When placing four spruce saplings to grow a giant tree, the surrounding grass (12-18 block radius approx) turns to Podzol. When this happened to me in a multiplayer survival world on 18w15a I was in a Plains/Savannah.
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Growing a 2x2 spruce tree with bonemeal turns surrounding grass into Podzol
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It's meant to do that