sure they are twined together and do not fall off
That is one of the reasons that I suggest you should direct the vines
as soon as they grow vines because they will tanged together like this
Here I have one two three four
Four vines tanged together, so
It's not the end of the world you can undo it just like this
Very careful one by one
Now we're doing the same thing
Twine the vine and string together
If you see the vines grow not that tall to reach the twine ropes,
you can leave them alone
Give it two to three days they will grow very fast so by that time you can direct them onto the trellis
I recommend you put two vines on one string which means that right now,
For all the twine ropes, every half foot, I have one main vine directed on to the twine ropes
So right now I need one more that I want them to grow after this
For this one it already grows one two three four side vines, and I don't need all of them
Here I'm just need one side vine to go with the main vine
I'm gonna remove the side vines that I don't want to keep, the small one, the weak one
Remove them. This side vine will grow longer in few days and
By then I will come back and direct it onto the string with the main vine
so I will have two fruiting vines on one string
This vine here. Usually the best place for a long bean to grow side vine is from the bottom here
I have one two three four. Usually these four sprouts are easy to grow into strong vines
if you don't have strong side vines growing yet
You can keep one or two of these side sprouts. They will grow into strong side vines later
Some long beans very early matured so when you remove the side vines
you may see that like this one here besides the side vines it's also growing flowers
Usually I recommend you to remove the flowers because long beam is very long
If they flower and fruit under one foot long the bean will drag on the ground
the bean quality usually is not very good
I don't keep any flowers under one foot
Okay basically we are done here today
Today I spent about 15 to 20 minutes to do all these things
What I did was to tie the strings onto the trellis
And then I direct the vines on to the trellis, and I also prune the bean vines a little bit
So I don't need to worry about it grow too many vines in the next few days
So at the end of the work today
So you should have the long vine already directed to the string
and also you keep one or two sides sprouts or side vines at the bottom,
which will grow bigger in few days
after few days we'll come back and direct these side vines onto the strings by that time
We should have two vines on one string one string every half foot
so I will see you in few days