Animal Crossing: New Horizons

There are many ways for Animal Crossing: New Horizons players to customize their island into the paradise of their dreams. One of these things that players can do to spruce up their island to increase its overall rating is plant flowers and trees, and other types of foliage. Trees can be grown by planting Saplings into the ground and then waiting a few days, but players can use this guide to learn how to stunt tree growth in ACNH to have different tree sizes for design opportunities.

How to Stunt Tree Growth

Saplings from Nook's Cranny have several stages that they go through before they can fully become large trees. However, players can stop the growth at any of the tree's stages by doing one simple thing: planting a fruit directly behind the tree sapling. This will only work if the fruit is planted exactly one space behind the sapling location; otherwise, the tree will grow normally. It also doesn't matter which type of fruit is buried in the ground, as it won't ever develop into a full tree as long as the sapling is beneath it.

The sapling takes a couple of days to form fully, so Animal Crossing: New Horizons players can choose when to plant the fruit to stop the growth whenever they would like to. When they come back the next day, they will find that the tree has stopped growing and the fruit is still just a tiny plant. If players want to produce multiple trees of different sizes, they can always time travel to speed up the process.

How to Time Travel in ACNH

Players can time travel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons so that they don't need to wait for things to grow or events to happen. It can allow a player to speed through the game faster than other players, but some fans think of it as an exploit that prevents players from having fun and enjoying the game as the developers intended it.

To time travel, players need to access the System Settings on their Switch, head down to the System tab and then press the Date and Time option to shift the date forward. Now, make sure the Animal Crossing game has been closed and then re-open it to find that time has passed.