the big sapodilla is recovering with a flush of new leaves. the two smaller ones look gone, no leaves left. one is still limber so I’ll wait on it
also pictured, my partner’s apple and grape seedlings
and, my mystery plant is still growing
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My guess is black sapote
Bunch of white sapote
Rare sweet myrcianthes guabiju putting on some nice growth. She grows slowly up until lately.
Longipetiulatum doing well
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it very well could be a sapote. I had it marked mamey when I put the seeds in the pots but I’m often mixing up labels.
Not a canistel, but a mango. Not very exciting, mango seedlings are a dime a dozen. Good news is its probably a seedling of the “Tebow” mango I thought I didn’t plant the seed of. Bad news I still haven’t had a canistel sprout then.
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Tumbo Passionfruit (Passiflora mixta). A type of banana passionfruit from the Andes mountain region. Not sure how well it will do long term in my area, but I am just glad I have some germination already.
Passionfruit seedlings (Passiflora edulis). These are from the large sized fruit I had before, and they are starting to develop their true leaves. When I go home next weekend I might take these with me to start seperating them out.
Tzimbalo seedling (Solanum caripense). An exotic solanum, closer to the pepino melon than like a tomato. Pretty excited about fast germination, my luck with solanums is always mixed.
White Ice Cream Bean seedlings (Inga laurina). Hopefully I will be able to divide these when they get a little bit bigger, and 2 seeds become 6 plants. Thats what I did with my other Inga. Super fast growing seedlings, hopefully these ones don’t get stunted like my others.
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Nice snail.
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thanks, it was a gift from a client at work! i love snail, frog, and owl things for the garden. my partner has ants and turtles.
my sapodilla is coming back pretty good. the rest are all growing and i keep finding more strewn around. i just got pawpaw seed, they’re in the fridge a few weeks until maybe next month i can put them out to try. they might end up in greenhouse over winter if they pop small when it’s starting to get really cold. not sure yet on timing.
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I had never heard of sapodilla. Sounds interesting. Id need more overwintering area than i currently have availabile to make an attempt.
Calamondin seedlings I started from fruit that came off the tree we have in the front yard.
Some moringa seedlings.
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Lychee seedlings. Seeds are from fruit I got at a farmer’s market in Coconut Grove.
Wampee seedlings. Seeds from fruit I ate at the Fruit and Spice park.
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This one is interesting. It’s a seedling I started from the fruit of a Coggshall mango. Coggshall is monoembryonic from everything I can find. But this one sent up two.
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Mamay seems to be the one nobody has heard of, it’s like pumpkin pie in an football shape fruit somewhat resembling avocado in texture etc.
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I love Inga!
Almost a reason to go back to Brazil!
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Note that Mamey Sapote and Sapodilla typically refer to different fruit in English, Pouteria sapota and Manilkara zapota respectively (and Mamey by itself can also refer to a third fruit, the Mamey Apple). Both fruits look very similar, both are called sapote in Spanish depending on where you live, both are from the tropical Americas, but they are different fruits.
Mamey Sapote is as you described, a big brown football thats orange and sweer potatoy on the inside. Sapodilla (which is what @resonanteye is growing I believe) is a significently smaller brown, egg/football shaped fruited that is brown and gritty on the inside and tastes like a melon coated in brown sugar. Sapodilla is also reportedly cold hardier than Mamey Sapote.
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Lychees (Litichi chinensis) from the Kwai Mai Pink variety I reviewed a while back. They seem to be sprouting pretty well, but they gotta survive two more weeks in a community pot. Easier to travel with them.
Governor’s Plum (Flacourtia indica).
Achacharu (Garcinia humilis) or Abiu (Pouteria caimito). Judging by what I can see, leaning alot more towards abiu. Plus Garcinias are notoriously slow growers.
Idk, maybe you can tell me. It is one of the fruit I ate. My money would be on jackfruit or cacao, but it could be anything. I had to repot because a cat knocked it over, and there was no visible seed in the soil.
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Everything is more cold Hardy than (sapote) Mamey! 
It’s from the south of Mexico and really tropical only.
Tamarind seedling. This one came up very fast. Still waiting on the other 3.
Some native twinberry seedlings.
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Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) forest in a pot. One group is from a tree at Neem Tree Farms and the other groups are from a tree at the local Arbys.
Gin berry (Glycosmis pentaphylla), seeds from Bellemy’s. I have others in the greenhouse that are doing well as well.
Star apples (Chrysophyllum cainito) seedlings from some fruits I ate. Pretty happy that these are growing, they have very pretty leaves.
Annona maritima seedling from Bellemy’s. Very pretty and small annona. These things have a cool globby fruit. I have two of them from seed.
Junglesop seedlings (Anonidium manii) from a TFF guy in Cameroon. Took forever to germinate, now I have 4 good looking ones, and 3 so-so ones out of the 10 seeds I bought. One of the largest arboreal fruits in the world.
Blackberry jam fruit seedling (Rosenbergiodendron formosum/Randia formosa). I have about 15 seedlings from a couple fruits I got at a botantical garden in Lakeland. They are getting a trial by fire treatment though, and I lost a couple to sun damage.
Supposed to be Black mulberry (Morus nigra) seedlings. We will se if they actually are. Even if they aren’t, I wanted some more mulberries besides Dwarf Everbearing anyways.
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Have you ever been to the Florida Citrus Arboretum sharq? I have a few gin berry seedlings and a bunch of jackfruit seedlings started from seeds out of fruit I got there.
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