I was being a bit snarky, but this is common practice. They could easily claim "100k" seeds, but full well knowing that only 10k will actually grow. But saying

I was being a bit snarky, but this is common practice. They could easily claim "100k" seeds, but full well knowing that only 10k will actually grow. But saying "we can grow 10k trees" just doesn't sound as impressive. It seems to be marketing numbers.