three cotyledons

[Habanero Fellow]

What does it mean when a pepper seedling has three cotyledons rather than two? I have a few seedlings that are starting out with three cotyledons.

 

[RedtailForester]

Unless you live over a nuclear waste disposal area, I wouldn't worry about. It happens in Mother Nature's kitchen sometimes...

 

[geeme]

+1 - No biggie.

 

[Habanero Fellow]

 

[TOAW]

Perhaps for the same reason some people have six fingers, congenital not necessary genetic. Or that seedling is just an overachiever.

 

[Pr0digal_son]

Had a bunch of them this year. Actually had a couple of them put out leaf sets of three.

 

[Habanero Fellow]

One is a brain strain and the other is a scorpion douglah cross.

 

[rhm3769]

My butch t and a Santa fe grande branched into three initially....

 

[RedtailForester]

IT'S A SIGN OF THE RAPTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Wulf]

I had one with 3.

It stayed a runt and died before growing a true set of leaves.

 

[Balac]

It is natures way to signal that "The Bears Still Suck"

Old Wisconsin Nature Song