Farmville Orchard Tips: Step-up Production of New English Countryside Trees

For those of us who were well on your way to Orchard and Tree Harvesting Superstardom, we have plenty of reasons to be disappointed with the new trend in Farmville Trees.  Since the launching of the English Countryside, all of the new trees have only been available for purchase and placement in the English Countryside.  This means that if you had a plethora of orchards lined up on your home farm, none of these orchards can help you speed up the process of getting seedlings for the new types of trees.  The fact that these new trees can only be purchased in the English Countryside means that you must start from scratch with your orchards and wait much longer to get one of those precious seedlings with the level 2 tree. 

The result of this change has been a major setback in new tree production across the board. With all of the things we must build on our new farm as well as seasonal item requests and the demand for bottles to feed lambs, our neighbors are sending less and less building materials.  This makes it even more difficult to build just a handful of orchards to give you better chances of getting a seedling for your new trees. Since people don’t generally have the parts for mass orchard construction, it has become a rarity to see a new tree posted to your news feed.  However, frustrating this is, I am here let you know that you do not have to fret over this change.  Once you get past the initial stage of acquiring a new tree seedling, you will be able to grow that seedling and multiply the new tree just as you did before.  If you haven’t already figured out how to do this, here is how.

1.     Build as many orchards as you can manage on your new farm and keep building as you get materials.  The lack of orchards may put you back four to six days before you are able to get a seedling.  That is why it is important to keep building.

2.     Keep one new tree in each orchard.  I'm not sure how this works yet, but I heard the FV is allowing us to have both farms progress at the same time.  Make sure that it is on this setting or stay in the English Countryside when you are away from you computer.

3.     When the trees are ready, harvest one, then remove the tree and place it in the next ready orchard.  Harvest the next orchard and move both to the next orchard.  Keep moving all the trees until you get to the last orchard.  This is not the best method of getting a seedling, but with limited numbers of orchards, increasing the number of trees will at least increase your chances of getting a seedling.  Make sure you have at least three of the new trees; though four or five would be and ideal minimum.

4.     Once you get a seedling, keep it in your gift box. Keep moving trees until the all of your ready orchards have been harvested.  Depending on how many orchards you are able to build, you may get a small handful of seedlings.  I got two seedlings yesterday with only five ready orchards and seven new trees once I got to the final orchard.

5.     Now that you have these seedlings, return to your home farm.  Grow the seedlings on your home farm and place the level 2 trees one of your orchards.

6.     Follow the steps for producing 100% new trees from seedlings.  In short, move the new trees two to three at a time from ready orchard to ready orchard.  You will have little to no luck if only moving one tree.  Each orchard should have one newish tree in it to make it ready.  When moving the new trees, alternate numbers of trees for better chances of getting a seedling.

7.     Lastly, if you are on your English Countryside farm, breeding sheep be sure to return to your home farm so that your orchards will grow.  If you leave when you are on your new farm, no progress will be made on your old farm.  However, FV has a new setting to let both farms progress at the same time.  Be sure to have it on that setting.

The little known fact that you are able to transfer these level 2 English Countryside trees over to your home farm is the key to mass, producing them.  Once you have a handful of seedlings in your home farm, keep doing the same thing and keep spreading the new trees to your neighbors.  Furthermore, if you are lucky enough to adopt one of the new trees off your feed, just make sure to put it on your home farm where you have your orchards built up and can multiply it much more efficiently than you can on your English Countryside.  I hope that all of you avid tree harvesters will start using this method and I look forward to seeing new tree posts return to the game once again.

Farmville Orchard Tips: Get 100% New Trees from Seedlings

For those of you who enjoy growing trees in Farmville, getting the most recently released trees from your seedling is likely your number one goal.  Some players may have noticed that Farmville recently changed the orchard settings and made it much more difficult to produce the desired seedlings or to get seedlings at all.  I know I am not the only one frustrated by this change.  Despite my frustration, I’ve learned how to work around the changes and still get optimal results. 

If you wish to see your seedling production grow and get more new trees from your seedlings, you need only to follow the five steps below:

Steps for Optimal Seedling Production:

1).  Build, Build, Build as many orchards as possible.  The more orchards you have on your farm, the more chances you have to harvest seedlings for your desired tree.  Twenty or more orchards will give you plenty of tries to produce a handful of good seedlings.

2).  Have at least two of the desired tree you wish to produce.  Having three or four of the new tree will increase your chances, but two is enough for a slower start.

3). Insure that there is only one tree in each of your orchards.  It is best that the tree you place in your orchard be the newest type of tree possible since Farmville is more likely to give you a seedling for the older tree over the newer one even if you have more of the newer tree in your orchard.

4).  When your orchards are ready, place your two new trees in an orchard that only has one tree in it.  Harvest.  If you get only water, remove one new tree from the orchard you just harvested, and place in the next orchard.  Harvest.  If you get nothing again, move both new trees into the next ready orchard and harvest.  The reason you follow this pattern is because you have a better chance of getting a seedling if you alternate the number of trees that you harvest in your orchards.  A word of caution: when harvesting with only two new trees, you will most likely get a seedling that will turn into the older tree if the seedling comes from an orchard that only has two trees in it.  Following the same process, but using more than two trees will eliminate this problem.

5). Once you get a seedling, stop harvesting your orchards and water the seedling.  It may be possible that the seedling holds the tree you wish to produce.  If your seedling is good and produces the tree you want, use this new tree in order to get better results from the remainder of your orchards.

Using these five steps will increase your production of new tree seedlings.  However, if you still get into a rut and get nothing but water, try harvesting a full orchard from time to time. This seems to help as well.  If this seems like a lot of work, once you have produced a number of your desired tree, place the new trees in your orchards in an alternating order.  For example: two trees, one tree, two trees...  The next time you harvest, just click to harvest and you will have similar results.  Additionally, you can keep adding trees to these orchards for better results.  However, I like to keep one tree in the majority of my orchards so they will be ready to produce seedlings for the next new tree that comes out. :)