For normal crops the skill works as intended, but no longer for trees since the update. I restarted a day with 2 of my own ready and 7 ready around Holly's farm 5 times and got 0. Even with bad luck I would have gotten like 5 before the update. I haven't read anything in the patchnotes about this being changed. If it's considered a patch I would suggest to revert it as it's currently the only way to get at least some tree saplings in a reliable way as the twins are not reliable in regards to tree saplings or tree produces.
#Mother plant no longer working on trees (not a bug)
fresh wing
night geode
Ran a quick check, a couple of repeat days with 20+ trees, wild and local. Does seem to be the case.
And unless the twins' priority to sell saplings that ones does not possess is back, it may be further an issue.
fresh wing
Ran a quick check, a couple of repeat days with 20+ trees, wild and local. Does ...
It would be better to have the left twin selling produces of trees that you don't have and aren't available on the map while in season guaranteed when they're in season (similar to Holly with the 2-5 honey). That would prevent being locked out lots of recipes to begin with. 🤷♀️
fresh wing
It's intentional.
Thanks for clarification.
Mother plant no longer working on trees (not a bug)
ionic ether
Not sure why they didn't put it in the patch notes for the update, maybe they thought it was a beta-specific bug.
fresh wing
Or they just forgot it with all the news about the update and all. 🤷♀️
night geode
I can see noting every single fix note as being additional effort for the volunteers at translation... but some public disclosure outside the server would be welcome. Folks in Turkey or Russia for instance now no longer being able to access Discord as a whole, and if we had translators for their languages, unless they're using VPN or are already in crowdin, they're getting the short end of the stick as well.
Came as a bit of a shock for me as well. have no further reason to harvest them now either since I was stockpiling them and would do the same for pistachios if I ever got one.
oh well, two more skills to reroll 
seed refund is nice and all but I get a little too much extra as is.
trail horizon
I did bring this up in the beta. Mother plant was very broken late game, and you wound up having chests full of seedlings with no place to put them.
Believe me, it is better this way.
fresh wing
I did bring this up in the beta. Mother plant was very broken late game, and you...
I do agree with you in regards to the late game issue hence why I do understand why it was fixed. But it also makes produces from trees more scarce as we can no longer "multiply" them to circumvent the issue with the twins not being reliable. A second roll per week or us being able to trade tree saplings for different ones or something like that could help with that. Don't get me wrong: This is still early access and I'm sure the devs will come up with solutions to solve such problems (i.e. new areas with more pre-planted trees for example). 🙂
trail horizon
I do agree with you in regards to the late game issue hence why I do understand ...
I'm sure they'll look at more balance for it down the line. But I had the road in front of my tavern lined with olive trees and a dozen more olive seedlings in a chest.
upper cairn
It was in the patch notes during the beta updates.
where can you see these?
trail horizon
where can you see these?
It's in the beta channel. By the wording of it it seems like it may not have been intentional to get saplings from fruit trees to begin with
upper cairn
which beta channel? is it pinned somewhere or