Does size matter?

 I've been saving seed from runners and french beans. Seed size varies
enormously, does that affect the result next year?
Pete C

 petcrow@btinternet.com says...

  I sort and keep ones that are even, plump and firm with a shiny perfect
"skin". Only because that's what my grandfather did. Since I've never
planted the runty lumpy/dented/nicked  ones I don't know if selection
makes any difference at all :-)

  Janet

 
I just save the seeds from the best pods,
I've always understood if you plant from runts you will loose the
quality, select for improvement.

 

I'm not sure about the seeds themselves if they came from good plants, but
surely a small seed will have less food in it, so the plant will be slower
at the starting gate?
I surely know that with garlic, planted from cloves, the biggest cloves
produce the biggest bulbs.

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Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

 On 10/05/2011 08:07 PM, Gary Woods wrote:

With maples, larger seed is more vigorous; it doesn't always produce the
most interesting seedlings though.

I'd guess that for beans, bigger is better for the reasons Gary gave.