Possible to instance a geo that contains instanced geos?

Hello,

I am trying to instance a geometry that itself is instanced. To explain it in another way, I am using instancing to create my core piece of geometry. Now, I want to take that geometry and use instancing on that as well.

What I thought might work was putting my instanced geometry inside a geometry contain and then instancing the container. The instancing on the parent geo does not appear to have any effect. I am a bit confused. In the other example in my example file I put 2 geometries inside a geo and then can instance that parent geo. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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I got an answer for this on the Facebook help group. Was linked to a post from a couple years back. I think Matthews answer around using CHOPs to do all the instancing is on the right track.

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