Baby Rat snakes all have blotches on a lighter gray background. As they grow, depending on the subspecies, the coloration changes, except for the Gray Rat Snake, who keeps the baby pattern for life. Black Rat snake turns black with age (yours is a Black Rat), Yellow turns yellow with four black stripes, Everglades Rat Snake turns all yellow or orange with a suggestion of stripes, and Texas Rat gets even heavier blotching. Timber Rattlers are rarely found in trees, always have a rattle (unless the tail has been cut off), even when tiny (at least a "button"), do not have "diamonds" or blotches, but "chevrons" (like sergeants stripes) down the back. Their adaptations do not include tree climbing, as they are a "sit and wait" predator, being heavy bodied and slow, waiting beside animal trails and tagging a small creature when it strolls by. Rat Snakes will actively pursue food, climbing trees to get to bird and rodent nests, going into burrows to find rodents, and even going into houses in search of rats and mice. This is why birds get all upset when a snake is in their tree. Rat Snakes, curiously, have a flat tummy with belly scales that can flatten out and grip bark and inconsistencies in wood, climbing quite as well as a squirrel, though slower. I had a pet Black Rat snake that I would put on a pine tree, and when I removed him, he would pull bark from the tree.

Mangos aren't from a rainforest climate. They're monsoonal, which means a hot, humid wet season (summer) with higher temperatures day and night, and a hot, low humidity, dry season (winter) with higher day temperatures and a lot lower at night. Too much humidity can cause fungal diseases so in general it's good to water the base of the plant and keep water off the leaves, especially in the colder months. Looking at the photos the mango looks good. They grow and then stop a while. New growth comes with a flush of new leaves. So it's growing normally. When your winter comes there wouldn't be much growth but still take it out into the sun each day as much as you can. Temperatures below 15C you should have it inside/warmer. It will actually survive lower temperatures, but better if warmer. A seed grown mango can take around 8 years to produce fruit. But then you can't guarantee the fruit will be much good.

I'll take another close up picture today, but it looks like its got 2 needles coming out of each hole. I'll put a ruler on the needles too. I have so many I don't know how I can pot them all. Right now each of them was dug out with a pretty big root ball because the soil is still nice and wet. What am I going to do with all these??? And where to plant them???? I have a pretty big wet area (sometimes wet in spring and fall), maybe I could put them there.

i like your optimism... with that pot.. lol ... there is a theory.. that things prefer some bit of being pot bound ... yours will not be so for a very long time ... i might think about doing pot in pot ... right in that giant pot ... also ... you dont mention your media... trees prefer a sip of water ... then total drainage.. and near drying before the next sip ... the stuff you have in that pot.. looks like it might hold way to much water for a tree ... which can be solved.. if your smaller pot had media more attuned to trees ... trees dont grow like other plants ... it has probably put out everything you will see this year ,... thats it ... but it will be growing roots.. for next year growth ... probably time to plant some annuals in there.. so you will forget about your little tree for the rest of the season ... but those plants like a lot of water.. so you would be back to a second pot with tree media ... so you could keep it.. drier than the rest ... ken