[sarah-king]

I planted 5 tomatos bush variety and all but one are looking the same, one of the plants is 3 x the size and doesnt look anything like the others it has bigger leaves which point down if makes sense? I havent mixed them up as they were labelled as i planted, anyone any ideas?

[Ice]

A picture paints a thousand words.

[mumofstig]

Maybe an odd seed in the packet, if the plant is much different to the others

[Paul Plots]

It's a Triffid!! 

[compostqueen]

sometimes you get one that looks like a Christmas tree and that will be a dud. Yours sounds like a different variety, one with a potato-like foliage, which some varieties have

A photo would help though 

[peterjf]

did the strange seed come from the volcanic dust cloud ,

strange things a happening these days lol                          area 51 1/2

[Paul Plots]

did the strange seed come from the volcanic dust cloud ,

strange things a happening these days lol                          area 51 1/2

Volcanic dust.... Sweep it up and bag it! I bet it would be a wonderful growing medium   

[lacewing]

It could be a potato leaf tomato, they are large plants with big flat leaves just like potatoes.

[savbo]

On the off chance I chitted a few chilli seeds from a crushed chilli packet and planted them in modules. 2 of them are clearly tomatoes - some form of bush I think as there is no clear leader - do you reckon they might be bulking out their product with tom seed?

anyway, looking forward to seeing what they're like

m

[Swing Swang]

I got an odd seed in a packet last year - turned out to have a better flavour for both cooking and salad than the variety that I wanted to grow. Now have 24 of the mutants ready to go in the ground - I'll see what happens, and might even cultivate my own strain and call it 'Swing Swang'!  (although it's probable that it's a 'named', open-pollinated, variety that contaminated the batch from the seed merchants, and which appears elsewhere in their catalogue  ).

Anyway - post a photo, and give it a chance!

SS

[Trillium]

It's possible that sarah's triffid could be a Siberian type of tom. They're bred to grow fast in very short seasons. And it's not unusual to find the odd 'wrong' seed in a packet.

[mumofstig]

You are so right Trillium, the Purple Ukraine toms I grow, are tall and the leaves are skinny almost floaty and are do hang down 

The first year i grew them I thought they had a virus till I found a photo on line

[Paul Plots]

It's possible that sarah's triffid could be a Siberian type of tom. They're bred to grow fast in very short seasons. And it's not unusual to find the odd 'wrong' seed in a packet.

Growing fast in a short season may soon be a very valuable trait if outside tomato growing is to remain common in the Uk without spraying to combat blight. 

How I hate the rotten blight 

[sarah-king]

Hmm how do i put a pic on, its on my phone (which i can get on here with) but my cable for comp has broken??  Its a very strange looking thing it doesnt seem to have many leaves either compared to all my others! (Even the other varietys)

[sarah-king]

ok i think this might work..



This tomato is much taller than even my normal ones!  The smaller ones in the pic are from the same packet..