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zipcode · February 8, 2019

I think you probably mixed your seeds. If you only had these two varieties, then at least it's pretty clear what you got.
Cherokee Purple has normal leaf, and even crossed with potato leaf would still be normal in first generation, so those seeds got labeled wrong and they are SotW.

Now another possibility is that the ones you thought were CP last year were already crossed, so now you are at the second generation from a cross between CP and a potato leaf black. But in that case only some seedlings should be potato leaf, certainly not all.

February 8, 2019	#2
zipcode Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Romania/Germany , z 4-6 Posts: 1,582	I think you probably mixed your seeds. If you only had these two varieties, then at least it's pretty clear what you got. Cherokee Purple has normal leaf, and even crossed with potato leaf would still be normal in first generation, so those seeds got labeled wrong and they are SotW. Now another possibility is that the ones you thought were CP last year were already crossed, so now you are at the second generation from a cross between CP and a potato leaf black. But in that case only some seedlings should be potato leaf, certainly not all.