Yeah, that's a solid point from @kellyl32 about wood stress.

My uncle used to point out fossilized ripple marks on slabs of flagstone and I just saw them as weird texture. It took a park ranger explaining it for me to realize I was looking at the exact pattern from a beach, just turned to stone. That kind of shift in seeing things is pretty wild. It makes you wonder what else we're all walking past every day without really seeing it.

Hey kai602, but that trust is priceless.

I read that some plants really like being root bound.

You ever think that's the best way to learn?