Mac Silver saplings produce regular fruit when transplanted to greenhouse?

[Saichania]

Relatively new to playing (Jan of this year!), so not sure if I'm missing something - from what I've seen online, when a fruit tree has started making silver-quality fruit you can chop it down and get a silver sapling you can replant and will start growing silver right away once matured.

So beginning of Fall in Y2 I cut down 2/3 of my Summer trees giving me silver fruit and got silver saplings to replant in the greenhouse, but now it's mid-Winter Y2 and the silver saplings are producing regular fruit. :( What did I do wrong? I'm so bummed. but glad I at least have one sapling still making its way to gold. :\

 

[lurna]

That’s my understanding too, but they’re also supposed to mature faster depending on quality. Did you notice they were quicker to grow? Wondering if it’s greenhouse specific issue or not.

 

[Ereo]

They will grow quicker and then they will move through the qualities quicker, but they’ll always start at the base quality. You’ll get back to silver in less than a year though.

 

[Saichania]

They will grow quicker and then they will move through the qualities quicker, but they’ll always start at the base quality. You’ll get back to silver in less than a year though.

OH, the description I've seen pretty much everywhere online did not make that obvious. XD So how does that work though?

Plant	Fruit	Quality
Spring 3 Y1	Summer 3 Y1	basic
Fall 1 Y1	Summer 1 Y2	silver
Fall 1 Y2 [silver sapling]	Summer 1 Y3	basic? silver when?
Fall 1 Y3 [gold sapling?]	Summer 1 Y4	basic > silver > gold?

I'm trying to figure out how you ever get to iridium fruit if it keeps starting over from basic every time you replant? Not that I plan to keep replanting, but I keep seeing how that's a "hack" and I'm just not getting how. :\

Thanks for helping!

 

[Saichania]

That’s my understanding too, but they’re also supposed to mature faster depending on quality. Did you notice they were quicker to grow? Wondering if it’s greenhouse specific issue or not.

Shoot, I didn't even think to look. Inasmuch as I started a new game, I'll go back to that one and keep going, if I hit silver sooner, then sweet, although it'll be hard to tell in the greenhouse since it fruits year-round. XD