If you place an oak sapling next to any other blocks, including logs, pistons, etc, it will still grow, either naturally or when you use bone meal on it.
However, other one-wide tree types do not grow if there are blocks beside the saplings. This is a very odd inconsistency between oak and the other sapling types.
This seems to vary between block types; for example, we were able to confirm that all tree types will still grow with dirt next to them, even though they will not with logs next to them.
Compare vs Java where all tree types can grow with blocks placed directly beside them.
Video demonstrating attempts at growing all four sapling types beside three different block types, using bone meal: https://youtu.be/HGCFOA4pgzc
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is duplicated by
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GoldenHelmet
To clarify, what NinjaPigeonHit is saying is that this statement from the description is false, or at least misleading:
Compare vs Java where all tree types can grow with blocks placed directly beside them.
The only disparity with Java here is that logs block normal tree growth in Bedrock, but not in Java. (By normal I mean excluding the special, rare chance for oak to grow next to any block.) So the expected result is that saplings would grow next to logs in the same way that they grow next to dirt, leaves, or air.
The OP has acknowledged that growth next to logs was their concern in making the report, in a comment reply on the linked video. This was also clearly stated as the expected result in the two reports linked as duplicates to this one. I will, therefore, update the summary to reflect this.
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owlfalls35
How to reproduce:
Grow a spruce sapling with bonemeal.
Place another spruce sapling next to your tree and try to grow it.
Observed results:
The sapling next to the tree never grows.
Expected results:
The sapling next to the tree should grow.
There was a problem I saw in your video, in the clips where you showed oak being grown next to the logs and pistons, that is not oaks normal growth requirements, it is a random chance that they will grow with those blocks next to them, but if their actual growth requirements are met, it will take on average 6 bonemeal attempts with dispensers, or 1 by the player. Oak growth requirements are the same as every other tree, except oak has a chance to become a large oak tree, and has a random chance of growing next to a tower of blocks that aren't dirt air or leaves, like shown in your video. The growth requirements is a 5 by 5 crown, with a 3 by 3 base, this is the same for all small tree types, those being oak, spruce, birch, jungle, and acacia. There is no inconsistency between growing requirements beside oaks random chance at growing when next to a tower of blocks, but when next to a tower of blocks, it normally blocks a lot of growth attempts. Besides those problems, this would also be disparity with the java version.