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Infobox Error
The "Growth Time" section in the infobox is incorrect. 28 days is the time the banana sapling takes to grow. The time for a banana to grow is one day. 03:32, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
- The growth time at fruit tree fruits is always Seed/Sapling-specified. You can't plant a Banana on the ground, so itself can't grow. At the page of a normal crop like Parsnip, there's the growth time of the Parsnipseeds, too. At a multiple harvest crop page, there's the seed growth time and "Thereafter" every 2 days (Coffee Bean). Botautal (talk) 22:16, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
- Well, I agree that it's an error all over the place on the wiki. Seeds/starters/saplings grow, yes, from beginning to mature plant. But crop produce (like parsnips, coffee, and bananas) grows too - on the plant. With many crops, like parsnips, the produce grow time is (in effect) zero, since the plant itself *is* the produce. But multi-season or repeating behavior is different. Then the produce appears once as soon as the plant matures, and thereafter repeatedly according to its growth time. With bananas, the tree grows, gives one produce when it matures, and another produce every day thereafter, for a growth time of one day.
- The entire Wiki has been devoted to focusing on plant growth and treating produce growth as a sidebar. That works for many crops, but not so well for others. And it's particularly lopsided for fruit trees. That's because so much depends on the lifespan of the plant itself. Multi-season crops go for over 28 days; trees and bushes are forever, unless chopped. Fruit trees need a certain area for planting, and that area needs to remain clear until the plant is fully grown. Afterwards, you can suddenly surround the tree however you please, but it still grows produce.
- With something like a parsnip, we need only two articles, one for seed, one for crop (meaning produce). With fruit trees, we could also do fine with only one for sapling and one for produce, but we currently have another for the tree. Thus the articles include plant growth info in two different articles. I ask why. But as things are, I think there should be more emphasis upon the specific item of each article, and make all the information in each article specific to that item, be it seed/sapling, mature plant, or the produce of the plant. Repetition of info is messy and subject to misfits or errors, and may extend article length and make information harder to locate. In addition, such jumbo articles can lead writers to give attention to certain things and neglect to mention others. Where in the current arrangement is a nice succinct description of the various aspects of planting a sapling or of tending its grid during its growth? The sapling article, as it should be. Why is it also in the tree article? The tree is already mature, planting was done and plant growth is complete. The only thing the tree grows is produce. 28 days? That's poor article focus. Giles (talk) 16:27, 13 April 2021 (UTC)