Siamese Twin Leaves - Mutated by Ag Chemicals, or just Natural?

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I've got Siamese twin leaves in two of my cucumber plants and I've also seen a couple on my beans. Is this natural or normal - like getting a double tomato or squash? Or is this something that I should blame on large-scale pesticide drift?

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I had twin Ping Tung eggplant on the same stalk last week and there is NO chemical drift anywhere near here. It's just something that happens, JMO.
 

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Gregor Mendel was writing about this "problem:"

Fascinating Fasciation (link)

I was noticing it in a Canterbury Bell just this morning. It may be a "good thing" in Celosia but it sure didn't do much for the looks of that bellflower!

I think there are things like this going on around us all the time, SeedO'. It is just a guess that they would include what you are seeing in your cucumber patch.

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I've been seeing that in my zucchini flowers, so far it's only the male flowers. So far this year it's been two, on different plants. Last year there was at least one I can remember, but probably more. It's like two stems grew together, and it has two flowers.
 

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I had a lot of strawberries like that this spring; lots of triplets. Now I see many of my 4 O'clocks are sort of glommed together at the top leaves--just one big double leaf. I have been wondering what is causing the increase in numbers, too, @TheSeedObsesser.
 

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@so lucky

It is an odd increase in numbers, before I'd be lucky to find any doubles or triples or anything (what would you call something in a group of seven?). We've been having cooler weather so that might be the reason why? (My warm weather crops are mostly failing me while my cool weather crops are thriving, completely backwards to how it usually is. It's June 21, normally most of my cool weather stuff would be dieing back by now or already dead.)

Oh, and we both double posted?
 

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It is natural, nothing to worry about.
 

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I must have deleted my last post (before the last one).

I noticeably have fungi in the garden - inky caps. And it's been very moist (lots of rain, mist, and fog) and cool lately, with short periods of the exact opposite (hot and dry).

I found some more fascination in my peas. One thick, flattened stem with seven flowers on it. View attachment 3126
 
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