Kelp grows much slower in 1.14

This is also true on Switch in 1.14

I can confirm this. My kelp farm no longer produces anything.

I ran a test by planting some kelp in water and watching and after half hour, none have grown. 

Basically destroys kelp as a useful item in this game now.

I have a monster kelp farm that would produce kelp faster than I could smelt it but it's piratically non functional now.

Kelp in my farm quit growing after 1.14 update

This is also happening on realms. Probably a result of the fix for MCPE-50175, Which fixed a bug in the growth of kelp

Can confirm that a 196 plant kelp farm now shows zero growth on 1.14, farm completely broken. Windows 10 edition.

This seems to be the theme of late, 'fix' a bug - introduce a bigger bug. Personally I'd rather have a laggy kelp farm than a broken one.

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