Pole beans not developing

Does anyone have experience with Stardust Pole Beans (seeds from Park's)? This is my first year- growing them because of the reviews. They are blooming profusely, but the flowers drop off-no beans growing. They are about 10 feet from some Kwintus beans which are putting out beans heavily, so I know the conditions are good. I can send photos if it would help.

Stardust is a runner bean(Phaseolus coccineus), not a pole bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Runner beans like a cool damp climate and are very heat intolerant. If you have an English type summer climate they will do fine, but for most of us we only get flowers .

I'm confused- Park's catalog -see this link-
http://parkseed.com/stardust-bean-seeds/p/52539-PK-P1/
says it will climb to 10 ft, and is a vigorous climber... are you saying I should have let it sprawl on the ground?

Most runner beans are vigorous climbers. They are just a different species than common beans and require more specific climatic conditions. Stardust will climb and should be trellised, depending on your climate it may not set beans. I am familiar with Parks, one of the reasons they get so many negative ratings is that they are use hyperbole like an old time medicine show hawker with out clearly identifying what they are selling.

So I should probably just pull them up and plant Kwintus? I know they are reliable, and we eat LOTS of green beans. I don't think it's too late to sow seeds- we have a long hot summer and they are early beans.

Jo, have you grown Scarlet Runner beans? If you bave been successful with those they should be okay. They are similar. Meanwhile, even under ideal conditions they are very late. My fabes, from the same group, are not yet flowering. I'd leave them in but consider planting something earlier in addition next year.

No, I have never grown runner beans- I only tried them after reading Park's description and thinking they would be similar to Kwintus which I have grown for several years and really like them- they are flat, not stringy and delicious crunch. I guess I will just stay with what I know--I have already pulled up the 4 trellises of Stardust and sowed Kwintus in the spots. As hot as it is they will be up in a week, and they only take 55 days, so I will have early & late beans! Thanks all for the help.

I had poor results with Scarlet Runner but good results with their relative, fabes. However, fabes are grown for the bean only. Hilda Romano is a large, flat bean that is early and prolific. It does well in our cool, damp mountain spring weather. I'll start picking those today while the other varieties planted at the same time are more than a week behind.