Thank you everybody for your replies… Put me at ease a bit! Lol.
I have been looking every day in hopes of seeing a bit of green protruding.
Today I ended up looking back at some of the original posts and saw it was less than two weeks for new buds to emerge.
I scratched a number of the branches… Probably more than I should have… all are green underneath except for the lowest branch in the back which doesn’t hurt my feelings.
My other thought… And this could be just me overthinking but I have only had two trees in my collection die in the past five years and both were in this pot… Perhaps it is cursed or just made with toxic clay.
AnyWho… Thank you again all for your replies. Will keep my fingers crossed.