I’m not sure if it’s a jalapeño or a serrano pepper plant. The seed sprouted from last year’s dropped harvest and I just let it do its thing, but the leaves and the stalk are WAY larger than anything I had planted in the bed previously. Is this normal and will it still bear fruit? That’s my (not at all small) hand and finger for size reference.
by safetyclub
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Not a pepper 🙁
Maybe dock?
Pokeweed?
Looks pokey to me
I almost want to call it a weird pokeweed.
But yeah, it doesn’t look like any pepper I’ve grown, and I currently have seeds of some sixty varieties.
It’s not large – it’s big stemmed
Okay, after a quick google search, you’re all right. So strange bc I don’t have it anywhere else in my yard so maybe it was in the compost I used?
This is only my 3rd year vegetable gardening and I was so proud of how well it was doing LMAO
Oh well, more room for actual veggies!
TY for the responses 🦋
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It’s always a pokeweed
That doesn’t even look like a pepper lol
We could really use a banana for scale
It’s always pokeweed
I ain’t no expert but that ain’t no pepper.
r/itsalwayspokeweed moment!!
Reminds me of tobacco. Perhaps a related weed.
You can eat the leaves, but boil and rinse twice. The root is medicinal. The berries are poisonous. It’s a wonderful plant and quite beautiful.
Awwww
It sure picked a clever place to hide out!
That looks like comfrey to me.
On the upside the stems ain’t red yet, still good to eat! Gotta boil and rinse em 2 or 3 times tho!
That is a really good looking pokeweed
stop bragging
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