Growing all weird from seed attachment

Sitka_Bruce · Mar 20, 2026

Fairly new to growing here. The plant in question is a Harlequin in FFOF. About 4 weeks from germ.
One of my seedlings had the seed casing still attached to one of the cotyledons and I didn't notice it for a week or so. It stunted the leaf and seemed to grow incredibly slowly after I got it off, after nursing it back up to speed it now looks like this. The plant on the right, obviously. It has one gigantic leaf jutting out and what seems to be normal growth underneath it but it's growing all weird and I don't know what to do. Should I cut off the big goofy leaf? Leave it alone? Trim it some other way?

Beazy · Mar 20, 2026

Leave it alone they will usually grow out of the weirdness

Ninjadogma · Mar 20, 2026

Sitka_Bruce said:
Fairly new to growing here. The plant in question is a Harlequin in FFOF. About 4 weeks from germ.
One of my seedlings had the seed casing still attached to one of the cotyledons and I didn't notice it for a week or so. It stunted the leaf and seemed to grow incredibly slowly after I got it off, after nursing it back up to speed it now looks like this. The plant on the right, obviously. It has one gigantic leaf jutting out and what seems to be normal growth underneath it but it's growing all weird and I don't know what to do. Should I cut off the big goofy leaf? Leave it alone? Trim it some other way?

You should be good. The defective growth looks like it's at a node, not the top. I recently had one what was defective at the top. The seedling shed the defective leaves, the plant reprioritized itself and then grew a clean healthy top and moved the defect to a node. It was very cool to watch play out. The plant control-alt-deleted itself!

Sitka_Bruce · Mar 20, 2026

Ninjadogma said:
You should be good. The defective growth looks like it's at a node, not the top. I recently had one what was defective at the top. The seedling shed the defective leaves, the plant reprioritized itself and then grew a clean healthy top and moved the defect to a node. It was very cool to watch play out. The plant control-alt-deleted itself!

Sorry here is a better picture, it only uploaded one. I really can't tell where the big leaf is growing out of, the top or the node.
But if i understand correctly you are saying it will reset itself no matter what, growing from the node or the top? I just worry about the weight of it.