Osage Orange Seedlings

After reading that it made good carving wood, and good firewood, I bought some osage orange seeds from the national auction website. They produce a green orange shaped fruit. Not edible.

Day X+0: No idea when the seeds were planted out. Here they are in the rightmost lowest 10 segmented tray.

Day X+75: And planted out in pots. The broken glass was from a rabbit or hare that must have jumped on the cover pane over night. They are still in the pots now, and look a bit bigger, but have lost leaf for winter.

I've since read an anecdote by someone who attempted to deal with some of these trees. He reported that the thorns made doing anything a painful activity.