Christmas Tree question

MiaSkywalker · December 10, 2012 at 1:27 PM

I've never been clear on this - are the burning Christmas trees bred only? Or can they be found in the garden, but they're just very rare? I'd like to know, so I can know if I should just take seeds from the wild, or if I should try breeding my own.

blobber · December 10, 2012 at 2:26 PM

See this thread Christmas tree - question mark?
It would appear the the burning tree is now breed only, but it's not clear. From Kelandra's post it looks like It depends when nonnymouse and truelinor got theirs.

MiaSkywalker · December 10, 2012 at 10:00 PM

Thank you. I saw that thread, but it still wasn't entirely clear. It seems that they are breed only, but then again, at Halloween this year we were able to get very old Jack-O-Lanterns from new seeds in the garden. I guess with the burning trees it's pretty firm though.

butcherbaby · December 11, 2012 at 9:14 AM

nonnymouse and trulinor have burning trees from 2010 that are parentless.

this burning tree is from 2011 and was bred. i don't think anyone got a burning tree from the wild garden last year, so i'm guessing they were breed only.

this year, i'm not sure. if it's like the jack o lanterns, we would be getting last years alts from breeding, and 2010's from the garden. since we don't know, i'm going to balance bred and wild seeds about equally until the first batches of trees grow up. hopefully by then it will be a little more clear what is available to us this year and how to get it.

Aztekior · December 11, 2012 at 11:15 AM

butcherbaby, the sense I can understand. The rule is very helping us. Each starting year has a definated way to get them. How will be the rule for one year more? We can no more know the right starting years. Therefore we was writing down the years.

Nisha · December 11, 2012 at 11:54 AM Official Post

Also this year the burning christmas tree is breed only.

Auch dieses Jahr kann der brennende Weihnachtsbaum nur übers Kreuzen erlangt werden.

Bludragon · December 11, 2012 at 9:05 PM

are there still christmas trees? i finally have some pots for them and i can't find any...

MiaSkywalker · December 11, 2012 at 9:20 PM

I'm not seeing any either. Sometimes the site admins have to do something if the seeds stop dropping, which seems to happen during events occasionally. I think it's because people are taking them so fast that they can't repopulate as quickly.

blobber · December 11, 2012 at 9:34 PM

I can't see any either, and SolarCat has said the same in the Christmas thread

nonnymouse · December 12, 2012 at 12:26 AM

They're back in the wild garden, now!

Bludragon · December 12, 2012 at 4:59 AM

yay! *goes Christmas tree hunting*

truelinor · December 13, 2012 at 5:15 AM

Just for the record, my burning Christmas tree was given to me - I just remembered that. I wish I knew who gave it to me.