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These are the 15/16ths American chestnuts that are highly blight resistant. In February I planted two of the nuts in my yard and placed 5' tree shelter tubes over them.
The other 5 I planted in white 5 gal buckets filled with same soil. The buckets receive same amount of sunlight and water.
In late March two sprouts emerged in the buckets and at same time the two in yard sprouted in the tubes. Since then the two sprouts in yard have grown at least twice as fast as the two in the buckets and none of the other three seeds in the buckets have sprouted.
Am I making a mistake with these buckets? Should I go ahead and transplant now? I was planning on planting the five trees in buckets next year at our hunting land.
Here is what the trees in tubes look like now.