What's going on with my pansies?

Dear all,

I started some pansies from seed a few weeks ago, they started very well but then started showing some nitrogen deficiencies which I already fixed and now they are recovering well. After fixing the problem I saw some new growth as expected, except the shoot you can see in the picture with white balls on the top. Any clue?

After some time spent on google I still don't understand what it is.

Thanks in advance!

 

Pedro, those aren't Pansy's! Is it possible you mixed up the seeds with something else?

 

I don't completely discard that possibility but the odds are low I guess. I don't have many other seed packages around, the closest thing I have to pansies is watercress, the leaves can have some similarity between them. In fact I used viola wittrockania seeds and not pansies but I think the structure of the plant is the same, so not really relevant.

Here it goes a closer shot of the leaf structure.



Are those leaves from watercress or violas?
After some side by side comparison with images from google I'm still not sure.

I will feel very dumb if these plants are not violas... Well, there's still time to grow them for winter bloom

 

if you started these just a few weeks ago they arent pansies, but maybe violas. I haven't grown violas so I am not 100% sure about that. I do grow pansies and they are sloooooooooow to germinate and grow and have a much rounder leaf shape. Mine take 4 months to get to that size. I start them in Nov to sell them in April/may.

 

Pansies are in the Viola genus, they are V. wittrockiana.

Those leaves don't look like Viola to me, but I haven't had all of them. The 1st pic of the buds doesn't look like Viola either.

 

Mystery solved I guess. I found this pic on google of watercress flowering.



So, very likely, according to the leaf shape and white buds I mixed the watercress seeds package with the violas. So proud of me, smart!
Well, time to start over again, no worries, I still have time.

Thanks for your time.

 

The success of the seeds you did plant is phenomenal, well done! Looks like you will soon be full-circle, harvesting the seeds of the plants that grew from the seeds you planted. Good vibes that the pansies do just as well!