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Weed or pepper

JaneylondonJaneylondon Posts: 56
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Hello all

 

i am trying to work out whether I am nurturing a weed. The first pic is of what I think is a healthy naga pepper plant. The other two are what I'm now suspecting could be a weed that the birds brought me. I am growing the. In my balcony planters and this time I was very careful. I covered the planted seeds with polythene until they were well and truly on there way. I did this with thyme and scotch bonnet peppers which are doing very well.

just need to know if this is a weed so I can uproot it. The healthy naga plant is growing   in the same planter.

i will say that the stork/stem of the the plant I want identified is a rhubarb colour.  please help if you can.

 

 

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  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    The first is a pepper, ive no idea what the others are, but they dont look like weeds that i know either, could they be amaranth??? I would be tempted to keep them for curiosity sake image
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Pretty sure it's a weed and likely one of the chenopodiums. 

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • JaneylondonJaneylondon Posts: 56

    Damn if it's a weed. But I will keep it for a minute and see what happens. The naga peppers are in the same planter.

  • JaneylondonJaneylondon Posts: 56

    Yep bekkie hughes I looked at dome pics and it's indeed amaranth. So I'll just have to pull it out.

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