some tropicals/subtropicals, unknown, and a mangy cherry or plum (?). planted passion fruit, sapote (?) and other seeds. have been trying to get sapodilla to start from seed, no luck yet with the few overpriced seeds I was able to order
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I haven’t had any luck with sapodilla seeds either. Fresh from fruit (one from a farmers market and one straight off the tree) or from a seed store. They rot pretty easily for such a big seed.
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Do they not germinate at all? I had a batch that did not sprout at all but the seller sent me fresh ones from seed and they all did rather quickly. This was months ago.
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not at all- they’re not moldy, they’re intact, just no germination yet. but I think they may take a while, don’t they?
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Got some dried “wild Kandak” apricots and have tried growing out the seed. First two have sprouted. Fergana Valley, Kyrgyzstan if they’re labeled correctly.
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The ones that came up for me from fresh fruit took about 1-2 weeks to sprout. I don’t recall if the older ones ever did. Probably not since I was given fresh ones.
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The Gooseberry seedling a bird planted under a pear tree is getting a bit bigger, so it graduated to a bigger pot. It was a tiny thing with two true leaves when I found it.
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My harem of seedlings, about 200 loquat (127 in one gallons and a few community pots left to separate out) lots of Eugenia, psidium, Annonas and Garcinia. Everything doing really good in this location of almost all day shade with some early afternoon sun 12-2 approximately.
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I just saw that Sheffield’s has 2024 harvest sapodilla seeds listed:
I might pull the trigger on a 1-ounce bag of seeds for $30, which is about 40+ seeds, and if I do that and succeed with germinating them, I’d be happy to give you some seedlings at some point.
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I would love that.
I’m going to be on your side of the mountain beginning of November, we should talk about what I could bring you, and what I wanna steal from you in return!
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You might think a deer passed by and took a bite out of this apple seedling (the plant from the first post in this thread), but you would be wrong. It was a naughty toddler (mine). It was still actively growing, she took off 4+ inches. I’m sure it’ll recover… Damn those terrible twos though!
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Can toddlers be trained to fend off deer? A friend has an older one that’s great for mowing grass. 
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End the question there. Yes and no. No a toddler cannot be trained as a toddler. They will be into everything.
But yes they can be trained, but it takes far longer than the toddler stage. In my experience, it takes 16-20 years of repeated direction, correction and daily help. YMMV
My toddler trying to help water new transplanted flowers. Circa Spring 2005. She spent the whole day blocking the water from the plants.
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Jintao and Oriental Red seedlings seem to be doing well. I don’t want to bring them inside too early but I keep wondering what the borderline temperature of a variety grown in Italy could be. These are just an experiment thathas gone surprisingly well so far.
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Puñuela (bromelia pinguin) seedlings popping up. Very quick to start. Pineapple relative thats fruit is supposed to be little berries as opposed to one big pineapple and extremely tart.
Lemondrop mangosteen about to push out its fourth set of leaves this year. I gave it some iron to try to darken those light leaves, but it didn’t really help. It seems to be doing fine so I am just not gonna worry about it.
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The lucky black sapote that just got potted up and brought in to a sunny window in our house as a winter houseplant:
All its siblings are stuck out in the cold greenhouse for the winter instead.
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Cocoplum sandwiched between two passionfruits that were in my soil (or a very pretty weed).
In ground Ice Cream Beans. My potted ones are alot taller and green and overall better looking, but these ones are bushier. Hopefully these inground ones get there act together next spring (and they don’t die back this winter).
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I think these are little dragonfruit seedlings. I had some fruit that were way to high up to harvest and the wood peckers ate them a rained seeds down on my pots. Theres about 5 of these already sprouting.
Edit: Adding that the mother plant is a self-fertile pink skin, white flesh kind. Probably Vietnam White. Got it from a non-gardening friend who got it from their neighbor, so the variety was not given.
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