[shokkyy]

I'm trying them this year for the first time. I started some off in 3" pots and I'm a little stunned by their speed of growth. They starting coming through very quickly, just a few days, and within just a few days of coming through they're almost a foot high

Do they always grow this fast? Don't think it's anything to do with lack of light because as soon as they started germinating I started chucking them outside in the daytime. If I'd realised they'd grow so fast I wouldn't have started them off so early, because I can't leave them in those 3" pots for long.

[bigben]

I hate to discourage you but I did the same two years ago. Mine came up big, faster than my french beans and I then ended up putting them out too soon and they died - had to start again.

I had them in paper pots, if yours are in slightly larger pots then try to keep them going longer. Try to harden them off gently if you can, I did not, came back a week later to find all but two were destroyed by the wind.

[mumofstig]

and they can't go out till it's frost freee. They are not usually sown until the end of April, like runner beans.

So you're in a bit of pickle aren't you .

[shokkyy]

Well, if I have to I can always move them on into larger pots, it's only one wigwam worth so not a lot of plants. As long as they're outside in the daytime I can keep them inside overnight for a while. I always tend to put tender stuff outside a bit earlier than the safe date, I am in the southwest and my garden is very sheltered by a lot of woodland, so I should be able to get them out in April. But these do take the record for the fastest growing seedlings I've ever done.