@OcelotOnesie Thank you so much, it seems to be fixed
For me, this happens with all items, my screenshot with the chicken shows that behavior
I set the tick speed to 1000 in a creative world in front of a kelp farm, and nothing grew for several minutes. Is this slow growth, or no growth?
Fixed on server.pro free server, here were my steps:
1: go to the ftp tab, open the ftp link in windows explorer
2: copy worlds folder, whitelist.json(if needed), server-properties.json and permissions.json to a local folder
3: go to the reinstall tab, select "yes" in the "remove files" dropdown, click reinstall and confirm reinstall
4: copy back the files copied onto local system, replacing the files in the ftp, game should now be fixed