Going in high gear

The dormancy is over. Every day now adds visible changes of sequoia growth.

First of all, the patch has transformed into bright vivid green. Even compared to last week, the brightness of green is superb. This week also heralded the first time when some plants increased their overall height as compared to the last Fall measurements.

The four younger plants didn't show any new additional needle or branch growth. However, they got completely green, looking like they were before winter. 

38 became the fastest growing plan over last few weeks. Although it stands only at 15" it added over 2" in last 10 days. One reason for success was that it sprouted a new branch very close to the top. 

Some of the plants are growing old fashioned dense needles like the example of #34. Some grow very different long needles like the above mentioned #38. Dense needles occur at the bottom of trunks and on the ends of the broad old branches. 

Long needles appear always on top and represent new forming branches. Long needles also appear lighter colored compared to the darker green dense needles growing at the bottom. 

Prev Rank	Name	9/6/2014	5/11/2015	New Rank
1	34	20.5	21.5	1
3	31	18	17.5	2
4	104	17	17	3
5	72	16.5	16.5	4
8	38	12.5	15	5
7	63	14	14.25	6
6	24	14	14	7
9	39	12.5	12.5	8
10	71	12	11.5	9
12	33	10	11.5	10
13	118	10	10	11
14	112	8.5	9.5	12
15	65	8	8.5	13
16	212	5	5	14
17	214	5	5	15
18	213	4	4	16
19	215	4	4	17
2	15	18	4	18
11	CA1	12	2	19
20	218	4	0	20