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15 years ago

This is my first year starting peppers from seed and I bought a mix package of seeds. This came up. I might be nursing a weed up I don't know. It is thriving. It has small flowers and now looks to have small fruit or seed pods growing? I would love some comments on this one. This is the only one of its kind out of all my seeds. I have about 70 pepper plants growing only one like this. I'm going to try to add pics but I'm doing this from my phone so wish me luck. Thanks ahead of time. Mike.

http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z334/mdryfhout/IMAG0527.jpg

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Comments (17)

  • 15 years ago

    the flowers look like peppers but I dont recognize the leaves, but then I have only 25 varieties and there are thousands Ive never seen, I certainly would just wait and see, from the looks of some of those flowers, it shouldnt take more than a couple of days to see what they will produce, good luck!

  • 15 years ago

    What ever comes out of those flowers I'm eating it! This ones got me baffled. Someone's got to know.

  • 15 years ago

    Interesting...I've never seen a pepper with a serrated leaf-margin.
    Hopefully one of the other growers will recognize it (if it's a pepper).

    Josh

  • 15 years ago

    Hot peppers don't have serrated leaves. That's either a weed or some kind of berry, maybe wonderberry. Wonderberry has little white, downcast flowers like peppers do. The longish stems on your flowers and buds also suggests berries to me.

    Ultimately, if all you want are peppers, chuck it. If you want to try for berries, let it ride. If it's just a weed, well... it'll be a very healthy, happy weed.

  • 15 years ago

    It is a close cousin, or I guess you could say siblnig, of peppers. They are from the same family, Solanaceae, but that is a Nightshade. Only eat the fruit if you plan on taking a trip to the hospital because they can kill you. Certain types can be eaten for medicinal purposes when ripe, but I cannot tell you what ones and all contain a chemical that is highly toxic to humans. So just don't eat them. They make very beautiful landscape plants though.

  • 15 years ago

    Is this a Jerusalem Cherry, then?
    The first thing I did was a google search to see if they have serrated leaves.....
    couldn't find anything immediately, though.


    Josh

  • 15 years ago

    looks like a tomatillo seedling to me, although mine have had yellow flowers in the past i believe.

  • 15 years ago

    Looks like a jimson weed seedling to me

  • 15 years ago

    Updated pic. Thanks for all the info. I would hate to get poisoned. I just can't rip it out yet, is like to see a comparison pic.
    http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z334/mdryfhout/IMAG0542.jpg

  • 15 years ago

    Doesn't look like any tomato plant I ever seen. Nor any kind of pepper. I am no expert but it looks like a weed to me.

  • 15 years ago

    looks like NoahE is correct Google search click on images type in Common Nightshade (Solanum nigrum)

  • 15 years ago

    Nice job NoahE and habjolokia. Guess ill be pulling it out... Who wants it?

  • 15 years ago

    Jerusalem Cherries come in several varieties.
    I got one called Persimmons Ornamental one year.
    The person thaught it was a Pepper variety that was poison...

    http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/pepper/msg041804126642.html

    Here is a link that might be useful: Jerusalem Cherry

  • 15 years ago

    I would guess some sort of solanaceae--there are a lot of them- cultivated and wild

    Here is a link that might be useful: solanaceae

  • 15 years ago

    I pulled it! After looking around my yard I found it popping up all over.

  • 6 years ago

    That plant looks very similar to mine.....

    My son talked me into purchasing some seeds off ebay for 99 uk pence,these seeds

    Were meant to be caroline reaper seeds.

    When the plant started to establish it had jagged leaves.

    When the flowers appeared they were clumped and started to produce berrys.

    These were green to start off but then started to turn black,these didnt look to me like

    chillies.

    I then decided to look on the net for this plant and hey presto.

    DEADLY KNIGHTSHADE.

    What person in their right mind would sell these...

    Thought i wouls share this to warn others.

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