Went to the website....I had to look up your fruit salad tree...too funny. I have seen the ad for the tomato's in the coupon section of the paper. But from the website I read

Fruit Salad Tree

Now! Grow 5 Different Fruits On One Single Tree!
Smothers Itself With Bushels Of Fruit All Summer Long
Look! Just One Days Picking! And It keeps on producing by the bushel-basketful all summer long! Shipped direct from the nursery - Strong, fully established, thickly-rooted 3-4 ft. trees. Each with a full money back guarantee or free replacement at any time!

Sounds like your tree and plants where in the mail too long, I wonder where they where shipped from. Sorry I have no other advice but to get your money back. I have never used this company.... but would love to hear more about a fruit salad tree. Maybe the tree was somewhere far north and the leaves had not started but by the condition of you other plants, I think it was just in the mail too long.
If you go for a replacement love to hear back how this tree did.

Never heard of a fruit salad (grafted obviously) tree.That sure is a lot of grafting. I wonder if the green part (trunk)isn't just the root stock and then who knows what you'll have? I'd send it back and hope for the best. Um, there are a LOT of exclamation points in that AD I hope they replace your plants.(IMHO/experience lots of exclamation points are a bad sign) They have garden watch dog for nurseries if you're interested. Good going on the vegies and really hot peppers!

Here is a link that might be useful: garden watch dog

Unless you're buying local...bare roots are hard to deal with except for trees and roses. It does sound like your fruit salad tree--if all you have is the trunk--is not likely to be as advertised. I suggest you research a small fruit tree if what you want is a fruit tree in a pot. I know some limes and Meyer lemons will grow in containers--maybe some satsumas (a type of citrus similar to tangerine but sweeter).

The garden watchdog site is excellent and will help guide you to reputable websites--there are hundreds selling plants, but some of them are notorious for ripping people off.

Looks like your climbing lily vine is what is called a gloriosa lily vine. Be careful--it also says all parts of the vine are highly poisonous if ingested, and that handling the tubers may irritate the skin. It sounds like it may also be capable of being invasive.

Here's a website on that one: http://www.floridagardener.com/pom/Gloriosasuperba.htm

If you can eat habaneros without hurling, you are a better person than me. Those suckers are far too hot!

Enjoy the planting and growing. Enjoy the learning part, too. Most of us have plenty of stuff that we find out later is a bust---it's the successes that keep us going (well, that and the temporary insanity that strikes every Spring).

Thanks for the messages, and you might be right about the plants, took them a while to get here, the tomatoe trees and banana are doing fine, not going to say the fruit salad tree is dead yet...no leaves but is still green on the trunk part. And from what you say about that lily....not really sure I want it to sprout anymore.... Oh, and the habaneros are a key ingredient in my hot sauce...1 is good, 2 is better, 3 is inedible...

Starstryker

Update, it seems the tree may not be dead after all, noticed a bud that has started to leaf today while I was watering, so it might survive. My habanero plant is growing like mad since I moved it to a bigger pot, nothing so far on the lillies, my tomatoe plants are growing reasonably well, have a couple of cucumbers however that are going nuts. The banana tree is sprouting new leaves, and the tomatoe trees, have sort of sprouted leaves, but for the most part, they are just growing up.

Also, for all those that want it, this is my salsa recipe,

2 cans whole peeled tomatoes, I usually use the blue cans,2
cans Rotel-with green chiles orignal for mild, hot for hot. blend that together, then add a small mountain of salt, then
a small mountain of garlic powder on top of that, blend again, do this to taste. then add about 15-20 slices of jalapeno pepper, feel free to add some juice if your so inclned, then blend in one habanero for mild, and 2 for hot,
3 will be inedible and you'll feel it in the morning if you try. blend and eat with tortillia chips. and thats it

Starstryker

Tex-mex! Whoo whoo! Thanks. I've really only had CA Mexican food. PJ

Heh, your welcome, that recipe started out as one I got from a
tex mex restaurant, but it has evolved over the years.

Starstryker