Dying Perfect Fruit Trees

[Mairen]

Hi guys! Mairen has a problem in her town regarding perfect fruit trees dying.

I chose a place to start my perfect fruit orchard and planted them. This is in the upper right corner of my map. I planted three rows of trees. The trees in the top row were fine, and the trees in the bottom row were fine, but the trees in the middle row wilted and died. I super triple checked that they were all at least one space away from each other (there was actually 2 spaces), so I can claim with 99% certainty that it's not a space issue. (there's always that 1% I suppose, but just so unlikely. I understand that trees need 1 ring of space around them, and was so careful about this.)

I've heard of these so called "dead spots" in town, but I didn't imagine it would be a huge area like an entire row of trees (three trees to be exact!). Is this it?

Otherwise, any other information to share about this? Is there a limit to the number of perfect fruit trees you can plant? What are your ideas?

 

[Hypno KK]

It could be a dead spot. They're random, so it's possible that yours combined made up a larger area than otherwise. I'm not sure if there's a limit on how many perfect fruit trees you can plant per day, so maybe you could try again if you have fruit trees to spare.

Are they native fruit trees? If you tried to plant non-native perfect fruit, it won't work.

 

[LambdaDelta]

pretty sure dead spots are a myth

the trees are probably just dying due to other stuff around it blocking the space it needs to grow

 

[mdchan]

pretty sure dead spots are a myth

the trees are probably just dying due to other stuff around it blocking the space it needs to grow

Dead spots most certainly are not myths. I planted a tree in a wide open area with nothing around it to block it, and it still died.

 

[Mairen]

LaserBeams, they are perfect fruit that's native to my town.

Mdchan, if it was a cedar tree, those will die if they are planted too far south. Just a thought!

 

[Jovi]

I know there is no limit of how many perfect trees can be planted. My cycle town had about 40 perfect fruit trees cause I was bored while cycling, haha. I do know that trees do have limits to them, like only 12 can be connected in a row and the 13th will die. And I believe there is still a limit of tree/bushes per acre in New Leaf, but I'm not sure about that.

And Dead Spots are 100% not a myth, they exist. I've had a spot where I couldn't plant a flower. The game told me there was no more room for things to be planted, it was in an open field where I planed to breed hybrids. Tried to plant a tree to see if it was a dead spot and the tree instantly died once planted. Now a PWP sits on that spot, haha.

 

[LambdaDelta]

I've planted flowers on literally every spot in my town that a flower *could* feasibly be planted on

I challenge your dead spots not being a myth claim

 

[Jovi]

I've planted flowers on literally every spot in my town that a flower *could* feasibly be planted on

I challenge your dead spots not being a myth claim

Not every town has a dead spot, and the chance of it being cover by a villagers house, you own house, a PWP or anything else that is non flora is there. Just because you haven't seen one doesn't mean they don't exist for other people. I used to think they were just a myth as well, until I found one after resetting my town.

 

[snowblizzard24]

It's not really a dead spot, the reason why it can't grow in the middle is because that tree doesn't have space to grow when the others are basically blocking out its "sunlight". For my cherry orchard, I had to find that out the hard way. I planted so many, but only the outer edges didn't wilt, which meant I wasted a lot of perfect cherries T-T
However, after I found out, I instead plant only two rows each day so that each side would have the chance to grow first and then later add two more rows until all of the spots are filled. It works, you can check out my town if you don't believe me.

In diagram form: x=trees, -=space
(This is just my exact way that I planted my trees and everything turned out perfect, so you could always try that before giving up on that area )
Day 1.
x-x-x-x-x-x
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x-x-x-x-x-x
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Day 2.
x-x-x-x-x-x
-------------
x-x-x-x-x-x

There are most certainly dead spots like the obvious ones next to rivers, buildings, and such. However, you need to just know how to work around the ones that could potentially be dead spots.

For example, the ones with cedar trees, if they are on the southern half of your town, those will be dead spots for the cedar saplings only. This is the same with coconut and banana trees that only grow on beaches.
Another one would be with rows of bushes or rows of bushes and trees, if you have more than 12 that are connected, then the dead spot would be the 13th bush/tree that is connected to that bunch.
Those two dead spots can't be helped, it's just part of the game's mechanics.
However, the other "dead spot" is what you have where you're not allowing the inside trees to grow. This one can be fixed. These trees essentially just need their own sunlight and space to grow first before you add a third row of trees.

Wrong way to plant: this was what happened to me when I first planted my orchard
x=tree, d=died/wilted, -=space
x-x-x
------
x-d-x
------
x-x-x <----don't plant yet

Just don't plant that third row (if you're doing more than a 3x3 bunch of trees), or dont plant the one edge and all of them should be able to grow and you can add that last one row or edge the next day Hope this helps.

 

[stitchmaker]

In my harvest town I have 300 plus trees. I have a tent on the right top side. Below the tent I started planting trees down the right side of town and went all down to the bottom of town. Planted rows of three until I reached a villagers house. Than went to just one tree. Passed the villagers house and than did two rows all the way down. All the trees were fine.

I planted a lot of perfect fruit on the first day and had no problems. Visitors gave them to me in another town.

For places that I wasn't sure would work I used regular trees. Tested it and had a few spots that didn't take. I had alot of sampling from all the players buying them for the golden axe.

 

[Hypno KK]

I'd like to note that when I mentioned a limit in my post, I didn't mean per town, but per day. I don't know if you can plant unlimited perfect fruit trees per day, but when I started playing, I planted several in one day and they were fine.

The sunlight thing that snowblizzard24 talked about makes sense to me.

I've planted flowers on literally every spot in my town that a flower *could* feasibly be planted on

I challenge your dead spots not being a myth claim

They could be hidden under houses or PWPs, or you could just have been lucky. I'm not sure that dead spots even apply to flowers, since I've only seen them be discussed about trees. Flowers seem to be less picky than trees, you don't even have a limit on how far they have to be from buildings, rocks, or ponds.

 

[Tinkalila]

yeah, a dead spot could possibly be 3 trees wide. i have one in the middle of my orchard that is almost that big.

 

[kasane]

the trees are probably just dying due to other stuff around it blocking the space it needs to grow

I planted tons of Perfect Pear trees in a row, and there is one spot where it couldn't grow. It was in the middle of the Perfect Pear Trees as well. Absolutely nothing was blocking the spaces, and the adjacent Perfect Pear Trees were able to grow

 

[Lion-Lhasa]

From what I've heard NL still has an 'acre' system that WW (and maybe other games) had.
Too many trees in the acre will cause some to die.