On the same fruit, the Divine-Given Seed's seed seized all the nutrients, causing the other seeds to wither away. Lacking the corresponding pheromone stimulation, the fruit pulp didn't develop either, so the kiwifruit nurturing the Divine-Given Seed turned out a bit deformed.
On the same kiwifruit tree, there were other flowers that successfully pollinated and bore fruit, competing with the mother plant for nutrients, so the deformed fruit carrying the Divine-Given Seed had poor growth and its ripening was greatly delayed.
After Blue Catalpa and Snakebark Maple discovered this, they immediately picked off the other fruits, cut away unnecessary secondary and tertiary vines, cleared the weeds, and irrigated with extra fertilizer.
After more than ten days, the state of the fruit improved somewhat.
But they'd discovered it too late; it probably wasn't enough.
Ink Orchid stayed behind, together with Blue Catalpa and Snakebark Maple, keeping watch beneath the Green-Red Kiwifruit Tree.
