Wow! Very interesting. Should produce an extra-healthy plant :)

Linda

What's the cause when you get a tricot seedling?

Dave: Somewhat common and is usually the result of 2 fused seeds, not any mutation.

So the analogy would be that this is "congenital" and not "genetic", like conjoined twins in humans?

the mutant reference was more of a joke. xD
i've sprouted hundreds, if not thousands of seeds and never experienced this before, but i have seen others with 2 distinguishable stems fused. this one is only one. i've had plenty of seedling that came out with 3 cotys though.

I thin that perhaps it is not fused seeds ( 2 seeds tangled) but a single seed with 2 embryo under one cover. I could be wrong. .

yeah, i am pretty sure it wasn't two individual seeds stuck together as that would of likely produced two separate, but close together stems. this thing is one plant all the way up to the cotys.

guess we'll see what happens as i'm probably going to let it pan out to see if it grows faster than the other seedlings.

seysonn: I thin that perhaps it is not fused seeds ( 2 seeds tangled) but a single seed with 2 embryo under one cover. I could be wrong. .

That's what I assumed Dave meant. I also wonder whether one zygote can split partway after fertilization, just as happens sometimes with conjoined embryos in animals.