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Originally Posted by peebee
I've had the same thing happen this year to a Captain Lucky seedling, it's when there is one main stem but at the bottom there is another smaller one that grows off that main shoot right? I have not planted it yet as it is growing so slowly and now I have no more room. Is there any difference between a fascinated one and a normal one, once grown?
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I don't see Steve's photo above as showing a fasciated stem since he shows that one stem has dark leaves and the other stem has light leaves, although both are rugose.
If they are indeed joined below what one cannot see in the picture, below the surface, I think it's more likely the result of a somatic mutation.
Most mutations occur in seed DNA while somatic mutations occur in the DNA of a plant cell and are permanent and heritable.
There are quite a few examples of somatic mutations known, even one here at Tville where the variety known as Casino Chips was a somatic mutation of the much larger variety Casino where one branch had cherry tomatoes.
The variety Riesentraube gave rise to Yellow Riesentraube when just ONE fruit on a plant of the normal red ones was yellow.
And I've seen a few of my own. One was Dix Doight de Naples where one branch had still red fruits but of an entirely different shape. Another was with the variety Green Gage where one branch had not the normal yellow fruits, but red fruits.
Steve, do you think you could somehow seperate them and see what the root systems are like and possibly grow them individually?
Carolyn