Just watched this video this morning and I can honestly say this is a clear fake video timeline. Not sure what the timeline to bloom could be, but this one is a made up timeline I’m sure, the first few months they grow far slower than this video shows. I’ve germinated them different times of the year and nothing makes a 1-2 month old tree be over 1ft tall, my 9 month old isn’t much more than 1ft tall
I’ve seen a decent amount if chatter that they can produce in year 2 with ideal conditions (and probably an undersized fruit). I think the reasonable timeline is by year 5, which is pretty standard for “fast” fruit bearing trees as a whole.
There is so many different cultivars and species considered sugar/custard apple though. I’m sure its variable.
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I doubt they are rubra, since I trust that that Sheffield’s did in fact import this seed lot from India from someone who either believed or plausibly claimed the source was a “black mulberry,” and I don’t believe rubra is widely grown in India. But as you pointed out before, there’s still the possibility that it’s indica instead, especially since the fruit apparently looks a lot like nigra.
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My two 4 month old Solanum diploconos seedlings:
Both have branched for the first time and have a tiny inflorescence at the branching point. These have been much more heat and sun tolerant than the common tree tomato.
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Hmm, I’ll have to check out the video again, but it looked realistic to me - given other sugar apple plants I have seen…. also, being in the shade slows growth as well.
Certain plants once they hit their grove, grow like mad, i.e elderberry. Mine grew at least 3 ft on top of 2.5-3ft from last year’s growth (in the spring), it’s also in optimal soil from 10+ years of wood mulch + cow compost + it is a native plant too,
Lastly, I was in the process of starting a separate thread for growing Sugar Apples, since this thread’s main focus is pics of seedlings, but went down the rabbit hole of plant family, anyways, I’ll try to tag you
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I planted out my seedling of Lucy Glo last night (from the very first post in this thread). I decided to make it a street tree on my right-of-way, and I’ll graft it over to something else if it ends up making lousy apples. The stems have become quite red, but the leaves are still mostly green:
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Envy Apple seedlings. About time to get them outside and hopefully big enough to graft onto something. Not sure if that’ll actually make them fruit sooner or not, but a mystery branch is about as much space as I want to dedicate at the moment.
Pepino Melon seeds I started from store bought fruit. I doubt I have enough time left to get them to fruit before frost this year, but I’ll try overwintering one indoors. Anyone know if they root from cuttings?
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Never done it myself but they supposedly root easily from cuttings.
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Leftover mystery plant #2. Inaturalist told me it was a common bean, which I know isn’t true. Any guesses?
Tamarinds popping up! These sprouted very quickly. I have like 25-30 more seeds to start from the same tree, and another 25-30 from a tree at a different location.
These should be my Whitman’s Fiberless soursop seeds. These guys are gonna be greenhouse warriors since they are supposed to defoliate in a cool breeze.
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I mean that would’ve been my first guess, too. Could it be some kind of tree in the legume family? Could a squirrel have planted a bean there from a nearby garden?
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Could it be a pigeon pea?
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This might be helpful or not, but I think I had those and thought they were something but it turned out to be a weed… 
but I cannot recall what it turned out to be… reddit has a subreddit for plant ID, that I’d used, those folks are legit.
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Possibly a bean tree. I don’t know which plant that would be though. Very unlikely (but not impossible) that it was a squirrel. My main reasoning for it not being a bean was that these were originally in pots, I took them out of the pots because they weren’t sprouting, I put them in a wet paper towel for a little bit while I was traveling for work, and then replanted again. And its been a month since they’ve been replanted. I feel like a regular bean would have sprouted way before that. Some sort of legume tree maybe not though.
I have the shell casing, so I know its not pigeon pea. The ones I have also have much thinner leaves and are three-pronged. Not sure if other varieties look the same, but mine shouldn’t.
I might use them after some leaves flush out more and I still don’t recognize it. I was just including it with my other seedlings because I like taking pictures of seedlings. These are still the first leaf. The actual plant could look completely different.
I look forward to your updates.
This year I’ve gotten my first ever spontaneous apple seedling volunteers, I think due to the extraordinary yellow jacket activity last fall.
I left a couple in place that were more than one riding mower width distance from anything else. I put tree tubes on them and try to remember to give them a bit of water even though the big trees around them don’t need it as often.
Most of the varieties that could have been mother or father are excellent apples or at least have outstanding qualities, so I’ll be really interested to see what kind of fruit these might make if they got that far.
I’ve given similar treatment to a couple of sweet cherry seedlings out in the open. I tried budding surefire to one of them and will put Adara/Puente on the other if I get around to it.
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Lychee seedling. I have a few other popping up too, but this is the first one to leaf out (and the tallest). All of them are from fallen fruit from a tree down the street.
Cinnamon apple seedling (Pouteria glomerata/hypoglauca). This is my second seedling. It grew alot before pushing out leaves.
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Looks like a peach.
@evilpaul - i would agree that’s possible, but could it be a wild one? Like black cherry? I don’t know what grows in your area.
Two year old cherry seedlings. The taller one is actually the top, rooted, from the shorter one which was cut but had a graft fail on it.
