Hi everyone:
This little fellow (picture on the link below) came from a package of Beefsteak tomato seeds; can anyone here identify what it might be? The stem is kinda "spindly", but it seems to be growing well otherwise. I hate to toss it out...but I haven't a clue what it is.
https://www.lewisaire.com/plant.html
Thanks in advance,
Garry
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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pay resepects to my recently departed Mystery Plant.
Hi Rebecca:
Well, I have terrible news. I had just taken a current picture of the plant to show you (top half of the picture in the link below). I stood up to put the camera away on a shelf, and when I sat back down, the bottom half of the picture is all that was left...My cat, Wilbur, had eaten all the top leaves! I mean, in two seconds they were gone!
https://www.lewisaire.com/plant.html
They say tomato leaves are toxic to cats...hopefully we won't be back in here paying respects to poor, departed Wilbur. (Just kidding...the official word is that tomato leaves "may" give cats an upset tummy)
Garry
Hi Rebecca:
Well, I have terrible news. I had just taken a current picture of the plant to show you (top half of the picture in the link below). I stood up to put the camera away on a shelf, and when I sat back down, the bottom half of the picture is all that was left...My cat, Wilbur, had eaten all the top leaves! I mean, in two seconds they were gone!
https://www.lewisaire.com/plant.html
They say tomato leaves are toxic to cats...hopefully we won't be back in here paying respects to poor, departed Wilbur. (Just kidding...the official word is that tomato leaves "may" give cats an upset tummy)
Garry
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Hi Rebecca:
Yeah, too bad is right. I've been nurturing that little thing for several weeks, wondering what it would grow up to be...then Wilbur demolishes it in two gulps! At first I wanted to strangle him, or maybe put him in exile for the rest of his natural life. But then I relented...how can I punish him for doing something that's the most natural thing in the world, for a cat?
I tell you one thing: He won't be allowed near the rest of the plants!
As for dogs...I'm sure they're great pets, for those who prefer dogs. My kids had dogs while growing up, and unfortunately all I remember are the bad experiences, which were frequent and often costly.
Take care, thanks for the reply.
Garry
Yeah, too bad is right. I've been nurturing that little thing for several weeks, wondering what it would grow up to be...then Wilbur demolishes it in two gulps! At first I wanted to strangle him, or maybe put him in exile for the rest of his natural life. But then I relented...how can I punish him for doing something that's the most natural thing in the world, for a cat?
I tell you one thing: He won't be allowed near the rest of the plants!
As for dogs...I'm sure they're great pets, for those who prefer dogs. My kids had dogs while growing up, and unfortunately all I remember are the bad experiences, which were frequent and often costly.
Take care, thanks for the reply.
Garry
I think you should gently grub down into the dirt a little and see if you can find remnants of a seed. It honestly doesn't look like a tomato to me, potato leaf variety or otherwise. It looks like the first shoot of the Ailanthus Altissima trees we get around here.
I wonder if it was in the dirt, and not the seed...
So many questions...
[img]https://www.lewisaire.com/Whatzit2.jpg[/img]
I wonder if it was in the dirt, and not the seed...
So many questions...
[img]https://www.lewisaire.com/Whatzit2.jpg[/img]
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There's one Tree of Heaven that can go to the devil...
[url]https://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/aial1.htm[/url]
HG
[url]https://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/aial1.htm[/url]
HG
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HOLY smokes! If that's what it was, I'm sure glad it's a goner! I see some differences from the one in the link, though...hard to tell if it's the same thing.
Was it a seed or did it come with the soil? Good question, but I have to say it was a seed, for two reasons. One, the soil was potting soil from last year; I had planted flowers in it. Two, I planted the tomato seeds in a cottage cheese container at startup, four seeds per container, evenly spaced, and the Mystery Plant came up right where one of the seeds were, about the same time the other three seeds broke ground. I know that isn't rock-solid conclusive, but it would be a pretty big coincidence otherwise. Question is...how did it get into the pack of tomato seeds?
Garry
Was it a seed or did it come with the soil? Good question, but I have to say it was a seed, for two reasons. One, the soil was potting soil from last year; I had planted flowers in it. Two, I planted the tomato seeds in a cottage cheese container at startup, four seeds per container, evenly spaced, and the Mystery Plant came up right where one of the seeds were, about the same time the other three seeds broke ground. I know that isn't rock-solid conclusive, but it would be a pretty big coincidence otherwise. Question is...how did it get into the pack of tomato seeds?
Garry
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