Mango polyembryonic seed

[12Zodiac]

I planted a lemon zest seed and 3 shoots sprouted. I searched but still confused which of the 3 shoots is true to type. I want to separate them and discard the not true to type one. Thanks.

[fruitnut1944]

Those are nice looking plants. I have a number that are just behind yours. So I have the same question. What I think I've heard is that the biggest plant is the one that is cross pollinated. So that would be the one to discard.

Online I saw someone separating them at about the stage yours are at now. That's probably when I'll try to separate mine.

Good luck. Maybe someone with actual experience will chime in.

[12Zodiac]

Perhaps you’re correct that the taller one is the crossed pollinated since the leaves are different from the 2 smaller ones. 

[Eggo]

From my understanding the pollinated one could be the most vigorous or the least vigorous. It would be the one that's different if you have 3 you could easily identify it. From my experience lots of times it seems to be the most vigorous one.  Lemonzest should be an easy one to identify, the new leaves are very citrusy when u crush the young leaves.  I'm actually growing several lz seedlings but keeping ones that's different or interesting. I have one plant that has an amazing citrus/Indian smell that I immediately up potted the plant to a 15 gallon. Fruit might end up tasting like puke who knows but man those young leaves smell amazing. I haven't smelled anything like it. And I don't think I even have that good of a nose, ahah.

[sapote]

I hate to discard any healthy vigorous seedlings, so why not plant them all in pots and wait. Some will die and you might ended up with a single tree, true to LZ or not but a good tree, then if the fruits are not good then topwork and graft something on.

[Oolie]

If the crushed leaves smell similar to LZ fruit then you've got a likely clone.

I had three mono LM seeds this year, two with the correct leaf aroma, and a third with no aroma at all.

Good luck Eggo, if you have an established tree, you can graft the interesting one to it for quicker evaluation.

[Elijah]

I hate to discard any healthy vigorous seedlings, so why not plant them all in pots and wait. Some will die and you might ended up with a single tree, true to LZ or not but a good tree, then if the fruits are not good then topwork and graft something on.

I agree with you. I don't like to discard vigorously growing tree. What I don't like is a tree that doesn't grow.