On 11/02/2015 11:31 AM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Fran Farmer wrote:
On 10/02/2015 11:33 AM, Terry Coombs wrote:
One of my San Marzano tomatoes has different leaves , heart
shaped rather than lobed like all the rest . Wonder what it'll grow
? Guess I'll just have to wait and see ... I have that seedling
marked , and plan to keep track of where it gets planted .
Pretty much everything has come up now except the anaheims and
jalapenos , but they'll get there . Some of the tomatoes are almost
4" tall now . Hopefully I can get to the end of February before I
have to go to the 4" pots . By then I'll have my "little greenhouse"
built onto the south side of the house and will have room for them .

I've read the other replies in the thread, (and certainly agree that
it's possible that it could be a sport - but it could also be some
other things) but at 4 inches high, that is still a fairly tiny
tomato plant. How sure are you that this tiny tom. has yet developed
it's proper leaves as opposed to possibly more juvenile leaves?


It is easy to work that out. There are exactly one pair of cotyledons
which will be at the bottom. Any above that are true leaves.

I think I'll do a bit of a quibble about that, but only a minor one
because of a recent seedling example I seem to recall that I had.
Since I can't now remember which seeds I was raising and why I noted it
at the time, or even that I gave it more of a thought than a glancing
"That's a bit odd" in passing, then I do think it might be possible for
the seedling to still come good and be what it's supposed to be.

Sorry, I know that doesn't make a lot of sense, but I'm pretty sure I
had a similar "problem" that turned out not to be a problem with some
seeds I was raising recently.

On that strongly stated stance, I'll pop back into my box and close the
lid...........