Melon/pumpkin stems

Melon/pumpkin stems not connecting to their fruit blocks placed in creative mode

In my creative worlds, I like to create artificial farms. Those will contain melons/pumpkins. Because most of the farms have height differences, and because the natural growing of the seeds will not place the melons/pumpkins where I want them to be, I place those melons/pumpkins BY MYSELF. This means that they haven't grown naturally. I will update the stem with bonemeal, and the stem WOULD connect to the fruit.

Since 1.13, that is no longer the case. A stem doesn't connect to the fruit anymore when it is not naturally placed. Most of my melon and pumpkin farms now consist of stems standing up with fruit blocks next to them.

I read that the stem ID's have been altered in 1.13. Does that have any benefits? There is a disadvantage to it at least.

SUGGESTION: Undo the alterations to the melon and pumpkin stem ID's that have been done in 1.13 or:

SUGGESTION: Please find a way to make the stems connect to not naturally grown fruit blocks.

Regards,

H Hoef