Any time you try to grow a tree with bone meal, even if the tree is not grown, a bone meal is used.
To reproduce:
1. Plant sapling.
2. Restrict tree's ability to grow
3. Use bone meal on sapling
4. Keep trying until you have no more bone meal
5. Be sad
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I think this may be intended. The sapling needs bone meal to grow, but then it can't grow. So, it's like a failed attempt at growing, which should cost the same.
Confirmed. However, if you put 4 Jungle saplings together under some sort of roof or something, because big trees vary in height it may take a few tries to get it to work.
While consuming 1 bone meal each time it doesn't work.
I'd say this is intended.
Can confirm.