I very much am aligned with your thought processes. The only problem I see there is that when one is growing a tree, the knowledge of how to proceed, or whether it even is a tree, is well known. In cryptosphere one could be thinking that he is doing very deep nurturing of a tree, just to find out that the whole process was a wrong one, or that the tree was flawed and bound to perish.
From such a failure experience and knowledge is born, which is a good thing, if the error didn’t cost way too much.
I think that the very important thing to do is to constantly keep double-checking, whether the seed we are nurturing is truly the plant we want to grow, or the weed we actually want to get rid of...
in meantime I keep meditating:)