Forum:Tree Farms not using Foresty?

Tree farms not using Foresty?

I've been trying to work out a system of having an automatic treefarm using redpower blocks, with partial success.

Deployer will plant a sapling, a series of block breakers will harvest the wood, and falling saplings/apples will be collected by a floor of transposers, and block is placed in the air to stop the largest trees from spawning. The problem is the system works perfectly, apart from the fact that I have to force the sapling to grow with some bonemeal (takes a few attempts). The tree just seem to want to grow by itself.

Am I just being impatient, or is there something I'm missing in how trees grow? I don't really care how slow/ineffcient the system would be, I would just like to get some automated wood farming taking place.