About this mod
The Gildergreen sapling will progressively grow over the course of 4 months, instead of staying as the sapling for the rest of the game. This mod also adds two small dialogue lines to Danica and an obtainable buff you can get for watering the Gildergreen. (ESL Flagged)
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This mod lets the Gildergreen Sapling progressively grow overtime, and you can see it slowly progress in size into the fully grown tree. There are 3 interim tree states between the fresh sapling and the fully grown Gildergreen. It will take the sapling roughly 4 months to fully grow to it's full size. This adds new reasons to go the peaceful route with Maurice during the Gildergreen quest. You will also have 2 new small dialogue lines with Danica, one when the tree has started growing and one when the tree has fully grown. The tree, once fully grown, will have falling petals around it.
You can also water the Gildergreen, via a bucket added by the tree. Interacting with it will make you water the tree via the bucket on the ground. Interacting with the bucket once the sapling is planted or once the tree has been repaired will give the player a short buff. Here is are the buffs available:
- Kynareth's Vigor - Gain 10 Health for 2 hours. Available if you used the sap to restore the Gildergreen.
- Kynareth's Renewal - Gain 5 Health Regeneration for 2 hours. Available if you got the sapling to plant a new Gildergreen.
- Kynareth's Renewal - Gain 10 Health Regeneration for 4 hours. Once the sapling is fully grown, you will receive this buff instead.
The mod is ESL Flagged and no unneeded CC masters.

FAQ
Does this mod replace the tree or sapling model?
No, it will use whatever replacer you have. This mod doesn't have any tree meshes or textures. I also don't add any clutter or hanging objects to the tree, those in the screenshots are just from a Gildergreen replacer I use.
Can I add this midsave?
Yes. If you have gotten the sapling already in your save, the growing process will start as soon as you change locations!
Can I make the growth of the tree faster?
Yes. You can edit the global value "TGGGrowthDelay" in xEdit or in the console type "set TGGGrowthDelay to X", with X being how many days you want each tree stage to last!
Compatibility
Capital Whiterun - Compatible
Spaghetti's Whiterun - Compatible
Other Whiterun Overhauls - Compatible
Subdivide and Smooth - Unique Trees - Compatible
Nature of the Wildlands - Compatible with patch from here
Traverse the Ulvenwald - Compatible
Other Gildergreen tree replacers - Compatible - If they drastically change the trees they might just need to be moved a bit to not look off for the interim stages.
SR Exterior Cities - Running Synthesis Patch should make it work. Not sure.
Open Cities - Needs Patch that currently doesn't exist
Gildergreen Regrown - Incompatible
Gildergreen Fix - Incompatible
Other mods that do a similar thing - Incompatible
Mods that add falling leaf particles to the Gildergreen - Incompatible - This mod does a similar thing already and you could end up with too many particles in one area.
Credits
FrankBlack for Real Water in Buckets and Barrels and Pots and Pans for the bucket with water model.
The buckets use the model from Bucket Enrichment by gooball60.
The bucket textures are from Weathered Buckets Retexture by BasPeeters1.
jayserpa for the tree watering idea!
ItzIvy for testing!
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