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Teachers can you help?

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StarlightMcKenzie · 05/04/2013 19:29

DS came home with a pot of soil with a small shoot at the end of term.

He has ASD and is totally unable to tell me what it is, and I have not contact with his classmates due to distance of his special school.

So, what is it?

(And, is it likely that his barely out of school herself teacher is playing a joke and it's smokable?) Wink

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StarlightMcKenzie · 05/04/2013 19:30

I have to add too, that I have never ever grown anything so am unlikely to guess. I only know it isn't cress.

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jo164 · 05/04/2013 19:40

Does it have pairs of leaves? If so, could be a sunflower?

melonribena · 05/04/2013 19:41

We always grow broad beans in my year 2 class!

Tiggles · 05/04/2013 19:44

DSs school get given a flower to grow some time around now, by a local garden centre. They then take them back in several months later too see which is the best - they win a prize at the garden centre. This was never conveyed by DS1 (with ASD) but I found out in retrospect when he announced after several weeks he had to take his flower back in. He won the competition, but someone else (presumably jealous) in the school proceeded to pull off all the flower heads Angry.

mrz · 05/04/2013 20:01

he has probably planted a seed and rather than let it die over Easter the teacher has sent it home for you to nurture with your obvious green fingers

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StarlightMcKenzie · 05/04/2013 20:45

Yes a pair of leaves. Though I just looked and theirs four of them now. Confused

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LindyHemming · 05/04/2013 20:46

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StarlightMcKenzie · 05/04/2013 20:47

DS just said it is a potato. Hmm

I know nothing about these things but guess it probably isn't.

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RueDeWakening · 05/04/2013 20:48

DD allegedly brought a bean plant home at the end of term (year 1). It looks nothing like any bean we've grown at home, more like a flowering plant of some sort. So we're none the wiser, and even if he told you what it was that doesn't mean it's necessarily true :o

Taffeta · 05/04/2013 21:37

Potatoes don't grow from seeds, they grow from potato tubers.

My money's on broad bean. Look anything like this?

Taffeta · 05/04/2013 21:38

Try posting this in gardening? Can you take a pic of seedling and upload to your profile?

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StarlightMcKenzie · 05/04/2013 21:38

Not really no. There are only two leaves on each shoot, but they are quite small atm.

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Taffeta · 05/04/2013 21:41

Potato seedlings

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StarlightMcKenzie · 05/04/2013 21:42

Nope. Definately not them. Honestly though, I wouldn't take my ds' account seriously. He also said that maybe they were carrots.

I think not.

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Taffeta · 05/04/2013 21:43

sunflower seedling

Taffeta · 05/04/2013 21:45

Carrots take forever.....

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StarlightMcKenzie · 05/04/2013 21:56

Nope. Not like those, though your first link mrz came up as 'forbidden' - what WERE you linking to?

On closer inspection, each shoot has two roundish leaves, but the stalk is kind of split into two before each leaf starts.

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StarlightMcKenzie · 05/04/2013 21:59

The stalk has a bit of whitish stubble.

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Taffeta · 05/04/2013 22:12

Brussels sprout?

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StarlightMcKenzie · 05/04/2013 22:22

Not sure but definately the closest so far Hmm

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RueDeWakening · 05/04/2013 22:27

Tomato plant?

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StarlightMcKenzie · 05/04/2013 22:35

No. Leaves are much rounder than that. maybe it is just too early to tell!?

Maybe it's just grass or something.....

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sashh · 06/04/2013 08:22

IMHO all veg/flowers start off looking the same.

It is probably a bean or a sunflower, both grow quickly and easily. just keep the soil moist, not saturated.

noisytoys · 06/04/2013 08:29

DD brought home daffodils in a little pot they took weeks to flower