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Triple Cotyledon

NorthernJeff

NorthernJeff

Hey pepper world... has anyone seen something like this before?
 
I just had a Carolina Reaper seed germinate with 3 cotyledons instead of the usual 2.  Maybe it's a lucky plant that's going to produce a lot of peppers LOL.
 
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This is good. You get three main branches instead of two. It may grow more slowly, but you will end up with more peppers. I have read about it here. Unfortunately, my own plant died without producing peppers. It didn't get enough light and grew too tall and fell over.
 
About 1 in 10 or so of the Chinenses in my experience. My own hybrids do it a lot. I have never noticed any advantage though, as they all look about the same a few weeks later when the true leaves take over.
 
Weird enough -- I had one pop up in my seed tray with *no* cotyledons.  Not sure what happened with that.  It ended up forming leaves anyway, but it's (understandably) pretty far behind the others in its growth.
 
From everything I've heard and witnessed first hand, tricots are generally no different to regular duocots once they start growing "real" leaves. I have heard that they will occassionally continue to grow branches in 3s instead of 2s though, which means slower growth but can, if conditions are right, give a higher end yeild.
 
I had this happen with two of my seedlings last year (they were of the same variety) - one grew normally, the other was very spindly and the leaves were strange, very thin and weirdly shiny. Didn't get fruit from either as they were late starts, but they were interesting to watch grow nonetheless. 
 
I had a tricot bishops crown that was the fastest growing plant of the batch, not by that much, buy noticeably, though It may that I put it in a privileged spot or something. Then I had a 4 cots that grew slightly slower than the rest, it is basically a siamese twin plant, or two plants sharing a root stock. Its two years old now and there's nothing very special about it.
 
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