Forestry Mod Help?

[Hillbill159]

So.
I'm trying to breed trees. As I want a portion-able amount of apples.

So I obtained some "Apple Oak Saplings". Planted them, and grew them. Then I placed two spruce trees near them.

I also have two Apiarys with Meadow queens in them.
I've given the trees a fair amount of time, but I haven't gotten a single apple leaf .-.
Am I doing something wrong?

Also the bees are just straight up normal bees. Nothing done to them.

 

[Omicron]

Just the basic meadow queens are very very slow at pollinating. Try having more of them work, or breed a bee species with a higher pollinating trait. Last time I tried it, I had to go through about 8-10 generations of meadow bees before I received my first crossbred leaf.

More trees in the vicinity might also help, just by virtue of there being more leaves to randomly hit.

 

[MonthOLDpickle]

Apple saplings don't produce much apples?

 

[Omicron]

Frankly, I have no idea what your statement has to do with this thread...

 

[MonthOLDpickle]

Well he has Apple saplings so he is trying to cross breed into some other type of Apple tree?

 

[Hillbill159]

Well he has Apple saplings so he is trying to cross breed into some other type of Apple tree?

To some extent. But I also had no luck at getting normal "apple saplings" to produce apples. I've never been a huge bees person in FTB.
But when I used normal apple trees I never got anything, and i wasn't sure how to make the apples grow.

 

[Omicron]

Forestry's apple okas have a 5x higher chance than vanilla oaks to drop apples from decaying leaves. But since they are just vanilla oaks run through a treealyzer, they don't look or work like other Forestry fruit trees (where you see the fruit maturing in the leaves). You can easily see this if you compare the apple output of a managed arboretum multifarm to what you get from other kinds of automatic farms chopping the same number of trees.

Using apple oaks in a manual orchard multifarm (vanilla oaks won't work) should still produce apples without chopping down trees, just like using any other fruit tree.

However, you can still improve apple yield by treebreeding, and get the apples to show up in the leaves too, as shown here: http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/behold-super-apples-might-not-want-to-eat.20053/

 

[Hillbill159]

Forestry's apple okas have a 5x higher chance than vanilla oaks to drop apples from decaying leaves. But since they are just vanilla oaks run through a treealyzer, they don't look or work like other Forestry fruit trees (where you see the fruit maturing in the leaves). You can easily see this if you compare the apple output of a managed arboretum multifarm to what you get from other kinds of automatic farms chopping the same number of trees.

Using apple oaks in a manual orchard multifarm (vanilla oaks won't work) should still produce apples without chopping down trees, just like using any other fruit tree.

However, you can still improve apple yield by treebreeding, and get the apples to show up in the leaves too, as shown here: http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/behold-super-apples-might-not-want-to-eat.20053/

Okay so a question. I made a sweet chestnut tree.
Nice good sized one, now if I put this near my apple oaks, and apiarys etc, does it have a chance of inter-breeding?

 

[Omicron]

Yep.

 

[MonthOLDpickle]

Forestry's apple okas have a 5x higher chance than vanilla oaks to drop apples from decaying leaves. But since they are just vanilla oaks run through a treealyzer, they don't look or work like other Forestry fruit trees (where you see the fruit maturing in the leaves). You can easily see this if you compare the apple output of a managed arboretum multifarm to what you get from other kinds of automatic farms chopping the same number of trees.

Using apple oaks in a manual orchard multifarm (vanilla oaks won't work) should still produce apples without chopping down trees, just like using any other fruit tree.

However, you can still improve apple yield by treebreeding, and get the apples to show up in the leaves too, as shown here: http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/behold-super-apples-might-not-want-to-eat.20053/

What would you crossbreed with an apple oak to this improved apple yield?

 

[MilConDoin]

What would you crossbreed with an apple oak to this improved apple yield?

Cherry, Walnut and Chestnut have the highest yield in Forestry 2.0.0.11.