WOW!
That's not common, but its cool to see it happen.

I had a couple this year as well. They seemed a bit slower - if anything - but that could have been because it was a super hot.

Some of the articles I've read suggest cutting one of the cotyledons off any way to speed growth...

Will be interested to hear how yours progress.

Yah, I wont be cutting the leaf off. I am going to try to grow that one plant to maturity and see if there are any other genetic variations that show up. Maybe two headed pepper pods?

It will be interesting to see the results... Maybe you'll end up with an Esox strain of a pepper haha.

I had this mutation on a scotch bonnet, and also on an orange Hab. I didn't mark them in any way, and I can no longer tell the difference between them...

I get a couple like that every year.I don't see much difference in them than any other plant.
Probably depends on if it is caused by a phisical defect or genes.
I've read it can be caused by an embryo being damaged or from extra/different genes in the seed/plant.
either way,if it comes out with 3 branches rather than 2 at the top you'll get a bushier plant.

Sounds like a win either way....

by the way Smokemaster, I updated my grow list with my current varieties... Anything you need on there? OBV they are still seedlings at the moment... But seeds will be here before long.

There are generally 1 or 2 posts each year with people surprised to see 3 leaves on one of their babies. The general consensus is, there is no difference in the adult plant. It's kind of cool though. :-)

I agree with TSHEETS...I've seen it before, but never made much of a fuss over it. It is cool though..thanks for sharing!

Hi Bruce,

Closer look, it does seem a fourth one is there just not as developed as the three can you confirm? That would be cool.

Thanks,
Mark

Mark:
I dont see a 4th leaf. If you are talking about the thing sticking out towards to bottom of the photo, that would be stem and soil material.
I took another photo just now at a little lower angle. I think they are soon going to be putting out true leaves too.

Bruce

Thanks for the second pic indeed it must have been soil material/stem thanks for confirming

It does look like this pepper as well as most of my other peppers are starting to put out some new "true" leaves now.
Bruce

It's the best once those true leaves appear they just zoom up in size, it feels like seed to cotyledon takes forever. Yours are looking good.

mine terminated really fast, but since, it really has slowed.
Bruce

I have a whole batch of assorted habs that have come almost to a complete halt in terms of size. They still have their cotyledons and have two true leaves, and have been the same size for about two weeks. We had a bit of a cold snap in the middle... I suspect that... I'm thinking about giving them a weak dose of Alaskan fish tomorrow or the next day when I need to water again.

Just an update, the true leaves are starting to show on my "Tricotyledon".

Bruce

sweet - hard to tell from the picture but are there going to be 2 or 3 true leaves?

I had to take a look at it with a magnifying glass to see how many true leaves were coming in. I could only see the one single leaf that you see in the photo. The green one. The darker leaves are three seed leaves. I don't know, but this plant may be a mutant. I will keep any eye on it an post a new photo if something else develops.
Bruce

Let us know if it suddenly starts shooting laser beams or controlling magnetic fields. ;)

Edymnion: I haven't noticed any laser beams and I checked for magnetic fields but I haven't detected anything like that going on. But to update it's progress, here is the latest photo from tonight.

It is the one in the upper left corner. With the new true leaves coming in, it almost looks like a 4 leaf clover.

Maybe there is something X-files like going on.
Bruce

Hey! I've got a triploid too!

My sprouts have started coming up in the past few days, and I found this guy among the babies.

Hey, hey. Cool. Mine already dropped its seed leaves (premature) as did most of my other seedlings. Hope you have good luck with that guy. Keep track of him this summer, save a few seeds.
Bruce