Lychee suckers?

[Xeno]

So I have an airlayered lychee plant and I decided to look into the pot and lo and behold I see what appears to be a sucker.

1. Has this happened to anybody else?
2. Should I rip it out or let it grow? I'm thinking of letting it grow.
I haven't thrown any lychee seeds in this pot so i'm assuming this is coming up from the root. I forgot which variety this was.

[VyVy]

awww

the little tiny thing looks so cute
I recently paid 80.00 for my 2 feet airlayer lychee

hopefully it will fruit next year

[fruitlovers]

I have about 20 mature lychee trees in the ground and i've never seen one single root sucker. That doesn't mean it's not possible, just not likely. My guess is its a seedling. You can carefully dig around it and see if it really is connected to mother tree? Hard to tell at that stage but is it possible it is a seedling of something else?

[Xeno]

My guess is its a seedling. You can carefully dig around it and see if it really is connected to mother tree? Hard to tell at that stage but is it possible it is a seedling of something else?

I do have a couple of seedlings growing but I never mixed the seeds into this container.  It's heavily mulched so it'll be pretty hard for a seed to germinate but tomorrow i'll look around. I'll update it tomorrow.

Funny thing is that I do have a seedling which looks very much like this one.

[Hollywood]

Funny you should mention that because I noticed a red jaboticaba sucker on my young tree yesterday. I'm not sure if that is uncommon. When it gets a little bigger I'll probably try to transplant it to a pot and nurture it there.

[Xeno]

Hard to tell at that stage but is it possible it is a seedling of something else?

Update: Yes it was. I dug around and somehow a small seed happened to be in the mulch which had germinated. I yanked it out.

[Xeno]

awww

the little tiny thing looks so cute
I recently paid 80.00 for my 2 feet airlayer lychee

If you do Ebay you may want to do a search for 'lychee air layer'. For $80 you can get 5 different varities of lychees. That's how I got my trees.