Gardening Oddity Using Fertilizer

[Dustytome]

Waiting on another set to pop. Started at 11:50 am yesterday and did a whole crop, but fertilized one once, one twice and one thrice. According to yesterday's data that should have made one of them pop at 10:20, one at 10:30 and one at 10:40. Unfortunately when I logged in at about 9:40 the plants I had fertilized twice and thrice had both already become harvestable. At this point I don't know what to think. Either the the plant fertilization is buggy or it's yet another system in the game hooked up by rng.

edit: Got distracted by my pups for a bit and missed the 1 fertilizer pop, but everything appeared to harvestable by 10:40 so at the very least we know the grow time for Althyk Lavender is 22hr 50m. I should note I don't even bother using fertilizer normally as it just doesn't take enough time off in my opinion, unless you're doing it ritually every hour until the plant pops (we all love watching clocks right?). Seeing the randomness of it while testing makes it even less worth it.