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A way to stunt plant growth

An item that when used on a plant causes it to stop growing. It could be charred bonemeal because it is basically the oppsoite of bonemeal. This would be useful when one wants to have plants as decoration, so they wouldn't have to use string to prevent the plant from growing to far. 

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    Just put string over the plant. It won’t grow and is almost impossible to see. 

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    Fantastic idea! I thought of this recently because of the new azalea bushes. I wanted to use the plain ones as decoration around my house, but the string method was way too awkward looking, and I'm kind of a perfectionist. I thought it could be crafted from a common drop from wither skeletons, possibly from "withered bones" instead of regular bones, to make "withered bonemeal." Or maybe you could combine bonemeal and coal in the crafting menu to get the "charred bonemeal" as you suggested. It would be especially useful on saplings, sugar cane, and cacti, because those are the items that the string really stands out on. After a plant is stunted with this item, the only way to revert it to its natural state could be to either "regular" bonemeal it, or break it and place it back down. A stunted plant would have no visible differences between itself and its un-stunted counterparts because that would mostly defeat the purpose; but rather, it would be recognizable by the fact that it hasn't grown. Alternatively, the "anti-bonemeal" could be somehow related to the new powdered snow, as some form of that item could be used to craft a freezing device of sorts that stunts plant growth that way. Either way, it's a great idea and I'd love to see it eventually added to the game!

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    I know it's been a long time since your post, but I reccomend making a suggestion either in r/minecraftsuggestions or just the regular minecraft subreddit (if already done maybe a repost). Since they already added an item for stopping mob growth it now makes even more sense/wouldn't mess with the game to add an item for stopping plant growth. Infact, I feel like this "charred bonemeal" would be a far more useful item than the golden dandelion and would be revolutionary for building. Yes, a string can be used instead, but as somebody else already said, that doesn't really look good. I believe Mojang would be willing to add an item like this, that's why I think it would be great to get this suggestion more recognition so more people could vote for it.