do you have a picture you can post?

kendra

Hello , I got a picture of the leaves and measured them. They are 2 1/2 inches , not 3 as previously stated.Sorry.My Jalepeno peppers and Banana peppers look normal , Any thoughts???
CDGTXS

Here is a link that might be useful:

Any way you could have mixed up the seeds?? That doesn't look like any Serrano that I've ever grown...looks more like a cole crop to me.

Agh. Serranos have pointy and thinner leaves. The leaves also grow in pairs. I am growing 6 of them right now and 5 of them fit the "Pepper" looking kind of plant. I do have 1 Serrano that for some reason had 3 starter leaves and it has grown more than 2 sets at a time. The leaves still look like pepper though (oh well, gotta have one oddball plant every spring I suppose). One leaf (out of xxx) is round kind of like the ones you have there, but that is not the norm.

Ok, I guess I should refrain from stating that it is absolutely not Serrano, but man it looks suspect! Going to be interesting to see what happens.

It really looks like a cole crop leaf. More like a broccoli or cabbage plant. I have never seen a chili with leaves like that. Plus the little holes look like damage done by caterpillers that love cole crops...:)

kendra

I don't think it's a pepper either. What else did you plant?

john

Thanks for response all. It doesn't look like serranno to me either BUT the pepper I saved the seeds from did.The other plants I am growing this year are Tomatoes , okra(sowed directly into garden) squash( these are growing true to squash plants) , and cukes (Also growing true as cukes).It would have to be tomato , squash , or cuke to be a seed mixup as these are all I started from seed indoors,It does not appear to be any of these so I will keep you posted as season progresses.
CDGTXS

Very interesting, though! Definitely keep us posted, now I'm curious!!

Good luck with all the others too :)

ki writes > I do have 1 Serrano that for some reason had 3 starter leaves and it has grown more than 2 sets at a time.

Almost missed that. Polycotyledon mutants are something that I look for and try to save seeds from as the plants can be noticeably more productive. If you save seeds from your tricot you might notice a larger percentage of tricots next year.

For you tomato growers... It's been some years back that I received seeds for a paste-type tomato from Martin on the tomato folder that produced a good percent of tricots. Can't remember what he called his variety for sure, but think it was called Martin's Roma.

jt

I just took a picture of one of my regular Serrano plants and the "mutant Serrano". I have not looked up what it means, but maybe it will look familiar to some? (or maybe it's really not a pepper plant?) Ugh. Sorry about the rather large sizes of the images.

Eggplant??

Ditto on that. They look just like my Black Beauty eggplants.

O.K. folks , I figured this out a few days ago but have been too embarrassed to answer.When I was planting my flat of seeds I had 4 empty cells in one corner so I stuck some eggplant seeds I got from Wintersown in these 4 cells. They were in the opposite corner from my 4 Serranno pepper cells. Well , everything came up except the eggplant , which I have never grown before , so I tossed these 4 cells and planted everything up to larger pots then into garden.I found this when I got my chart out I made when I started my seeds to try to solve the puzzle.When I saw the eggplant seeds I realized I had tossed my Serranno peppers.I feel foolish but it ain't the first time.Any advice on how to grow and cook eggplant. Must be simple advice that someone stupid can understand.
CDGTXS

Grow them in large pots just like peppers--they like heat and lots of sun--attractive plants with pretty flowers. We use them in stir fry, roasted on the grill, and also make a yummy dip called baba ghanouj--good with baked pita chips--eggplants get mushy if you freeze them but the baba freezes well

Some eggplants

john

slice the eggplant about 1/2" thick, slather it with olive oil and salt/pepper and roast it on the grill :)