seeds Siamese Twins / Conjoined Seedlings

mhayenga · Feb 24, 2012

Thought you guys might be interested in this. After germinating in cups, but before planting, one of my Datil seeds had 2 "tails". It's now sprouted and has a double-wide joined stem (its all one piece) and two sets of starting leaves. I had to help it out of the seed cap, but luckily it looks like it took no damage. Pics below,

judohero · Feb 24, 2012

man that will be cool if you can get it to put out pods some day.

jsschrstrcks · Feb 24, 2012

I wonder if that trait will be congenital, and whether it will have a net detriment, or benefit to the plant as a whole?

shigshwa · Feb 24, 2012

It's probably the same as having 2 plants at once.

Crusher · Feb 24, 2012

Fingers crossed for twin conjoined peppers from your twin conjoined plant.

PaulG · Feb 24, 2012

Cool!
Be sure to keep posting this one!

silva83tj · Feb 24, 2012

niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!! :clap:

Dulac · Feb 25, 2012

My guess is that is beneficial. Very cool!

jsschrstrcks · Feb 25, 2012

Well I would think it needs some special considerations in order for it to be beneficial... It likely needs more soil - 2x the plants = 2x the roots, probably drinks 2x the water (but still doesn't like to be soaked), probably the cotyledons will fight for enough light, this could make one of them leggy.

assuming all of those are false, or acounted for, then yes I think that it could be quite beneficial. It already has double the diameter of most plants at that age (stronger), has the potential to absorb 2x the sun, could potentially have double the root system.... but I'm just talking off the top of my head, it may not be as complicated as all that.

Dulac · Feb 25, 2012

I'm thinking it could have a very good root system. The cotyledon could be cut off it starts shooting for the light. If it doesn't, then you have twice the photosynthesis early on. You will also have more nodes. Seems good to me.

Edit: I want to try to get some of my plants to merge together (can't remember the name of this off the top of my head). That's similar to what you got. I want to do this for more nodes and branches.

Edit again: Ahh, what I want to do is called inosculation. I was reading about how this occurs in nature and thought I'd try it out on some of my extra peppers.

jsschrstrcks · Feb 25, 2012

You might try googling approach grafting as well...

I am trying this with a few of my plants.

currently I have a scotch bonnet grafting onto an orange hab.