DaisyI said:Can you post a photo?
Weedwhacker said:I think it's much more likely that there was a stray seed in whatever planting medium you used.Maybe..not sure how that could have happened..been using the same soil to grow indoors for a year and a half, no odd sprout has ever come out. I put one pepper seed right in the middle of the small pot and that's exactly where this sprout came from.
Weedwhacker said:Another possibility would be that there was a non-pepper seed in with your pepper seeds.That's what I wasn't sure of. I guess the pepper I took the seed from had something else in it and that's what grew out. I was told not to do seeds straight from a vegetable like that as this can happen..i guess now I know:) only store bought seeds from now.
blitz35 said: That's what I wasn't sure of. I guess the pepper I took the seed from had something else in it and that's what grew out. I was told not to do seeds straight from a vegetable like that as this can happen..i guess now I know:) only store bought seeds from now.
Danita said:Occasionally peppers will have a tricotyledons rather than the normal dicotyledons (seed leaves.)
Is that what you are seeing, perhaps?
blitz35 said:
I just looked through google images agin for about 20 minutes..of all the images ive seen for cotyledons, none are what mine is like..so in the end, I was thinking the same, that it comes from a cross-pollinated pepper and the seed isn't viable, so this is what grew out.
Im getting rid of it and the soil to be safe. No idea where this odd thing came from lol, but google can't find any images resembling it..but they're not cotyledons, so must have been something that got blown in and found its way down the stairs to my basement and hopped in the container lol. Im gonna stick with proper seeds from now.
stone said:
Where's your curiosity?
If I had an unusual plant show up from a common fruit or vegetable.... I'd totally grow it out!
I grow lots of seeds out of store bought produce.... And.... I'm not too concerned about stuff crossing at my house...
Joeseph Lofthouse calls it growing landrace crops... Apparently encourages everything to cross and saves the most vigorous...
Sure wish you had posted a picture of the plant.... You've got me curious.
No way to borrow somebody's phone?
sallyg said:Next time you try store bought vegetables, plant at least five-10 seeds. One weed (new purchased potting mix) is very flukey, as you say, but 10 is impossible.