Create forest?

[Freaken Out]

i attempted to search but to much on trees farms and all that.

If i was to hoe and plant a few trees, will it eventually start growing others? eventually creating a forest.

[Rathelm]

The game seems to put forests where forests are sustainable already. Most likely what would happen is you'd plant the seed and the tree would die because it's not a suitable region for the tree.

[Freaken Out]

i'm curious really if i was to remove say, Cedar, and plant a few if it'll slowly regrow that forest back. or will saplings just auto grow over time without me planting?

[fractalgem]

If you actually wipe out the trees in an area, then replant one, it will eventually spread on its own.

Be warned that some trees, like oaks, take an entire week to grow under default settings and ideal conditions.

If you're trying to plant for wood purposes, something like palm trees will be your friend as it won't overcrowd as horribly.

I recommend considering upping growth speed anyways, because a week is a LONG time to get fully grown (and even faster trees take 4.5 DAYS to grow)

[Other]

If you are planting a tree that can grow in the area, it will probably survive. I find that planting trees is almost unnecessary as long as you completely clear out the stumps and wood debris - if that is done, you get natural saplings pretty fast, which then grow at the usual rate. I should note that I also tend to clear most of the non-edible shrubs, especially salal, so my experience is with saplings growing on empty tiles, not with them needing to replace something else. Of course, felling a tree is a pretty good way to clear out the ground clutter just on its own, so it may not make that much difference.

The only times I've use the ability to plant trees is where an area supports more than one species, but I only want one of them, or where I want to optimise the distance & spacing to get a few more trees into a small area.

[Zalzany]

Yes if its the right biome like tropical rain forset trees growin in the plains way harder to do unless you mess with soil stuff and even then still think no. But if you cut down one oak an plant 3 more depending on each spots soil quality wich you can't see with out special tools should grow back if not make a note and don't plant that exact tile.

Every time I play this first thing I do is replace every tree I cut and plant a ton in my border that grow at a decent rate on that biome for later use. In case a neighbor comes in and clear cuts the area, and doesn't replant like a total jerk.

I do a grid near my house with 2 space gaps most the time they take, ones who don't well I take a road tool and flatten it so I know don't plant there :P

[fractalgem]

Originally posted by Zalzany:

Yes if its the right biome like tropical rain forset trees growin in the plains way harder to do unless you mess with soil stuff and even then still think no. But if you cut down one oak an plant 3 more depending on each spots soil quality wich you can't see with out special tools should grow back if not make a note and don't plant that exact tile.

Every time I play this first thing I do is replace every tree I cut and plant a ton in my border that grow at a decent rate on that biome for later use. In case a neighbor comes in and clear cuts the area, and doesn't replant like a total jerk.

I do a grid near my house with 2 space gaps most the time they take, ones who don't well I take a road tool and flatten it so I know don't plant there :P

You can look at yield potential on map layers to see what will grow fine without the tool.