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It would have been something like 2005 or so. It may have been a known fact at the time, but they mentioned specifically that they were caught by surprise by the phenomenon. I didn’t fault them for it - the whole project was kind of a mess. I’m a biologist and I wasn’t aware of that, so it wouldn’t have occurred to me, either.
That’s weird though. You’d think they would have had multiple botanists on the design team who could have pointed that out.
I'm sure it was just that no one realized it would scale to trees, since that hadn't been done before. As far as I know you don't have to do anything special in that regard with small seed-grown plants in a green house, only cuttings that root from stems, and so have weaker roots at first and stalks that were previously branches. I'm sorry I sounded critical, I was just curious.
Also there's that documentary where the group that organized it was kind of cult adjacent. They weren't scientists first. Still very interesting and impressive they did what they did.