My tomato has three seed leaves

[Sylvan]

Is that normal?

It's a Giant Plum F2.

They're all perfectly normal looking seed leaves. (Two of them look yellow in the picture because the sun was shining through them, but they're exactly the same as the third)

[Capsid]

It happens.

[Sylvan]

Do they go on to grow normally or should I start again from scratch?

[Flummery]

It will be fine. It's called a tricotyledon - there's a thread on here somewhere - I had several of my aubergines like this a couple of years back. I believe toms and aubergines are especially susceptible to growing like this. I kept checking them thinking they might keep all their leaves in 3s but they didn't. I think I googled it and read that one in 40 grows like this - I don't believe that though!

[taff]

they grow normally. Don't panic

[Sylvan]

Thank you. That's a great relief.

I don't believe one in forty either. If that were so I really should have encountered it before, considering the vast number of seeds I've sown over the last 30 years!

It's looking a little droopy now, but I know some varieties do tend to look wispy. Can you remember whether that was one of those Taff?

[gojiberry]

Don't know about seed leaves but three true leaves usually gives a healthier, stronger plant. Used to get it a lot when I grew fushias.

Ian

[taff]

not wispy wispy, like amish paste for instance, but they did grow downwards and weren't as 'fat' as ordinary tomato leaves if that makes sense?

[Sylvan]

Yes, that makes sense.

Thanks.