Please Help Me Identify These 4 Plants

[Buttsack]

Over the summer whenever I ate fruit I would plant the seeds but I didn't bother marking what they were. I thought they would be easier to identify but after a bit of searching on google I still don't know what they are. The seedlings in the first pic are baffling me. They look like capsicum but I never planted any capsicum seeds there, that I can remember.

I think it might be capsicum?

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Kiwi fruit?

Edited March 27, 2012 by Buttsack

[ballzac]

3 looks more like a papaver to me. Just make sure if it turns out to be an illegal species that you destroy it I agree that 1 looks like a pepper of some sort, but there are other solanaceae that have similar leaves. Did you plant anything from the solanaceae family? The others I can't help you with, sorry.

[planthelper]

1, looks like capsicum, but could be chili, definately solanum, and pepperfamily.

2, could be mango or longan, definately a tropical fruit.

3, a common weed, don't know the name.

4, a weed, probably sandpaper fig or similar.

[whitewind]

I would go along with planthelper, for sure. The common weed is Fleabane. It can get quite big and suck up lots of water and nutrients, and spreads a lot of seed by the wind. Get rid of it!

But, the sandpaper fig seedlings don't look quite like the sandpaper fig I know, more spiny than rough.

[Buttsack]

Thanks for the help. I've pulled the weeds that were 3 and re-planted 4. Is 4 most likely a weed?

2. How big should the seedling be before I re-pot it?

In the pot where most of these seedlings are growing I had a lifeless lychee plant. Since the other seedlings have been growing the lychee has gotten new leaves and is starting to grow. Would the lychee plant be pushed to grow faster because it is competing for soil with the other plants?

I've got a rasberry plant which hasn't grow at all in 3 months and is still a small 15cm high seedling. How would I get this to grow?

Thanks for all the help

[dionysus]

if 4 is a sandpaper fig, are they really a bad weed? i've only ever known them as hosts for tasty fungi like gomphus sp.

[planthelper]

i think weed doesn't mean it's not usefull, but it means it self seeds with ease.

the large culinary figs, for example can be grafted onto those sandpaper figs, as a drought hardy rootstock.

most of those figs which get probagated by the birds, make aswell good bush food/jam.

edit:

a weed is a plant in the wrong location... so humans see it.

a weed is a plant, that grows in the best natural location... so plants see it.

Edited March 28, 2012 by planthelper

[whitewind]

If it's sandpaper fig it's edible and quite tasty too. At least, the fruits are. But the leaves are really rough, last time I had to do some pruning I got a really itchy rash and, although I can't be absolutely sure, I think it was the sandpaper fig that was the criminal.

How big should the seedling be before I re-pot it?

Which one? With things like capsicums and tomatoes, I would take clumps of seedlings (to try to disturb the roots as little as possible, they hate it and it sets them back weeks) plant them in location and water them really well - watch out for slugs and snails. Feed heavily.

The seedling in pic2 I would wait another couple of weeks til it is a few inches taller and sturdier at the base, then transplant before the roots get too long and tangled. Water well after transplanting, and feed well in summer as it won't grow much in winter. Same for the lychee.

In the pot where most of these seedlings are growing I had a lifeless lychee plant. Since the other seedlings have been growing the lychee has gotten new leaves and is starting to grow. Would the lychee plant be pushed to grow faster because it is competing for soil with the other plants?

No, it's probably warmth and water combined. Add fert and it will go nuts.

I've got a rasberry plant which hasn't grow at all in 3 months and is still a small 15cm high seedling. How would I get this to grow?

Pot it on or plant it out and water well, add some organic fertiliser to the surface of the soil - not in the hole, or it will burn the roots.

[tarenna]

3 is Fleabane - Conyza sp.

4 looks to me like a very small kiwifruit seedling.

[planthelper]

i change my mind about #4, and 100% agree with tarenna, it's a kiwi seedling!

[Buttsack]

Thanks for all the help. It's good to know that 4 is a kiwi seedling.