My beans seem as yet to do anything, I had a look at them earlier and have found that despite being on a moist salty bed of cotton wool they have gone hard again! So I have added more salty water to them in the hopes that this will revive them.
I wondering if the salt water is dehydrating the beans and sapping their moisture preventing them from growing...I did think this would happen but time will tell.
I have just been on the internet (you would not believe how many things are on there about broad beans!) the website I used was an except from a Journal seemingly from the Netherlands- http://www.springerlink.com/content/7870716v4718x126/
The general consensus of the salt/bean experiment seems to be that salt is an organic metabolic inhibitor aka stunts growth to the point of non growth, it apparently seems to cause some sort of leaf thickness so I suppose it could possibly lead to the plant burning itself out too early(imagine the incredible hulk but a bean and no ripped shirts or sad music)
Anyway I will keep an open mind- my beans may define science!
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