Help needed on a tomato plant

[darcyvuqua]

Ok I posted on a thread on here a few weeks back saying that I had a tomato plant that looked like a potato plant!

VC kindly informed me there are potato leafed tomatoes about after research I sowed no verities that this is common with!

Today at the plot I noticed said plant has flowers on but again they look so much like potato flowers....

I'm thinking about binning the plant

What do you all think I should do don't wanna kill myself with poisonous fruit!!

[veggiechicken]

Can we have a photo before you marmalise it?

[darcyvuqua]

Not very good I took it this morning in a rush will get another decent one later on

That's the flowers


Here's the leaves


I will get a much better one later on

[veggiechicken]

Sorry can't see the flowers - just buds! I need to go to specklysavers

[SarzWix]

If the flowers are yellow, it's a tomato. I'm really puzzled as to why you think it could be a problem? If it isn't a tomato plant, it won't grow tomatoes and therefore you won't be able to poison yourself by eating non-existent fruit... The only way you could have a potato plant by accident is if you've sown True Potato Seed and forgotten to label it, in which case it will have white or purple flowers, and will grow tubers. In either scenario, I can see no good reason to compost a perfectly healthy plant...

[darcyvuqua]

If the flowers are yellow, it's a tomato. I'm really puzzled as to why you think it could be a problem? If it isn't a tomato plant, it won't grow tomatoes and therefore you won't be able to poison yourself by eating non-existent fruit... The only way you could have a potato plant by accident is if you've sown True Potato Seed and forgotten to label it, in which case it will have white or purple flowers, and will grow tubers. In either scenario, I can see no good reason to compost a perfectly healthy plant...

Thank you very much for clearing this up was having a right brain fart the true potato seed was what was going through my head should have thought about flower colour

And being an idiot forgot about the funny things growing in the compost

Surprising what a night of no sleep will get you thinking about or to that matter not thinking about sorry about this thread

[rustylady]

Looks like a tomato plant to me Darcy.

[SarzWix]

Although you can end up with 'fruit' on a potato plant, it never ripens enough to be mistaken for a tomato anyway; it stays green and then goes brown
Deep breaths DV and then find something else to worry about x

[darcyvuqua]

Although you can end up with 'fruit' on a potato plant, it never ripens enough to be mistaken for a tomato anyway; it stays green and then goes brown
Deep breaths DV and then find something else to worry about x

Haha thanks again

[kathyd]

These look like yours darcy - Outdoor Girl tomatoes...

[dim]

tomatillo?

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

I have several outdoor girl growing and it does look like it - though there are several potato leaved varieties. The tomatoes on mine are all odd comedy shapes and wrinkled, so don't panic if you get funny looking tomatoes as well.

I am sure they'll taste fab.

[darcyvuqua]

Thanks guys I have sown black cherry and Black Russian that I have never grown before could maybe be one of them?