Question about Tree Breeding.

[Furious1964]

How long does it take for the fruit to ripen and how do you harvest it?

I have Jungle Trees with Cocoa Beans and nothing dropped when I cut one down but the logs.

 

[Fuzzlewhumper]

Vanilla:
The cocoa beans start off small and green, then ripen slowly (randomly) until they are full size. Breaking them at start size = 1 seed, at full size = 3-4 usually for me. You can place them on any side of a jungle tree and I commonly put down four or five jungle tree logs and put the seeds on all four sides ... then wait.

If your talking about tree breeding with bees and such (cross breeding), then we're getting into a whole nother area of expertise that I'm woefully unable to comment on sadly.

 

[Oatmonster]

If you're talking about forestry trees, the leaves will have small "fruit" textures that gradually get darker over time. IIRC, there is a trait that determines how quickly the fruit mature. Hitting a leaf that can produce fruit with bonemeal will instantly ripen that leaf so that you can see what a mature leaf looks like. If a leaf is mature, it will always drop a fruit.

If you're only farming cocoa beans, it is much easier to just use a vanilla cocoa bean farm. Place the cocoa bean item on a jungle tree log and a small green pod should appear. You can either bonemeal the pod or let it grow naturally until it is large and brown, at which point you can break it for cocoa beans.

 

[Furious1964]

Vanilla:
The cocoa beans start off small and green, then ripen slowly (randomly) until they are full size. Breaking them at start size = 1 seed, at full size = 3-4 usually for me. You can place them on any side of a jungle tree and I commonly put down four or five jungle tree logs and put the seeds on all four sides ... then wait.

If your talking about tree breeding with bees and such (cross breeding), then we're getting into a whole nother area of expertise that I'm woefully unable to comment on sadly.

Yes...yes, I was.[DOUBLEPOST=1371706417][/DOUBLEPOST]Thanks, guys. going to see if the MFR Harvester will work on these new fruit bearing trees.

 

[Oatmonster]

Oh you were talking about forestry trees. In that case, you'll either have to do it manually or use a forestry multifarm set to work as an orchard. MFR harvesters and planters don't work with forestry saplings.

Again, if you are only after cocoa beans, I would suggest using a vanilla cocoa bean farm.

 

[Furious1964]

Bloody hell.

Will I have to pump tons of water through it again?

 

[Omicron]

Not if you set it as a 4x orchard. The water use bug only manifests if you combine "managed" farm types that require irrigation (crop, vegetable, peat bog) with ones that don't (shroom, arboretum, infernal). And orchards are never "managed" in the first place, they are "manual".

 

[Furious1964]

So, I should have one Multifarm Orchard and one Multifarm for Cactus and Cocoa Bean harvesting and I won't get that bug? Have the items that require water run on the MFR farms?

 

[Omicron]

That's an option, yes. The other option is playing on 1.5.2 where the bug has been fixed

 

[Furious1964]

That would be an option...if the 1.5.2 Beta contained RedPower. I put a lot of effort into this world and it would be a pain remaking it again.