Thank you. They really do grow like weeds. I got them later in the year after the leaves hardened, so I left them in the same pot they came in which made sense at the time as they were maybe 15 inches tall.
They sat out next to some 1g trident (maybe 24 inches from evergreen that I had in Anderson flats on a cutting board.
The RI Reds exploded with growth. Each one had whips as high as 6 feet, easily outpacing my tridents which had a better grow media.
I have them in flats, screwed into cutting boards now. I notice 99 percent of the ones I have seen have that super straight tall trunk which I can totally see happening since they grow so coarse.
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These two have a first branch around 4 inches up. I think I am going to start there and do a series of chops.