blue spruce seedlings

blue spruce seedlings. hundreds? cold stratified for one month then planted into this pot in the greenhouse, here they're about 4-6 weeks from germinating. should you plant them like this, well you can if you're going to carefully pull them apart and plant then into pots or plug trays and baby them for a while to get over the transplant shock or stress, for sure keeping them in this pot isn't enough room so it's a method I use to just get the seed going and transplant when I have more room to spread out in the summer. spruce I find are tougher or more resilient about transplanting than pine, often spruce transplant with some root disturbance fine where the same treatment wouldn't work for pine, so I would suggest sowing right into the pots or plug trays with those. these guys, it's more than I need so I'll figure it out, often I do plugs then plant into pots or a bed for two years (p+2) and then they're big enough to go into the field.