Ive followed the advice ive been getting and am not touching them. I have fertilized with chicken/ hollytone in a seed spreader and a spice shaker once every 2-3 weeks and sprayed a systemic with a 3 liter spray can. (Also talking to them trying to convince them to hurry up and grow).
I also found one growing out of a lost batch out of a bag. I am adding it and will document how it does. It is greener yet smaller than any of my other ones which is weirdly irritating.
Everyone has budded again! But the growth on all the beds is very interesting to watch.
The fully untouched ones of bed 1 are following the growth pamphlet I got with the seeds are the thickest caliper at about a pencil to my finger width. They also have sparse branching and are a lot less active in growth. New growth focuses on the base and mostly the top with a lot of room between seedlings. I've also lost about 25 percent of them.
The ones in bed 2 with just 2 buds selected are yellowish green.2/3 a pencil to a pencil of growth. But they have produced almost sucker like low growth and then growth at the top and middle. They are almost as tall as bed 1. I have lost none of them.
Bed 3 and 4 is where I was heavy in the bud selection with the only difference being that 4 I kept removing them all and 3 I removed mostly just the top ones. I don't have any good pictures of 3 as they are a sea of green in between the other beds. I have lost none of these as well.
These 2 beds have apparently grown hard just to spite me and have random back budding. They are at half a pancil to pencil thickness. With light green new growth on the new shoots and the darker color growth on the rest of the plant.
Bed 3 has multiple shoots and is showing dominance where I cut off the buds but about half as much as bed one. Bed 4 has become short and has more buds on the middle and low growth.
3 & 4
I am beginning to sense that 400 of these are a lot of trees...I'm going to need a lot of pots.
