well, one was supposed to be a tomato. the other eggplant...

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i happen to be looking over my seedlings i started weeks ago and noticed something odd in one of my pots that should have been a Bianca Rosa eggplant. it's a tomato of some sort but the seeds that were in the package all look to be eggplants. i'll just have to let this one grow out to find what it will be. the leaves have purple undersides. there does seem to be something sprouting in this pot so i am hopeful that is one of my eggplants. maybe i should plant the remainder of the package just to see if i will get more tomatoes or the right eggplants.

now for a real conundrum. i planted some Kosovo tomatoes i got from BarefootGardener in this pot and i don't think this is going to be a tomato. i don't even know what it is. i think it came in the soil and not with my seeds.

 

[thistlebloom]

Is that second one a hollyhock maybe?
I had something like that come up in what was supposed to be a tomato pot in 2011, and I was mystified until it got a little bigger and I realized it was a hollyhock. I have no clue how it could have happened as the flower seeds were all still in their jar.

 

[digitS']

What do you think?

henbit (click)

And, those sure don't look like eggplants! You know, an tomato turned on the Bianca Rosa eggplant I tried to grow last year. I probably made 2 mistakes - trying to grow such a late maturing eggplant & allowing my 1 volunteer-tomato-for-the-year grow right beside it.

Steve

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

wow, that looks pretty darn close to those pics of henbit. i was using fresh starter i got from the store.

so you're telling me that eggplant and tomatoes can cross pollinate?

just for the heck of it i think i will plant the rest of those seeds just to see what i get.

 

[digitS']

No, no Chickie'sMoma!

I didn't mean that volunteer and that Bianca Rosa were that closes!

I meant the tomato crowded the eggplant. I didn't plant it so it was just a decision to let it grow - wrong. There wasn't 1 eggplant that came off the Bianca Rosa, not one.

Steve

 

[so lucky]

Henbit seed may be so small you may have had it on your hand or the edge of the pot. Or maybe blowin' in the wind.

I don't think I even know what eggplant seed looks like....anything like a tomato or pepper seed?

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

eggplant seeds tend to look like pepper seeds-smooth since they don't have any pulp that dries on the seed. but i find they are smaller sized than a pepper's seed. tomato seeds tend to look like they dried with fuzz on them from the pulp.

 

[897tgigvib]

I don't think a tomato has ever crossed with an eggplant. That's not what that is. It is a tomato.

yep, the odd seedling is Henbit or maybe another lamium.