100+ persimmon seedlings.
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Does anyone have any thoughts on what these are? I don’t remember planting anything here, but it’s a spot where I might have dumped out some seed pots at some point, so could have been something that was slow to sprout. They have an Annonaceae look about them, but I’m fairly certain I’ve not had seeds of anything in that family since moving into this house, certainly not in the last couple years. There is also the possibility they are something that hitched a ride in with the wood chip load, and not a fruit tree at all.
Yeah I was gonna say looks like pawpaw
Also similar is dogwood but idk how prevalent that is out your way.
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My chip drop absolutely could have included dogwood, I’ve seen plenty of them planted around here in yards.
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But if we’re saying dogwood it could be Florida or Jamacian Dogwood too which is toxic and a whole different species. The young leaves look kinda like that to me. But who knows? Give it a few weeks and we will be happy to play guess the plant again. 
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Cornus mas/alba/sanguinea/kousa has a different branch and leaf pattern. Always paired leaves and veins stretching towards the tip. No fuzz either. So you can scratch that off the list.
This year’s kousa seedling for illustration:
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Not sure what this but its some sort of fruiting plant. I have things that I want it to be, but thats not how it works.
Passiflora, although they really remind me of citrus (which I haven’t planted any of). Do passionvines sprout straight up? My granadilla is doing that too, how do you get them to vine out?
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If I remember well, they develop tendrils and get handsy after a certain number of leaves like most vines.
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Definitely agree. But your first picture I just can’t tell yet.
Are they supposed to be cold stratified?
Assuming your talking about the cacti, nothing I’ve seen says they need to be. I didn’t stratify them. I was keeping them well watered originally, when I backed off some, they started sprouting. Don’t know if that was the reason they did, but its how it worked out.
When is the fruit ripe in your area? I forget when it ripens here but I want to say it’s late fall/winter. Which would make me think if it has a stratification period it would be brief
I got the fruit for this last November from a farmer’s market. But Summer time I’m pretty sure since I don’t see color on any of them anymore. Cacti flower in mid-spring, but I’m not sure if they are prickly pears or apple or another type of cacti. They are a super common landscape plant here.
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Some persimmon seedlings are over 2 feet tall with leaves significantly bigger than the mother tree, while some are still just a couple inches tall. Know the the reason for such variation?
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I see the same thing happening with my cornus kousas. The taller ones are those that germinated about a week after the rest had developed 1st true leaves. They probably won the initial temperature and sunlight lottery.
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I got three seeds to germinate from the white Chinese pears I bought. They were with a bunch more in potting soil that went moldy in the fridge, but I planted them anyway.
This is the type of pear I’m talking about
Skin is kind of thick like some of the large russetted pears, but I don’t hate the texture when I get a big bite of it, and I like the sort of nutty flavor it shares with the russetted ones.
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Interesting. I was just about to pull seeds from some Blutbirnen I had in the fridge for a month. Now that I think about it, I wonder if I should put them in a pot as I was planning to and risk germination and insufficient growth/hardening before winter. Or whether I should dry them and sow afterwards.
Lots of tamarind. All from sour mother plants, but they are from two different trees. They grow and sprout fast, so you’d think they would fruit fast, but they don’t 
African Sherbet tree (Dialium schlechteri). This is also the plant that I was unsure of before and thought was a bean. But my liechi seedling was in the same square, and when I dug it up I saw the Sherbet seed with an inch long root sticking out, followed by this little guy 2 weeks later.
Speaking of perennial legumes, my latest batch of pigeon peas is sprouting. I already have 5 in the yard over 5ft, so these ones are going to be for a work project.
Jaboticaba seedlings. First pic is Brillant Star T13 and Hong Ling, second pic is T12. T13 is supposed to be able to fruit in 3 years, so fingers crossed they do well!
Blue guarri (Euclea crispa), an African bush tree. I have about 10 of these sprouts now. Pretty glossy leaves.
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