I planted both of these from seed at the same time from the same black krim packet. The one on the right actually looks and smells like a tomato plant… and the one on the left… well, it smells like a weed.
The seedling photos I attached are of the one on the left, which looked like a tomato plant through its whole baby phase till today.
Please tell me if this is an imposter plant or an actual tomato plant 😭 I don’t know how a weed seed could’ve gotten into my black krim packet but I’m afraid I am a sucker that babied a friggin weed with my high end lights and soil haha
by snowrexxie
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Doesnt look like a tomato to me. It could have been a weed in your planting mix
looks like eggplant
Agreed it’s solanaceae and I’ll vote for eggplant.
I also think it looks kinda like an eggplant
I’ve never grown an eggplant that has that many leaves and that growth pattern. My vote is weed.
The picture this app said it’s nightshade.
https://preview.redd.it/4jn53ekudx2h1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e26aff77392cc156052eafe3bff8d80f9862cbd1
Def not a tomato. If I had to guess I’d say tomatillo, but that’s a low-confidence guess. And if I’m right, bad news because they’re not self-fertile… with only 1 you can’t even get some salsa verde out of the deal 👎
you need the flowers to identify nightshades. eggplant, black nightshade, very distinct flowers
Are the progress pics of the imposter? It looks a lot like a tomato in its early days if so!
Looks like amaranth seedlings. I get them in every pot i put outside. The seeds are just everywhere
Ground cherry, Cape Gooseberry or Hairy Nightshade
Imposter
Not a tomato
Not eggplant either. FWIW Google image says not tomato – it’s a nightshade – maybe ground cherry
Definitely not a tomato.