Tree Planting in Farming Simulator 22

[Snake Man]

This is my Farming Simulator 22 (FS22) Tree Planting Guide, experienced and learned live as I play my own savegame. Not sure if I ever planted FS22 trees before, but now I am planting some spruces along the edges of my farm yards as wind breakers, just like they do in american farming err in farm yards

2025-09-26T10:18:38Z

Purchase demco PL-75 implement, attach it to a tractor. Then purchase tree saplings, on the buy menu you can select tree types, seems like all in-game tree types are available to buy. Please note that you cant visually see which tree sapling type pallet you have, at least I cant, there seems to be subtle differences but man those saplings look all the same to me.

Refill tree sapling pallet into demco PL-75 tree planter. Drive to your own farmland area, you cannot plant trees to land you do not own, turn on the planter with B hotkey, then lower the planter with V hotkey (defaults) and drive forward, soon first tree sapling is planted and when you drive further more of them get planted.

One tree sapling pallet "refill" has 20 tree saplings. This lasts pretty OK for some farm yard wind breaker decorations, but for large scale logging operations you are going to need a bigger boat, err I mean a lot more sapling pallets.

Three sapling growth time is between 2 and 24 in-game PMCTODO DAYS OR MONTHS?, depending on the tree type. I have no idea which tree has what actual growth duration.

I planted my spruce and pine (and one stone pine or something) tree types on JUNE 1st, this begins the countdown to see how many months it takes for these trees to grow. My savegame is running 9 days "seasons" config.

2025-09-29T09:56:54Z

On another gaming day I planted more trees to another farm yard, this was in-game jun 5th.

Trees get written in savegame directorys "treePlant.xml" config file. There are few settings as shown below.

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<tree treeType="SPRUCE1" position="5243.4805 16.2067 8877.8896" rotation="0.0000 155.6082 0.0000" growthState="0.018166" growthStateI="1" isGrowing="true" splitShapeFileId="1"/>

Also I learned from giants website blog news (image) that spruce is the only tree I want to use, pine and stone pine are not at all the regular well err spruce aka Christmas tree looking trees. Yeah they are pines so kind of the same, but they just look almost completely different, at least to me. Spruce is green thick from ground up, actually its widest on the ground level and gets narrower on the top, pines look almost like "european palm trees"

Its kind of completely different thing but in the end, kind of the same... but in landscaping mode there is tree planting, the terrain config files just need to be setup for additional trees as the bare bones modDesc.xml store items file contain several trees but not all of them, for example spruces are missing. Also I think some bushes might be missing too, flowers as well. Anyways as said kind of different thing.

2025-09-29T11:07:24Z

Its now in-game jul 2nd and I see no visual growth on the planted trees by my first farm yard planting location. So its clear the FS22 tree growth is months instead of days, there has been on changes between jun 5th and jul 2nd on 9 days seasons config.


Farming Simulator 22 Tree Planting Guide by PMC. FS22 HOWTO Plant Trees. Farmsim how long time for trees to grow? Spruce or Pine trees to plant in FS22. What equipment plants trees in FS22?

[Snake Man]

2025-10-02T18:11:37Z

Its now in-game aug 1st and I cant tell if any growth stages have changed on those planted tree saplings, so I would say that if you cant tell the difference... maybe there are none, I mean it would be silly to create two such similar looking 3d models/textures. I am now somewhat surprised how long time it takes for these trees to start even growing, let alone how many MONTHS it will eventually take for them to grow into adult tree sizes. Not that I'm in any hurry, this was just a fun hobby type thing to decorate farm yard edges a bit, but yeah, call me surprised.

[Snake Man]

2025-10-04T21:46:15Z

Its now in-game oct 1st 1430hrs and for the first time I spotted that one of the ... probably pine something, stone pine(?) trees had switched into first larger growth stage, this is like very very small tree but at least it doesn't look like a flimsy flower anymore ie sapling. However spruces are still the same sapling sizes, no growth stage change yet.

[Snake Man]

2025-10-08T23:51:54Z

In-game mar 1st, now my spruce trees have switched growth stages. I actually have hard data from additional field info box, it shows type: spruce, length: 11.6m, diameter: 0.2m, growth stage: 2/4, age: 1.841/5.184h.

These spruce trees are... I would say normal size, they are even large if you want to call them that, I was expecting some small Christmas tree sizes first at maximum, but these are... like house tall and size, actually doesn't it say the length right there, 11.6 meters, now that is no small tree for sure

So there you go, this is the first growth stage that switched, I believe they are planted as saplings in growth stage 1, at least savegame XML config file stated so, now this is second growth stage out of four, I am really curious now to see how stage 3 and obviously the final 4th looks like, I'm just hoping I can spot the change clearly, that its not something subtle, I doubt it would be subtle but you never know, now I need to frantically check trees every new month hah. Well maybe that would be overkill, at least the next few months I can just chill. Heck I could simply check the XML config file in notepad++ as that shows growth stage hard data, leaves no room for interpretation.

While I am happy to see my trees grow and surprised of this amount of growth overnight, I hate to admit that these trees look like shit now as a large group of them, because they were planted in perfect line driving tractor forward and they grow at exact same sizes, I assume they have random rotation though and I recall it was in the savegame XML config file, but yeah these look traditional "identical clone army of trees" that so many terrain developers have mistakenly done since FS17 era and I see no end in sight for that. Yeah I hate these kind of tree placement situations, such a shame that now my farm yards are surrounded by identical clone army trees

2025-10-09T09:22:20Z

Just starting my new FS22 farming gaming day, took savegame4 backups, then opened treePlant.xml savegame config file in notepad++ and replaced all stonepine and pine tree class names with SPRUCE1 because I simply cannot stand those disgusting looking odd pine trees, it was my mistake to plant them as I was clueless of the tree types so just blindly bought the saplings, now that mistake got corrected.

Started FS22 and loaded savegame4 up, tree savegame XML config replacement worked just fine, now all my trees are spruce1 types, so no more ugly odd looking trees, great. However still to remind, when you use tractor and demco tree sapling planter it makes perfect lines, trees do have a random rotation I confirmed that from the XML config file, but the size is identical and as said they are in straight unnatural looking line, they look like traditional FS17 era "identical clone army of trees", looks horrible, but hey if you don't like it, then don't plant them, do the work in giants editor in the first place, or get the terrain XML config file fix so you can buy trees as kind of placeables, I assume you have all growth stages available there

Anyways my spruce trees are looking good at growth stage 2, cant wait to see the next growth stage in months time.

[Snake Man]

2025-10-21T08:55:23Z

Just noticed now, not sure why as the trees do look quite a bit different, but its in-game oct 2nd and I had some gut feeling and went to check closer and sure enough my SPRUCE trees have changed growth stage now, its 3 / 4. Spruce tree length is 25.5m, diameter 0.6m and age 3.463 / 5.184h as I'm typing this.

These spruce trees look significantly different now when looked up close. I like it

I planted the trees without knowing the final tree size. They were planted in two rows quite close together, basically the small narrow area between fields, ditch area I guess, not sure how many meters is that. I used the Damcon PL-75 tree saplings planter pulled by my tractor, so the two lines were pretty close to each other which was my doing but the frequency trees are planted came from the planter. Now it turns out that my two row trees are... definitely overlapping, I mean I like how it looks, but dunno if larger area like that could cause FPS drop, I cant really tell right now. What I'm trying to say is that I sort of made a mistake planting the trees so close together in these two rows, they should have been split apart and ... not sure how to describe it but "intermittent" planting, like plant one tree to the left side, then next to the right side so the branches would not overlap too much.

Anyways, oct 2nd, spruce tree stage 3 / 4 has been applied, cool

Went to check my other farm yard where another batch of spruce trees got planted few in-game days later what I recall, they are still growth stage 2 / 4. Cant wait to see how that farm yard looks like with the almost full grown trees.