"What is this plant?", you might ask. Well, we have absolutely no idea. It sprouted up out of the coco peat next to our thyme starts about a week ago.
It is not something I planted, but I am suspicious that Steve stuck a giant pumpkin seed in there with the herbs, and just isn't telling me. He's been going on and on about these giant pumpkins. "But where will we put it?", I ask him, "the pumpkin alone gets to be five feet wide!". After foiling his plot to take over the yard with enormous pumpkins, I wonder if he's planting them behind my back. He pleads innocent, but we'll see.
With the coco peat being coconut husk and all, at first, we figured that it must be a coconut. Well we had a huge 'DUH!' moment a day or two later when we realized, "Ugh, don't coconuts actually grow from COCONUTS???". There definitely wasn't a whole coconut in there somewhere, so it has to be something else.
The coco peat comes from India, so our next guess is that it is a tree or plant native to India. I sent some pictures off to my mom, who lives there, and might know an Indian tree expert. We'll see if she can find us an answer.
We'll continue to post updates on our mystery plant. Hope we can keep it alive!
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