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My Misadventures in Gardening: (Almost) Everything Update No. 2

It's been a while since we've gotten any interesting fruits, so I don't have a cool new post about harvesting seeds and planting them. I do, however, have a bunch of plants that are growing that could do with another update! Here we go~

Here are a few mango seedlings I have going: SAMSUNG CSC

This is the youngest. It's just now starting to unfold its little leaves, how cute!SAMSUNG CSC

Here's the middle one. It's leaves are growing at such an uneven pace, it's so weird. That huge one is so long its touching the dirt under it, and the tiniest leaf on the plant is on the level right below it.

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And here's the oldest one, the big one! It kind of stalled out for a little bit, but recently it started to show new leaf growth.SAMSUNG CSC

You can see the teeny tiny new leaves on the top here.

Here are my many pomegranates:

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I feel like they've kind of stalled out. I'm telling myself they're just putting all their energy into growing roots, but we'll see. There are two or three of these guys that are doing really well.

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This is the best looking one. Besides the cotyledon leaves, it currently has three levels of leaves.

The tiny kiwis:

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I ended up transplanting them from the egg crate soon after they started sprouting because mold was developing. I tried to clean off as much as the moldy dirt as I could, stuck them in new dirt and hoped for the best. They seemed to have taken it well!

My teeny forest of dragonfruits:SAMSUNG CSC

These things are growing so fast. I noticed many of the seedlings were starting to touch the plastic wrap that I put on them initially to create a greenhouse effect, so I had to improvise to come up with something that would still create that effect but would also let the light in and let them grow taller.SAMSUNG CSC

This is what I came up with. I grabbed some glass cups and they ended up fitting inside the plastic cups perfectly.

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Here are the zip locked little guys. Man, the other ones are doing so well I'll probably have to just throw these ones away. Ugh, I'll feel so bad!

And here's the one I'm the most excited about - the mamey sapote!

SAMSUNG CSCYay, it's finally shown some growth! It has split open more and you can see the gigantic fuzzy stem in the middle!

SAMSUNG CSCSeriously, look at that thing. It's like the width of a pencil already. It's like a small creature is inside of it, hah.

It's funny, I look at my plants and get frustrated that barely anything has happened and then I come on here and look at my last post and realize there was actually quite a bit of growth happening!