Tree growing time.

[Chow]

Just curious for the tree farmers out there, how long does it take a tree to grow to cutting size?
I've planted a pallet of trees along the starting field in Westbridge and they seem to take a long time to grow. (I guess it's been almost 2 game days and they are still saplings).

[Tibbs]

In the same boat, looking at the discussions it's a few days depending on what clothes the pope is wearing. So basically, hurry up and wait?

[Roaringsilence]

From my own testing Trees have Growth states of 3, 5, 8 and 10 days. After 10 days they are ready for harvest.

[Tibbs]

Are there different stages of trees? I just came back to my log landing and noticed the saplings turned into some what trees. What's the normal height of fully grown trees?

[Jack Bourbon]

Atleast wait till they get to the next stage. I found so far to be two stages of grow that I seen. Sapling, Samller size then taller after that. If you cut them down at the first growth then I only got about 1,000 per tree. Waiting till next growth I was getting about 50k$ for three trees (I cut three at a time fits in carrier that connects to tractors). I have not seen another growth yet, but I got 140 trees planted so maybe I will see something before cutting them all down. Takes time to do, but can be worth it.

Originally posted by CapnTibbz:

Are there different stages of trees? I just came back to my log landing and noticed the saplings turned into some what trees. What's the normal height of fully grown trees?

[KayDawg13]

I saw on a different discussion that it's 11 days. it has only been a few days in game for me and they just went from the saplings to small trees, so I have no first hand knowledge yet.

[Jonny]

Is it not just easier buying a placeable tree at a cost of £7,000 and getting around £40,000 return on it? no need for it to grow just cut and sell etc

[Chow]

I am not aware of these placeable trees you speak of, I will look for them with diligence. While I wait for my trees to grow.

[BlackTigerNL]

Buying allready grown trees feels like cheating to me. I only cut trees allready on the map, and trees i planted. Exept if it's a tree for decoration, then i buy one.....

[Jack Bourbon]

Its more fun growing them yourself ;) I did see a third stage growth on my earlier trees, but did not seem much of a difference. Saplings only cost $40 for 20, much more of a profit margin for waiting, while waiting you can do other farming needs. I did a lot of120x speed to get crops to grow so that speeds it up a bit.

If you are going to do a lot of tree chopping then get a couple of fields and keep trees planted. I used field 38 that you start with and planeted about ~200 trees there. So many trees So little time.

[Jack Bourbon]

I wish I kept track of how many days it was taking, but did not think of it at the time. I am not sure how many days have passed.

[Warondar]

You can always get the Time Acceleration mod, which works much faster than the in game one. As for trees growing timeframe, just find yourself lucky it only 3-10 days in game. hehe
I've seen Silviculture Prescriptions by Foresters suggesting anywhere from 40yrs to 125yrs depending on the tree species and location.
So I'm more than content waiting only 3-10 days in game. hehe

[Iommonaut]

Originally posted by Warondar:

You can always get the Time Acceleration mod, which works much faster than the in game one. As for trees growing timeframe, just find yourself lucky it only 3-10 days in game. hehe
I've seen Silviculture Prescriptions by Foresters suggesting anywhere from 40yrs to 125yrs depending on the tree species and location.
So I'm more than content waiting only 3-10 days in game. hehe

forest rotation is usually 8-20 years so if you consider that 1 day in FS is 1 year it's sort of accurate

[Warondar]

8-20yrs...must be down south somewhere I imagine? As a Forest Officer, I haven't seen any 8-20yrs rotations in Ontario or British Columbia, Canada. Unless you're talking about selective logging where you can have logging happening every 5-10yrs to grab a few trees as prescribed. For clearcutting though, we don't see any re-entry of anykind until much later. And quite frankly, on some higher elevation cutblocks near alpine which I monitored, I had a really hard time believing that any trees would grow back period, even though the prescriptions said 80yrs. The only thing left after the logging was rocks/boulders and stumps. No viable substrate left anywhere for a seedling to grow.

[Iommonaut]

yes I was talking about the selective logging

[Spoken Word]

im only cutting trees i planted :) feels a little less cheaty that way. I make my own rules hehe