This is my cherry plum trees in a pot together. I am unsure when or if I can separate them but they were grown from seed together.
This is my pot with two pink lady apple tree sprouts also from seed
My mango trees from a champange mango seed that is now 1.5 years old.
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I tried to start a bunch of locally sourced seeds.
Osage Orange have two popping up. I want to grow them up and graft Che to them next year.
Red Chokeberry from the local park. It was fenced in and planted by the local government.
Non-russet giant Korean pear from the Asian market seedling in a bigger pot.
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beautiful !
do you put them in tree liners after this or into 1 gallon pots ?
im asking because im going to try and do rambutan and pawpaw seedlings and it will be my second try right now im doing lemons and orange cuttings i purchased from a nursery
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If you look closely, you can see new leaves popping out of these 3 garcinias (couldn’t grt a picture of all in focus at once). The one in the front is gamboge (g. xanthochymus) and the other 2 are two of my lemondrop mangosteens (g. intermedia). I bought that gamboge at that exact size last spring, this is the first time it has pushed out new leaves. Garcinias start so fast, but grow soooo slow.
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Well I’m sad to report that out of all the seedlings all but 3 apple seedlings have died.
I have grafted 2 peach scions onto wild plum rootstocks. I used cleft/modified cleft graft for those. It depends on the rootstock and scion size. I use either whip and tongue or cleft/modified cleft.
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Little tiny musk strawberry (fragaria moschata) seedling (or a weed, but it looks like a strawberry). I don’t really like regular strawberries, but I do think they are very pretty plants, so I decided to try musk strawberries from seed. Hopefully I end up with a good mix of males and females.
Seperated one of my jamun (syzygium cumini) community pots out. All of those probably came from like 3 or 4 seeds. Pretty healthy still after a day, so it looks like the roots did well
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What type of apples seedlings are the red ones?
I also use whip and tongue graft on reasonably sized scions. If it’s a smaller scion I use cleft graft. If the root/seedling stock is small I just let it grow another year.
Those seedlings were all from Lucy glow apples that I purchased at the grocery store. There was one that kept the red leaves all summer. The others more or less greened up on the leaves but kept the red colored stems.
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I just looked at that Lucy glow red apple today. It’s on a planter on the deck and seems to be leaving out.
Still red. 
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capulin cherry maybe
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Thanks for the feedback. I am trying an apple seed growing project this year in hopes of red leafed apples and a disease resistant variety for the hot and humid southeast. I have around 40 different varieties to experiment with. I tried this a few years ago with maybe 10 different types of apples. The survivors after the first year were McIntosh, Sugarbee, Golden Delicious, Anna, and Golden Dorsett. Initially the McIntosh seedlings had a lot or red growth but that dissipated.
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This is what I wanna do too! put them together then as they grow individually plant them out. I am in NY do you recommend I place them inside now or plant them in a container outside and cover it from any rodents eating the seeds?
I sprouted those Lucy glow seedlings in 2 batches. One batch was seeded inside after cold stratifying in the fridge and placed into individual 16ounce starter pots. Probably around Thanksgiving.
The second batch was done about new years and all the seeds were stored in an empty cup after the fruit were eaten over a couple days. Then I dumped all the seeds into a 2 gallon pot with old flower soil from last season. They were lightly buried under about 1” of fresh soil. Then left out in the raised bed till spring sprouting.
The spring sprouts VS the inside fall sprouts seemed to even out by the summer solstice in size and growth. The inside ones needed live alm winter in those lil starter pots. I would do it all the easier way one pot next time. Once the plants are about 6” tall I dumped out the oit and gave them all their own 2 gallon pot. If you have rodent problems there maybe a cold garage instead?
sprouts:
Cups and one mass planted pot side by side
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I find chip budding peach trees to be very easy. Around here you can do it from about July 1st until Sept 1st or so.
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Do you cut the top off the following Spring?
do you use chips from dormant scions or fresh growth?
