I made a farm of pumpkin and melon (together) and nothing has grown, even when I used bonemeal. Like I know that the stem thing will produce melon/pumpkin blocks, but in this case, nothing happened. Which leads me to possible problems:

1. No space, tree farm near it.
2. Cobblestone in which the blocks will go on top of
3. It just doesn't grow.

Let . be melon/pumpkin, ~ be water, and | tree farm and 0 be cobble

Design:

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So what's the problem?
And if I need to redesign, what should it look like?(only have 9 dirt, so)
And if I just have to move the tree farm, will it fix the problem?

 

I think it has to go on top of dirt.

 

You need a dirt block next to where the melon/pumpkin seeds will grow. The melons/pumpkins can only grow on dirt, not cobble or anything else. From what I understand from the little diagram, theyre next to cobble right now? If you replace the cobble with dirt, they should grow just fine. c:

 

The pumpkins/melons grow on cobble. They need to have dirt next to them, like the picture below.

Is this resolved?

 

XD LOL eehhemm back to topic

 

you have to have a dirt block under the seeds and the place where the melon/pumpkin will grow. I'm not sure whether water is needed.

 

Also, to make it grow faster place a light source next/near to it. Eg: (Torches, Glowstone block, lava)

 

Thanks guys!

I ran out of dirt however, unless I could use some grass blocks or something.

 

Grass blocks would work just fine as well.

 

I am poor atm, I used 22 grass blocks for 37 vote keys (kind of worth), so I have like 11?

 

Just make sure that with whatever grass you have (if you want to use it for melons/pumpkins) have it set up like CoolCreeper's diagram.

 

I'll make sure, gonna use the top one. ho, hopefully today I will get 5 extra grass block from voting, or a creeper head.

 

Has your question been answered?

 

Yes

 

Gonna go ahead and lock / archive this then~