Saplings: My saplings do no grow into trees!

[Cpt. Uriel]

I have waited several days and nights not sleeping and my saplings have not turned into trees. What am I doing wrong???

[CharlieC]

Are they planted in grass or dirt? Are there other trees nearby? They cannot grow everywhere. Have not kept track of proper growing conditions, but there are wiki's on this.

[Cpt. Uriel]

The saplings are planted on grass. Other saplings are 3 blocks away. The biome is grasslands.

[s.sayne]

Don't forget to put water close by, maximum one block away, i believe it is. You can always check if it can grow.

[Shiva Vyre]

Moved to Tips & Strategies:

Don't forget about the wonderful wiki!
https://creativerse.fandom.com/wiki/Sapling

Let us know if you don't find the info you are seeking

[spared_life]

A couple quick checks.

When look at the saplings make sure they are not "fallow"

If not fallow then:

Close Creativerse and restart, preferably teleport away first. Don't teleport back until you restart the game.

[Cpt. Uriel]

Thank you all! I have placed water next to each sapling...lets see what happens!

[Fatedson]

also worthy of note Trees take 24 hours Real Time to grow max ( about 18 hours Real Time if they are fertilized ) no amount of sleeping in game will speed this process

[SmirreBumBum]

the wiki is outdated you can grow all trees in the same biome even on top of eachother or simply in the air . and the trees even make flowers and honey and vines . while the wiki states they won't . max trees you can stack is 4 . anything above that and it gets too cold to grow them .not even torches will help 4 levels up . i even grow food on trees .

[Arokthis]

I'm going to assume you are growing trees for the wood.

I made a simple farm by encasing a space 3 blocks high with stone, filling it with mineral water, and putting a layer of dirt on top. (top to bottom is dirt, MW, MW, stone)

This allows for growing anything and everything without worrying about being close enough to water. Plow as needed for vegetables and mushrooms.

Just don't gloveslam anywhere near it. The water evaporates and may not come back, rendering some parts of the dirt unusable.

I'll make a blueprint if you want.

[Eveaustria]

Originally posted by WRUFF WRUFF:

the wiki is outdated you can grow all trees in the same biome even on top of eachother or simply in the air . and the trees even make flowers and honey and vines . while the wiki states they won't . max trees you can stack is 4 . anything above that and it gets too cold to grow them .not even torches will help 4 levels up . i even grow food on trees .

Yep, the Wiki is still partly outdated, but the Sapling article is still pretty up-to-date. It does not state any wrong facts. If you test stuff properly and see that an article needs to be corrected, then please do so!

The Wiki already mentions that you can grow trees on top of each other!

If you only grow small trees (some call them "mushroom trees" or "lollipop trees") on biomes on the sea level, then 4 or even more can be "stacked", but please note that not all biomes are on sea level, and you can grow taller trees too by placing several Saplings close together (this doesn't work reliably though, might be related to chunk borders, needs more testing).

However, it's not true that you can make trees grow in any biome or in "the same biome". You can test this easily. There are some spots in Swamplands where you can grow Saplings into trees, while Saplings will stay fallow in most other areas in the same Swampland biome. Often, Saplings will stay fallow close to the borders next to other biomes but not further away or the other way round.

* If Saplings are fallow, they will not grow no matter what.
* Please note that Saplings need enough free space above them in order to grow, even if they aren't fallow
* It's still debated if Saplings really "need sunlight" in order to grow. But since they will only reliably grow on the surface with enough free space above them, this might be the main reason why you can't grow Saplings underground.

[SmirreBumBum]

Originally posted by Arokthis:

I'm going to assume you are growing trees for the wood.

I made a simple farm by encasing a space 3 blocks high with stone, filling it with mineral water, and putting a layer of dirt on top. (top to bottom is dirt, MW, MW, stone)

This allows for growing anything and everything without worrying about being close enough to water. Plow as needed for vegetables and mushrooms.

Just don't gloveslam anywhere near it. The water evaporates and may not come back, rendering some parts of the dirt unusable.

I'll make a blueprint if you want.

actually no i just grew alot of them to actually teach myself how to do it . now that i know .i am no longer interessted in growing them . oh wait i have not tried growing a corrupted tree yet . do they have saplings too ? i go see . EDIT. bummer no saplings in corrupted leaves . Hmmmm growing saplings underground ? that is going on my experiment list for sure . thanks Eveaustria ( to the stalactite layer for the grow a cragwood tree experiment ) :) EDIT : Experiment Failed :) still a nice one

[entuland]

We only have three saplings as of now:
- cragwood
- ashenwood
- elderwood

All you need for them to grow is a proper substrate (dirt with water nearby do just fine) and no blocks whatsoever above it all the way up to top of the sky.

Actually, I just tested it, and a single block in the same column placed up in the sky may not affect the sapling. Probably even a few more blocks around up in the sky will not cast any sensible shadown to make the sapling go fallow.

I can't recall whether the high temperature at the lava layer or the cold at high altitudes will make the sapling go fallow.

One thing I know for sure, I have seen players grow saplings down at the corruption layer by piercing 1-block shafts through the terrain all the way down from surface to the sapling.

[entuland]

Done some more testing, as pointed out previously here by other posters, even just grass will do.

Dug a shaft all the way down to corruption from grassland, dug a 7x7x7 area to the End of the World, put a single Grass unit at the bottom-center, put a sapling on top of it, and it's not fallow. Should work.