Orchard question

[Cottonball]

One of my trees in the middle of one of the rows wont grow!
I've tried 2 times and I don't know why it wont work. Its in a row of 3x4 and its the 2nd row 3rd tree.

 

[shannenenen]

Sometimes if you have a lot of trees that were planted around the same time, there will be some that won't grow. The only method I've seen to combat this is to chop down ALL of your current trees and plant them one at a time, one per day. I had to do this with some bushes in my last town. You may even want to wait for your last tree to be fully grown before you plant the next one, but I don't remember whether or not I had to do that or not.

 

[Cottonball]

Sometimes if you have a lot of trees that were planted around the same time, there will be some that won't grow. The only method I've seen to combat this is to chop down ALL of your current trees and plant them one at a time, one per day. I had to do this with some bushes in my last town. You may even want to wait for your last tree to be fully grown before you plant the next one, but I don't remember whether or not I had to do that or not.

Oh damn okay thanks!

 

[ThatRandomMayor]

I think you just need to chop down that row of trees, so the sapling isn't completely crowded, and then replant trees one at at time, day after day. Same thing goes with bushes.

 

[ButterflyWings]

Ah, glad I'm not the only one with this problem. Thanks for posting...it helped me too!

 

[applecarts]

The Animal Crossing wikia has a nicely worded paragraph on this page about tree placement in relation to successful growth:

"Trees must be planted in the center of a 3x3 square of land that does not contain any other tree saplings or impassable objects, with the exception of bushes. Trees will also fail to grow if there are already too many saplings and trees in the vicinity. Trees that fail to grow become wilted saplings the next day, which then disappear the day after."

Trees can't be in the shadows of buildings, on cliffs (I'm fairly sure), or next to any part of the outer limits of town.

Also relevant: I had forgotten the rules for planting trees and planted an apple orchard but the next day all I got was a graveyard. Very tragic ;^;

 

[Cottonball]

The Animal Crossing wikia has a nicely worded paragraph on this page about tree placement in relation to successful growth:

"Trees must be planted in the center of a 3x3 square of land that does not contain any other tree saplings or impassable objects, with the exception of bushes. Trees will also fail to grow if there are already too many saplings and trees in the vicinity. Trees that fail to grow become wilted saplings the next day, which then disappear the day after."

Trees can't be in the shadows of buildings, on cliffs (I'm fairly sure), or next to any part of the outer limits of town.

Also relevant: I had forgotten the rules for planting trees and planted an apple orchard but the next day all I got was a graveyard. Very tragic ;^;

I hate when that happens!!!