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6/20/2025 2:04:23 PM EDT
So I have a Tabasco plant I have kept alive a couple years now and I planted some of the seeds.  I have this seedling that’s growing.  But it doesn’t look like its parent plant.    I grew a seedling last year that looked just like a regular Tabasco plant.    

Here is the new plant and the parent plant.   Why are the leaves so much bigger on the seedling

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6/20/2025 2:06:56 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Ambridge77][Edited] [#1]
Those look great!

I don't know why they look different.

I just miss living in the country and
growing peppers.



Alea iacta est
6/20/2025 2:09:39 PM EDT
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Well these are  in big post.   You don’t have a place for a couple of big pots?
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6/20/2025 2:17:49 PM EDT
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Wouldn't the seedling experience larger growth
because it's younger and primed to grow large
and quick to capture sunlight?

No facts to support my theory, just a thought.
Alea iacta est
6/22/2025 1:58:51 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Lucifer_Sam][Edited] [#4]
Might be a hybrid that doesn't breed true, could have cross pollenated from another pepper variety, the peppers genetics might not be completely stable even if it is a heirloom, to name a few possibilities.


If you've got a pepper you really like you can clone them from cuttings.

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