I remember I had a neighbor. Instead of opening the gate he climbed over it.
Not on the hinge side. He was real heavy set.
Marching up to me in the corral he requested I breed his mares.
I explained to him my mule was castrated.
And if if intact would be sterile.
Before I bought an adjacent piece of ground I didn’t have my property survey:
Turns out the fence was way off.
I been letting whoppers pass ….. turns out they were on my land!
This was about 5 years long!
It would be a cool experiment to plant seedlings of similar species next to the bagged trees and document growth over the years.
I would postulate the seedlings would surpass them in growth in under 10 years.