seeds Jamaican Yellow Scotch Bonnet - Seedling RED!!!

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Pofadder

Hallo there Hot Pepper growers
 
I am a grower who recently started with chillies and I've got some 5 varieties just started here in South Africa.
 
Things are going well, minus some minituare caterpillars that ate quite a bit of the first set of leaves of many of my seedlings, but I wanted to know if it is normal to have a seedling that is entirely red? My JYSB seeds only sprouted one from the 5, but is growing alright. I noticed it was the only seedling that was red and when I transplanted from the plug to a pot, I could see that the roots were red as well as all its leaves.
 
Is this normal? Doesn't look like it from the photos I've seen.
 
Any ideas?
 
Cheers
 
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Not normal, could be some unknown environmental factors / something in the soil. Would love to see some pictures if you can get them uploaded to a photo sharing site like photobucket or click "more reply options" on bottom right, Then on bottom left under attach files click "choose file" - then select the photo you wish to upload and click open or ok. Then click attach this file then click "add to post"
 
that's sounds like a lot of steps but only takes a second. 
 
I umm, understand from reading and such that other plants in cold conditions can go purple sort of red…
 
but yes, pics or it didn't happen.  
 
Hallo-hi
 
Sorry for the delay, here's a photo.
 
Could be that it got cold, but all the other (25+) seedlings that were in the same plug tray and on the same heating mat (25 deg Cel) made perfectly normal looking green leaves and stems.
 
I don't think it's a weed, I use sterile coco peat to sprout in.
 
The seedling is looking rough and gnarled, which is in part due to some minituare caterpillars that I found on the little plants (found a dead moth behind the one tray), but this one is the slowest, which I think might be due to it's mutant nature.
 
You can see the new leaves look less red, but still with a strong red border and strange colour. Anybody seen something similar?
 
Cheers and thanks
 
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Trident chilli said:
Wow ... I am looking forward to seeing this too ... was the seed bought locally or from a vendor outside of SA
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I bought the seeds in SA, from a local vendor called seedsforafrica, but I don't know where they sourced it from.
 
Pixel_Ninja said:
Considering i'm just down the road from you, do I get a cutting if it turns out to be a mutant species? 
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 You would definitely be able to, but I am by now pretty sure that it is, in fact, a beetroot....
 
Not sure how this happened, but hopefully I don't jump the gun like this again.. Whoops
 
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