Upon joining a server Bonsai trees seems to spend a total of 12 seconds loading ..recipes?

Enigmatica 5 join profiling Snapshot

That seems like a ridiculous amount of time to spent while the player is joining a server.

BonsaiTrees-2.1.2.6.jar

Sorry, I'm personally not supporting any versions below the upcoming 1.18.1 version.
Maybe someone else wants to pick things up for older versions - I simply don't have the time.