Has anyone got into the Tree Breeding let? If so what are some of the ways to get new breeds of Trees? Which aare the bees that work better for breeding? Main goal is Ebony wood and the Sequoia Wood.
Forestry Tree Breeding.
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@Greytusks - just automate some bees, they may be even starting one and let them run for a while. If you don't want to get rural, industrious have also very good pollination, fast vs rural faster.
For sequoia try starting with spruce and oak and then breed this line a bit, IIRC there are 2 other trees before sequoia.
For sequoia try starting with spruce and oak and then breed this line a bit, IIRC there are 2 other trees before sequoia.
Oak and Spruce? Ok well try that. Do they have to be in any biome to grow/cross breed?
Hrmm. The logistics of intentionally breeding a trait from one species into another could be... difficult. Or not, I'm not really certain. Might be a simple matter of stripping the species you want to breed a trait into of leaves, one graft at a time, until you find a sapling with the proper mix.
Biome doesn't seem to play much of a difference, I got to sequoia in Jungle, which isn't normal biome for line starting with spruce and oak. Traits seem to be possible, but I haven't played with it much, I got a lot of crossbreeds, but I just lava'd them. Main difference between bee and tree breeding is that in trees you only get full mutation, e.g. from spruce and oak you will get either spruce-oak hybrid or pure mundane larch. In older versions of forestry you could use sickle on leaves, but after 2.0 you won't get any drops using it, but water streams and logger work great for saplings/fruits. Small subjective observation - leaves mutate faster when you aren't looking at them 
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.I got a Mundane Larch sapling. What trees should that be bred with?Biome doesn't seem to play much of a difference, I got to sequoia in Jungle, which isn't normal biome for line starting with spruce and oak. Traits seem to be possible, but I haven't played with it much, I got a lot of crossbreeds, but I just lava'd them. Main difference between bee and tree breeding is that in trees you only get full mutation, e.g. from spruce and oak you will get either spruce-oak hybrid or pure mundane larch. In older versions of forestry you could use sickle on leaves, but after 2.0 you won't get any drops using it, but water streams and logger work great for saplings/fruits. Small subjective observation - leaves mutate faster when you aren't looking at them
Spruce.
If you want the complete tree combo list look at a thread I made where I wrote out all of the combos.
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/tree-breeding-spoilers.7869/
No idea. It really depends on if Steve's cart works with them. Ive noticed some mod saplings don't play well outside their mods. Like XLBiomes saplings have issues with fermenter.