Is there any way to specify number of growth stages on a plant? It seems everything is programmed to go through 8 stages from what I can tell, I tried putting less individual texture references and it seemed to loop around in texture, but I don't think it actually worked to slow the growth rate.

Not at the moment, but Im going to move over teh growth stage from meta to a value on the TileEntity anyway.

Lol. Thank goodness. Keeping the meta value up to date with the tile entity was getting annoying...

The number of growth stages will now be inferred from the number of textures provided in the json descriptor file.