Tricotyledons ?

[bluemoon]

I've found this happens frequently with tomatoes.

[minipop]

I found a quad-cot (is that the right term? 4 seed leaves anyway) kale seedling at the weekend, but it had somehow got broken... maybe the teeny little stem couldn't take all that weight! So no piccies to show... ah well

[basketcase]

Anyone feel a weird aubergine thread coming on?

The thing I googled mentioned sunflowers and daturas - some other things I can't remember. From our experience on here it does seem to be an aubergine speciality doesn't it? Shall we report back when they get their true leaves - and further?

A werid veg thread? Ooh goody!! I've missed Esther Rantzen...

[Flummery]

A werid veg thread? Ooh goody!! I've missed Esther Rantzen...

I have a quadcot in my potato seedlings. Nothing shaped like anyone's rude bits yet though!

[si'sraisedbed]

Tom with 3 seed leaves??

One of my toms has come up with three seed leaves instead of the normal two. Is this normal?? I have never seen it before...

[Eyren]

Flummery found an aubergine with three, not long ago - sounds like it might not be uncommon in the Solanaceae!

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ons_28292.html

[Jillyreeves]

One of my toms has come up with three seed leaves instead of the normal two. Is this normal?? I have never seen it before...

I planted 6 Garden Pearl, all except one has germinated so far, but one of them has three leaves

[Victoria26]

I had a lonely courgette with one seed leave.... I left it to its own devices and its now the strongest out of all of them!

Typical.

[Flummery]

Story so far - the next three leaves are a trio too!

[Jenegade]

Story so far - the next three leaves are a trio too!

Cool! I have one tomato with 3 leaves and 2 or 3 parsnips with 3 seed leaves too. I'm guessing they'll all have 3 true leaves too then!

[rogesse]

All my 'Pretty in Purple' peppers came up with 3 leaves and are doing fine - the same happened last year!

About 1/6 of my parsnips have 3 leaves too

[lyndap]

Happens quite often.Just grow on as normal.

[si'sraisedbed]

Well how odd - I'd never seen anything other than 2 seed leaves!! I'll just leave it alone for now and see what happens!

[Flummery]

I wonder if there's any advantage in having 3 leaves? Like, for instance, if they continue in 3s like my aubergine, will it increase the number of flowering stems? I'm thinking articularly of tomatoes. I've heard of someone having a tricot cabbage plant - this WOULD be an advantage since it's the leaves you're after. I was once told that if you want to produce a standard fuchsia you should look for a cutting with 3 leaves per node as they bush out faster. I tried it - you can find these sometimes at garden centres - and it's true!

[si'sraisedbed]

Well, my 3 leaved tom is a Maskotka and I have one planted at the same time and which emerged on the same day but with two seed leaves. I'll treat them both the same and see what the production on each one is like. They'll be off to the cold green house in few weeks time and then into double size growbag. I wonder whether if I kept seeds from the toms on the 3 leaf they would, in turn, provide more 3 leaved varieties next year