Tree growth (problem)

[Barbara]

I did some tree planting yesterday and today I noticed one of the fruits didn't grow. I'm wondering what the issue is and hoped any of you could help me. Here's how the trees are placed:

brown = path
yellow = beach ramp
green = grass/flower
blue = villager house
pink = bush
red = tree
orange = issue tree

The orange tree won't grow, and I don't understand why. The line of trees isn't very long and there are no bushes in between either.
Can any of you help me with this?

 

[Amilee]

unfortunately, you can have random dead spots in your town :c

 

[Acnl_starfall]

Ya when I make orchirds one tree always dies

 

[radioloves]

Hmm maybe it has to be planted in the center of a 3x3, 12 chain rule, can't have too many trees in an area, no more than 15 trees in a 5x5 area, there might be a dead spot in town that just won't grow a tree/trees, maaybe paths got in the way but not likely, if there's any rocks around too close by the tree. It looks to me it should grow and doesn't seem like there's any public work projects, rails, fences, platform interfering it, it might just be that one spot is a dead spot? I'm not sure how to resolve the issue but you could reorganize the trees around and leave the one out and it can be a shortcut when you are doing errands around town? Good luck ~

 

[Barbara]

Thanks for the help, I think I'll cut the two trees next to the spot down and see if that makes this one grow. If not, I suppose it's a dead spot, and if it does, what's the best way to plant the other two around it so that they will all grow?

 

[Red Cat]

I don't think there are any random "dead spots". I think it's that you have too many trees around that tree. I'd chop the ones west and south of it then plant it, and then plant those two back if it works.

 

[Plum Pudding]

I agree wit red cat, there are no dead spots in NL

 

[GTsTentacleChow]

There actually are dead spots where trees won't grow for no reason other than to bug the crap out of you when you're landscaping. My suggestion is to move your trees over one square to surround the dead spot, and so the trees are parallel with the ones across from the path.

I hate it when it does that, though! I'm so sorry it happened to you.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Oh, I missed the ramp. I'm so sorry.

 

[ZetaFunction]

I think the main issue that's preventing it from growing is the fact that there's probably too many trees in one small area. Maybe chop down one of the trees in the area below it? And I'm not too sure about there being dead spots in NL; but I do know bushes/trees sometimes just won't grow and are stubborn.

 

[Chicha]

I'd recommend chopping the tree west & south of the one you're having trouble growing. Plant the orange tree, wait the next day and then plant the west day, wait another day and plant the south tree. I found that growing each tree one at a time greatly helps. It's a little more time consuming but it's less likely you'll get a dead spot. Good luck!

 

[AkaneDeath]

http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/120685/are-there-any-spacing-rules-for-trees

 

[Barbara]

I did actually chop down the two trees next to the orange tree yesterday, but apparently I forgot to save my game... :/ I now chopped down the two trees under it, would that work? Or do I have to chop down one of the trees next to the orange one as well?

 

[Miii]

When I plant trees in rows, I put 3 spaces between each row, and one space between each tree in a row, so it looks like this (x = tree, o = open space). None of my trees die this way :3

x x x x x
o
o
o
x x x x x

However if I put two spaces between each row, or one space between each row, I'll always have at least one tree die.

 

[Barbara]

Update: I removed the two trees below (that weren't of any importance anyway) and the orange tree has now grown! Thanks to everyone who helped me.