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That's a good very good point. Maybe I will set up a testing world on a day I got no plans. Thank you for the help!

This is a good point, I will try this next and see how it goes. I switched the soil to a higher tier and it does seem to be helping. This time I was able to get 2 full pumpkins and one is growing. Also found out that if a vine (B) grows off another vine (A) but vine (A) withers, destroying vine (A) gets rid of vine (B) even through it was not withered. So may be worth leaving the withered vines if it has sprawled out from that point It does feel like the mother plant reached stage 7 faster this time since growth was 120% But this time, I stayed in and around my base to keep its chunk loaded. I was able to watch the vines grow and sprawl much faster. Too many changes though to really know which is affecting the plants success this time (I found 7 seeds so I have room for error)

Thank you, I was figuring it was bad luck since from what I found it looks like 50/50 for it's rolls. I also believe that trimming the withered vines help since it can roll to maybe grow more vines in that direction, but will need more testing. I swapped out the soil to Tera petra that most everyone was saying to use; I will see how this goes. I plan on updating this post with info I gather before marking it as solved to just help out other people who may have trouble with it.

I am into my second year in June, and I started a pumpkin patch late spring. The plant struggled but managed to grow one arm of vine out 4 blocks, flowered, and produced one pumpkin. I kinda thought that it would stay and keep producing them (but I also don't know how actual pumpkin works). When the mother plant reaches stage 8, does it immediately die? I have it planted on a Med. dirt, with a bunch of bonemeal, it had grow speed 109% (nutrients stayed above 50%) and I started watching it and keeping it watered. Does too much fertilizer kill plants?

Agreed! Can't wait to have excess to store, feed pigs, and make pies! Thats far off for now.

I like how hard it is to get a tree growing, it makes the game even more immersive. Fruit trees are hard to grow and take time to start producing--I cant imagine getting cuttings to take is an easy task. I'm trying to get some cuttings to take before winter.