“One has less than a half inch between leaf nodes, another almost 2.”
I wonder if the seedling with narrow spacing might be a natural dwarf? Might be a good candidate for a rootstock.
Yeah, I’m hoping they’ll sprout next year, if they don’t sprout this year. Or at least the year after that, if they don’t sprout next year! 
I thiiiiiiiiink I know what I did wrong. I figured I’d plant winter crops in with the stratifying seeds, so the bed would be doing something over the winter, and there’d be mulch already in place in late spring. I put in winter wheat, peas, and blue mustard. I figured they’d make a nice polyculture. However, only the wheat came up, even though peas and blue mustard usually do great for me. This made me highly suspicious, so I checked online, and . . . yyyyyyyyep! Wheat has allelopathic properties! 
So the wheat is probably to blame for why none of the tree seeds have sprouted. I really should have thought to double check, but . . . sometimes you learn lessons the hard way! 
So . . . next time, I should clearly just put peas and blue mustard (and common mallow, and lettuce, and mache, and whatever other winter crops I want to grow at the moment) into the bed with the stratifying seeds. Winter wheat did great for me this year, so it’s clearly climate suitable, but if it’s gonna be a jerk to all the other plants around it, it won’t work in a polyculture, so it’ll have to go somewhere all on its own.
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