They are some kind of grass, possibly even corn. Yes, cut them off. BTW the other plants are not Livingstone Daisies. There are hundreds of plants with daisy flowers. Do you know what species you sowed?

or birdseed ...

never heard of watering media... to keep it alive ...

you either start with fresh media.... or sterilize what you have.. if you want to avoid weeds

regardless.. pick them out ... while they are small.. and its easy ...

you are extremely over seeded ... you might want to practice taking some of the babes out.. and potting them in some fresh media .... lots to practice on ... lol ...

are you somewhere where they can go outdoors ... or are you growing them as indoor plants ...

ken

floral_uk, this is the packet of seeds. These are not imported but probably local from the style of English on the back. And it took a hard time for me to search online to match "livingstone daisies" with "mesembryanthemum".

ken_adrian, I over seeded on purpose. I watched a few videos on Youtube before planting the seeds and one of them described over seeding and I figured that since the pot is so large I want to see a lot of daisies when they bloom and make it epic.

This is another seedling that has rounder true leaves. Could anybody identify what this could be? Should I also clip it off?

Looks like a pot of weeds to me. Possibly crab grass and pigweed or similar. Do you know for a fact if all those wider leafed ones are daisies? You said:

'Before planting the seeds I kept watering the soil in the pot to keep it alive, I'd say a full week so I wouldn't say that the soil was already contaminated with other seeds considering the fact that everything started sprouting after I emptied the daisy seed packet into the pot.'

Not sure what you're saying here, but most seeds take days to weeks before they sprout after watering has begun.

I would have begun with some purchased potting soil -- soil that is known to be weed seed-free.

It looks like weeds to me, too. You could microwave the potting soil.

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/microwave-potting-soil-48342.html

Last one looks like a Trifolium sp.

There are a few little round leaved seedlings there, smaller than all the others. They do look like possible candidates. Can you tell us precisely what plant you mean by 'Daisy' or 'Livingstone Daisy' so we have an idea of what to look for?

I have no idea. I just happened to drop by the seed store and picked up a pack of Daisies and felt like growing them. But I could not find what kinds of Daisies these actually were so I googled "mesembryanthemum" and saw a link that mentioned that these are called Livingstone Daisies. I have posted the photo of the seed packet above.

Mesembryanthemum criniflorum (judging by the pic on her seed packet) is what she allegedly planted.

tj

So am I good to go? Should I expect a colorful pot by summer with flowers like the ones in the packet?

I do spy what look like the livingstone daisy seedlings - very tiny w/ succulent leaves, but the rest looks like pigweed & some sort of grass to me as well. I would carefully remove the weeds, w/o disturbing the seedlings.

OK - that's exactly what I understand by Livingstone Daisies. So, yes, I think you do possibly have some real seedlings there amongst the imposters. as I suspected and Carol also suggested. LD are S African plants which do not want to be too wet so water very carefully. I'd snip off the imposters. If you pull them you'll disturb the good guys' roots.

carolb_w_fl do you mean the ones that are smaller around the center with a yellower green color? I have been thinking maybe those seedlings were getting deprived of nitrogen. Perhaps that's just their color and are not gonna turn out like these larger pigweeds.

By the way people here's what I think i'll do;

I know what pigweed looks like so I'll wait till they grow out the grayish pointy flowers or whatever the they're called. If I see such a thing then I'll waste this whole pot and start with fresh soil. Unless the tiny yellowish seedlings around the center turn out differently, I won't clip off all the pigweed.

Here's a confession too people; this pot had this plant for a very long time, I do not know what it is called but its quite famous in gardens here in Pakistan. Here's a photo of the same plant out in the lawn;

The pot I am growing daisies in had this flower plant which was a very sore sight so I removed it and then kept watering the soil to keep it alive (basically I was keeping the micro critters alive) I know this sounds pretty unheard of but its just an OCD trait I have with soil since I create my own compost and believe the bugs should stay alive when it goes into the pot for growing something. So basically what I am saying is that I watered for a really long time yet nothing sprouted. Nothing green could be seen, not even tiny weed that I occasionally see growing even in fresh potting soil. So I took it as the soil being sterile enough.

The only thing I can blame is the seed packet. Maybe I got ripped. Unless the fact that I sprinkled some black gold from my compost bin after sprinkling the daisy seeds for growing that might have cause the unwanted seeds to finally sprout, however I don't think the gases compost releases have anything to do with sprouting seeds that might have been in the soil. All seed sprouting needs is a moist environment which I had been providing it.

The only thing that makes me feel hopeless is that these plants do look like pigweed. Because what I did last year was try grow flaxseeds and something grew in it and I asked here and people said it was pigweed, here's the photo from last year;

So last year I took this plant and instead of wasting it, I took it to this larger pot and transplanted it there, it grew a little and so the point that I saw more of pigweeds growing around it, almost as if the flower dropped the seeds there which promoted the growth of more pigweeds but only in the close proximity of the original plant. But then I remember all the pigweeds disappeared, up till a few weeks ago when I cleared the pot and sprinkled daisy seeds into it I did not see a single pigweed plant. But then again, these are called weeds so I can't imagine how they spread over the whole pot, I didn't even till the soil and just stabbed it a bit with the trowel and sprinkled the daisy seeds from the packet.

So here's what I think I can do, I am going to wait till these plants grow a bit more and wait to see if they grow pigweed like grayish long flowers. That'll be a dead giveaway that these are all indeed pigweed and I'll scrap the whole idea and start over with fresh soil.

Naveed - if you allow the pigweed and the other weeds to continue to grow they will crowd out your Mesembryanthemums. That's one of the reasons weed species are so successful in the world. They out- compete weaker and less robust plants.

'These are called weeds so I can't imagine how they spread over the whole pot.' They spread because you allowed, in fact encouraged, the pigweed to grow and set seed. Once that has happened you will get hundreds of babies. The seeds survive easily in soil and in compost.

If you want any chance at all of successfully growing your Daisies you really do need to cut off the weeds.

If you let the weeds flower, you will be ensuring many more seeds & also likely smothering out the plants you want. & yes I mean the teeny tiny seedlings that are a lighter color - which I do not think is a problem. If you do a Google Image search for "livingstone daisy seedling", you will see what I am saying.

Many weed seeds will survive for years before sprouting.

Pigweed forms a thick taproot & I would pull before it gets more of a foothold - same for the weedy grass. Then those other seedlings will have chance to grow.

BTW, you can also image search 'pigweed seedling' & 'grass seedling' as well...

The reason I said I'd let the pigweed grow out a bit was so I could easily identify them when they start forming the flower and remove them. But I guess I'll take your word carolb_w_fl and clip off the pigweed and keep the lighter green seedlings.

I found this photo online while searching for "livingstone daisy seedling" and use it as a guide when clipping out the pigweed. I also remember seeing red colored stems on some of the tinier sprouts in my pot but they are very very thin almost like they'll die the next day.

By the way, the flowering plant appears to be vinca (Catharanthus roseus). It grows around here as well

If you decide to research the Vinca use the botanical name, Catharanthus roseus. Vinca is a species in its own right and the use of the word as a common name for a plant of a different species could lead you astray. Another of its common names is Madagascar Periwinkle.

So I removed all the weeds from the pot and leaving behind the daisies. Now does it look like a daisy pot? I do not know why but some of the daisy seedlings are fallen down, the base of the stem is just pinched and dying, almost like clamped umbilical cords. Could these be just week seedlings?

And as for the pigweed, they do have very long taproots;

Could I perhaps bake these removed pigweeds in the sun then crush and sprinkle the powder in my compost bin? Or is is a good idea to just keep these away?