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Inca berry siamese twins?

Hiya, i start my seeds in wet paper towels in a warm place and when i see a little tail sticking out i pop them into their pots (i've started growing tomatoes and eggplant since learning i've outgrown my serial plant killer ways, so i've sprouted many a seed in the last few years) and, like i said in the welcome forum, i'm going to start growing some new varieties of chile this year.
Now the strangest thing has happened, my inca berry seeds are sprouting fine and then all of a sudden one of them has two little root tails. I've never seen this before, have any of you? What's even going on in that little seed, if i plant it will i get two plants or one freaky plant or what? actually the experimenter in me totally wants to plant it but the paranoid in me read day of the triffids. So, um, yea.. do plants have siamese twins?
 
GrumpyBear said:
"all of a sudden one of them has two little root tails. I've never seen this before, have any of you? What's even going on in that little seed, if i plant it will i get two plants or one freaky plant or what? actually the experimenter in me totally wants to plant it but the paranoid in me read day of the triffids. So, um, yea.. do plants have siamese twins?

Calling Dr. Pam...............:shocked:
 
One way to find out for sure is to just grow it and see how it is different from the others as it matures. I have a seed right now that sprouted with three cotydons(the first leaf). I'm growing it just to see what happens, probably nothing. Don't think you'll get two plants from one seed though. Happy growing.
 
I don't really have a digital camera, just the one on my phone but that turned out painfully blurry (seriously, my eyes hurt trying to focus) but i did go ahead and plant it. I'll let you all know how it turns out.
 
Oh. My. God.
http://www.nsl.fs.fed.us/wpsm/Chapter1.pdf
Under reproductive abnormalities:
Polyembryony. Polyembryony is the occurrence of more than 1 embryo per ovule. It is unusual in
angiosperms (Sedgley and Griffin 1989), but more common in gymnosperms with multiple archegonia, where pollination
and fertilization produce multiple embryos, all differing in genetic composition. This type of polyembryony is found in
araucaria, cypress, and all Pinaceae (Chowdhury 1962; Haines and Prakash 1980; Konar and Banerjee 1963). Another
type of polyembryony can be produced through cleavage or division of a developing embryo. It has been noted in many
coniferous genera of the northern temperate zone (Sedgley and Griffin 1989).

Apparently i'm getting two plants. And i'm totally breeding them!
 
Keep us up to date on how the growing process. Wonder if you have 2 types of leaves growing with 2 different plants?
 
well i totally got two seperate seedlings. they're both a little tinier than the 'control' inca berry, but i guess that's to be expected. I took pictures before seperating them but i can't seem to email them from my phone, it keeps saying try again later...oh well, I'll keep you all updated if something interesting happens (although i'm no longer anticipating a triffid problem).
 
in a shocking twist of events the twins are doing better then the control so far. they're all right beside each other and getting the same care, twin A who was a little bigger then twin B but still smaller then control is in the lead, twin B is right behind and control is trailing pitifully. i took a picture in the vain hope that some day my phone will actually let me send these pictures to my computer.
 
they all went into the pots at the same time, they're all right next to each other and being bottom watered at the same time with the same water and yet twin A has four leaves with a little start of a fifth, twin B has three leaves, and 'single birth' control has only one leaf. i've either gotten a breed of super inca's started or just by luck my control is a runt.
 
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