Bay Tree Question

[NewWestGardener]

I started my "tree" from a cutting. Now it stands a grand 3 inches tall, fashioning two sets of leaves.

It took a whole year to root and grow the new pair of leaves. Rooting hormone was used. The cutting just sat there, in between the stage of neither dead (leaves stays green) or alive (no new growth) for the longest time for anything I tried to root.

So there, it surely tests patience.