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Submitted by jovial_cynic on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 6:54pm.
Mutant Snap Peas. One of my favorite things to grow is sugar snap peas. They're easy to grow, you barely have to take care of them, and they're delicious. I've got a good sized set of vines growing right now, but one vine seems to be a mutant freak. Here is a good and ordinary sugar snap pea. It's a little immature, but you can see how nice it looks: 
 That's how they are supposed to look. However, this mutant strain seems to be bearing the pod people of tomorrow:        And it's not just the pods. Even the leaves and the flowers are twisted and weird:   I'm a little scared of them. I'm not sure I want to eat one. But I think I'll harvest the seeds and sell mutant sugar snap peas to whoever is interested in them. If I'm the unwitting cause of the end of humanity as a result of spreading the plague pea pod (PPP), I'm sorry in advance.
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Submitted by Keith Hufnagel on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 10:43pm.Bad seeds, poor soil, or perhaps herbicide drift.
Submitted by Laurian on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 9:38am.Not bad soil
Submitted by jovial_cynic on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 10:02am.It's planted in the same soil as the rest of my snap peas, which are doing quite splendidly.
I'm not fully convinced that it's "bad" in any way. It may simply be a genetic variation. But I'm doing some research on pea viruses to make sure that I'm not going to eat a sick plant. But again -- it may not be sick. This may simply be a manifestation of a mutated strain, which isn't necessarily bad.
http://newprotest.org
How do they taste?
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 3:49pm.A little scared...
Submitted by jovial_cynic on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 4:17pm.And what if they're TOXIC?!
:: shrug ::
I think it's sterile, actually. The seed pods don't appear to contain fully grown seeds, even though the pods themselves are the size of fully grown pods. Someone on another site where I posed this question said that peas have the ability to retain the genetic code of parent pea plants, causing extra genes to be present... making my pea plant sort of a down's-syndrome strain.
http://newprotest.org
The mottling in the plants
Submitted by ctqwn on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 8:05pm.Mosaic
Submitted by jovial_cynic on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 8:28pm.Yeah - all the pictures I've seen online of the pea mosaic virus shows the mottling on the leaves, but I haven't seen any curled up pods to make comparisons. But yeah - the leaves seem to match.
http://newprotest.org
enation mosaic virus
Submitted by ktk on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 9:09pm.Yup, you got a virus. It's spread by aphids. The pods are bumpy and the leaves mottled. There's no cure but it won't hurt you.
Kate