I sometimes get mix-ups in my pots due to 'seed-drift'... all due to gusts of wind of course, nothing to do with being a little distracted.
Worst case example: Two (or three?
) winters ago I had two identical pots side by side and two different seed lots in hand. Both were from Sweet Surrender pods (after Rick convincingly argued for Sweet Surrender being a valuable garden plant I relented on the poor thing and made lots of crosses on it that summer instead of getting rid of it. :D ). Anyway, I duly planted one in one pot and the other in the other. Of course.
3-4 weeks later one pot is starting to hairpin... nothing in the other. Oh well, just slow. By two months one pot is thick with seedlings like the proverbial hairs on a cat's back and the other... has one. I'm thinking Wow, I'm glad one of these crosses was fertile! The other must have been dodgy even though it looked like good seed. At least one germinated!
As the seedlings grew I decided my 'just one' on its own had to be a drifted seed from the good batch. Finally this summer that lonesome seedling flowered (obviously true to label of cross)... as did the big batch of seedlings from the other pot. And half of those resembled the occupant of the Lone Seed Pot. Oops. How on earth did I obliviously plant
both seed lots in the same pot? That lone seedling was indeed a seed-drift baby, but I must have happily tipped her siblings in on top of her half siblings from the other cross!
And I had been so certain I had planted a single seed lot in each of two pots. Talk about false memories!
