I’m growing about 9 types of tomatoes from seed this year. I have 4 seedlings from a packet; two appear to be regular leaf and two are potato leaf. Did my packet end up with two types of seeds in them or can this happen? They’re heirloom. I’m pretty sure they’re Thunder Mountain, but could be Purple Calabash (they’re labeled, but I’m not able to check right now). I wasn’t planning to pot up that many of this variety, but I was curious about the different leaves! Is this possible for the same type to have two leaf types, or is it likely that they got mixed up (by the company or me!)?
(Pics of the varieties I’m growing for tax 😁)
by gardengoblin0o0
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I planted 30 variety, pink brandywine and red potatoes leaf brandywine.
Well, I’d check which ones have the two leaf types and then look up what type of leaf they are supposed to have. Then I’d grow out the seedling(s) with the correct leaf type. It could be your seed source had some crossed seeds. It could be that variety is not quite stable yet. Probably crossed seed. I’ve had the occasional crossed seed and it has never resulted in anything I wanted to carry forward. If you have limited space, I’d grow out the ones that fit the type they’re supposed to be. As far as I can tell, the two you mentioned would be regular leaf.