New to growing your own tomatoes? This is the forum to learn the successful techniques used by seasoned tomato growers. Questions are welcome, too.
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I have a georgia streak seedling with 3 cotyledon. What does that mean for the plant and for the tomatoes?
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Nothing really but maybe more branches from what I have seen.
In nuts like pecans the seed inside will be three pecans in them instead of two. This isn't conducive to modern shelling machinery so it will cause them to bring a lower price. Worth |
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I have had a few triple's and i have not noticed any difference in production or growth. It is neat when it happens though. All you can do is grow it and see what it brings.
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It will bring the plant good luck
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Must live around a nuke plant.
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![]() If we are talking Plant Kingdom, cotyledons are Greek, and your person grew a tetracotyledonous seedling. A tetracot! ![]() (Unless they had a bovine quadruped when they saw it) |
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https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=meaning+of+quad I stand firm on what I posted as in quadcot. ![]() The university I went to had many quadtrangles, four sided, for sure. ![]() Carolyn, who notes that you might like tetracot, but in the tomato world, at least, all I know refer to them as quadcots, see Google search above. ![]()
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See here, if you're standing firm, that's great news ![]() Here's an interesting peer-reviewed figure of polycots including a tetracot, explained away with the "defective embryo and meristems (dem) mutation: ![]() Reference: Keddie et. al., The Plant Cell Journal, Transposon Tagging of the Defective embryo and meristems Gene of Tomato paper Quadrangles, from the latin root word of angle, does not mean four sides as much as four angles ... though one goes with the other. Four sided is quadrilateral or if you are a Bruce Lee fan like me, maybe a tetragon. A cow is a quadruped but it is a tetrapod. ![]() Humans are dipody, not bipody, but we are bipeds. Photographers use monopods, and dipods, not unipods nor bipods... out of respect for ther ancients... And more to the point in tomato genetics, they're polyploid (Greek-Greek) not "multiploid" (A chimera). Flowers (flora) from Latin can be multiflor, not polyflor for the same reason. Just for fun, chimera is Greek, hybrid is from Latin hybrida. Multiflora is Latin, but Polyanthus is Greek, both mean multiple flowered, but there are no polyflora or multianth... Hope that helps ![]() ![]() ![]() Last edited by FLRedHeart; March 6, 2015 at 02:17 PM. Reason: Plural of anthus? (plural & singular? multianth... no such beast LOL) |
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![]() I have four years of Latin behind me, Greek not so much,which helped considerably for those like myself who ended up teaching med students as well as being involved in scientific research. http://iai.asm.org/content/26/1/254.full.pdf Polyploidy? Yes, I have several links in my faves but no time to go searching for those now b/c there are a total of about 2K entries. Google Searches? Yes, I do trust Google when searching for specific information that I can't find elsewhere, usually peer reviewed. I was a peer reviewer for the journals of Infectious Diseases, Virology and Journal of Bacteriology. Marsha ( Ginger), good thing there isn't a like button here at Tville, as I see it, and more specifically for this issue. ![]() Carolyn
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my special baby is getting real leaves
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