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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: clumsy on May 26, 2013, 15:04:09

Title: Help With Plant ID
Post by: clumsy on May 26, 2013, 15:04:09
Hello to A4A Members. I hope I'm in the right place. I would like your help in Identifying these plant Please.


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Title: Re: Help With Plant ID
Post by: ruud on May 26, 2013, 15:51:01
if they taste peppery,it is mustard.
Title: Re: Help With Plant ID
Post by: Unwashed on May 26, 2013, 17:11:10
Certainly a cruciferae of some sort, could even be oil-seed-rape.  How about raddish?
Title: Re: Help With Plant ID
Post by: hippydave on May 26, 2013, 17:48:18
its definitely that family as the flea beetle seem to like them.
Title: Re: Help With Plant ID
Post by: clumsy on May 26, 2013, 22:47:33
Thank You for the help so far. I was searching on google looks like mustard but not sure ( so many different varieties ). I know in india they grow these. I need to know what the plant is called in English to find the seeds.
Title: Re: Help With Plant ID
Post by: Digeroo on May 27, 2013, 04:27:36
If they are grown in India I would suggest brown or black mustard.  You can get packets of the seeds from Asian supermarkets.  I use as green manure. There has been a suggestion you might import brassica disease but I have not seen any problems they seem to be fine.   I have tasted the leaves and they are quite nice but a little too furry in texture for me, rather better at the cotyledon stage as sprouting.
Title: Re: Help With Plant ID
Post by: clumsy on May 28, 2013, 18:14:08
Thank you for the help you have pointed me to the right direction. i have brought some black mustard seeds will sow them when the rain goes away.
Title: Re: Help With Plant ID
Post by: grannyjanny on May 28, 2013, 18:38:36
If you google identifying veg seedlings you might find something there might. A friend asked me if I knew what one of hers was, she thought it was a brassica but from that site I found I thought it was a cucumber. I was right, thanks to the site.
Title: Re: Help With Plant ID
Post by: star on May 29, 2013, 11:53:11
Hi Clumsy, if you let these plants grow and flower you should get your own seeds. Im not sure if you would need to net them to stop cross pollination from other brassicas though. Hope you find what you're looking for.... :toothy10: