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Old 06-01-2012, 04:31 PM
HipsterKitteh HipsterKitteh is offline
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Originally Posted by Pat Kiewicz[_2_] View Post
HipsterKitteh said:



I have a small collection of plants which i grow indoors as I live in
the UK and most of the plants are tropical/require warm climates. One

of
the plants I grow is a small catnip ("catmint") plant. Everyday I water
and check on my plants for signs of pests and disease etc. This morning
I noticed a tall hairy dull green stem growing in the catnip plant's
pot. Either I had simply not noticed it before, or it has magically
grown up to about 10cm overnight. Either way I would like to know if
anyone can recognise this mystery guest of mine, and if they could let
me know if it should be eradicated or if it is safe enough to have
around [Pictures below]

[image: http://i.imgur.com/nbzzc.png]


It's a very leggy seedling. It may even have suffered a bit of damage to
the seed leaves (hard to tell from the picture). There is only enough
imformation to eliminate a whole lot of possibilities, and nowhere near
enough information at this point to proberly ID the unknown.

If you are willing to let it grow for a while, it might be possible to
identify it, but this is also the best point to snip it out and be done
with it.

Sorry for the bad quality, my camera refuses to focus on the right area
:/


You need a camera with macro settings to really get up close to little
things.

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Pat in Plymouth MI

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Thank you I don't see how it could have received damage in any way, I haven't touched it :/ Anyway, I'll do as suggested and let it grow. This will be interesting :P