With the winter moving slowly but surely to its end, most older trees are doing fine and the newborn trees are doing even better. So better in fact, that I don't recall such a vigorous growth in the previous years. A pattern emerged where the seeds that germinated earlier at the beginning of December are on average weaker than the ones the germinated later by the end of December:
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| 2016/17 crop. Planting started top left at the beginning of Dec 2016. Left half was filled moving right and down. From mid Dec 2016 right half was filled starting with top in the middle and moving down and right to the lower right corner. Orange circles indicate sequoias that reached approximately the diameter of the container as of Jan 29, 2017 |
Blue arrows on the picture above roughy show the order of the container filling. The orange circles indicate largest samples, those that by today reached about the diameter of the containers in which they are planted. It is clear from this picture that orange circles are about twice as numerous on the right than on the left. So far I do not see a correlation between 2013/2016 seeds and rate of growth. There is about equal number of both on the right side, while practically all on the left are from 2013. 2016 did germinate later than 2013 but once germinated there is no apparent preference for which would grow faster.
The strongest one is #394:
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| #394 on January 29, 2017 |
Norway spruce continues to be moved to the larger containers. Doug-fir continues strong growth as well:
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| Norway spruce front, doug-fir top-middle, sequoias upper left. January 29, 2017 |
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| Norway spruce replanting, 4 inch (10 cm) root. January 29, 2017 |
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