Can someone tell me why my trees aren't growing?

[Kattea]

I planted all these fruit at the same time. All but the two in the middle are growing. Any idea why?

 

[tajikey]

My guess is too many in the same square on your map. I had the same problem when I tried to grow 16 in a square...I believe 4 didn't grow at all.

 

[sleepydreepy]

Thats so strange! This use to happen to me a lot with bushes and trees in New Leaf because there was a limit on how many bushes you could have in a row and how many trees you could have in a certain area. I didn't know NH had similar rules, if this is indeed connected. Or who knows, maybe its just another bug

 

[Bethboj]

My guess is too many in the same square on your map. I had the same problem when I tried to grow 16 in a square...I believe 4 didn't grow at all.

Are you able to just pick up a grown tree and plonk it down in the same square though? I have a fruit orchard area which is just a butt load of fruit trees thrown on a hill, but I didn’t grow them, I just placed them up there. I’m not home to check the grid on my map but I’m so sure there’s gotta be more than 12 in one square

 

[Hobowire]

To close to another tree

 

[Fye]

I planted all these fruit at the same time. All but the two in the middle are growing. Any idea why?

yup, you can't grow that many trees in one area at the same time. But you can move half of them to another location, let them fully grow, them bring them back! That's what I had to do to make my forest

 

[Le Ham]

I have an orchard where I just have rows on rows of trees, and the way I remember doing it was growing them in a line starting from one end going to the other. Otherwise I'd always find that some trees in the middle of the row or surrounded by other trees would either not grow or stop growing partway (same with bamboo). But if that turns out to not be true then yeah take them out, grow them somewhere else and plant them back

 

[th8827]

They might be too close together. Just move them, let them grow, then move them back.

 

[Mikaiah]

trees won't grow if they're placed too close to another tree, cliff, or body of water.

 

[Kattea]

Thanks everyone, I never thought to grow them somewhere else then bring them back! Super helpful!

 

[lulu9956]

I just had this same problem today, and moving them to let them grow then putting them back worked perfectly