Yeah there's nothing much you can do about the wishes not popping except maybe keep having Peppermint make money but never reach the goal until she or even a future generation can pop the wish.
What growth state are your plums in? Plants outside only grow when there hasn't been a frost. Otherwise they do go dormant if they are not indoors. Plants can get stuck quite easily using bloom, greenhouse premium content object and the unicorn's trick. If they are stuck in Harvest, then your fairy can't use bloom and they won't change state so you'll need to plant again. I've noticed the "sticking" of the growth state tends to happen more for plants that are planted in a cold fall, winter or cold spring when they would have normally been dormant.
Vacation days do refer to China/Egypt/France. An heir can go at any time during your life states dynasty. However, you are only allowed 7 days per heir ever. That means your founder can only spend 7 days total in a vacation world for her entire life. That's not 7 per world that's 7 total for all three forever. If you send an heir current or previous to a world it counts as a day even if they are not there for 24 hours. We don't count partials As cathy said - a vacation home can be bought by a spare or spouse and it will remain with the household. Then if you have the ancient coins you can buy the certificate - put it in the traveling persons inventory and they will get 3 extra days or use the LTR prepared traveler for an extra 3 days.
As for asking questions, for answers it's always best to ask here. The challenge team cannot guarantee the time to read everyone's story threads every day or if at all. So any dynasty questions need to be asked in this thread if you want the proper official response. Yes some members already know the answer and we're not saying they don't. However, it's not unheard of for a member to give the wrong answer as well.
Thanks for your help.
My founder has used up her vacation days then with 3 in China and 3 in France. I just wasn't sure if the restriction only applied when trying to reach her requirements and then she'd be free to go again. I don't really like World Adventures and it is super buggy so I try not to use it much. She just needed the plums for her opportunity and then I wanted her to learn nectar making. (I got the three types of grapes grown at the nectary, but I guess if I want the other types of grapes, someone else will have to go. I didn't know there more than three.)
I guess my plants are stuck. I don't know what I can do about it. :-/ It's not giving her the option to use "bloom" on them.
The plum trees are full grown trees. I think she planted them in the fall after returning from China. I don't think they've ever bloomed. I'm not sure if the pomegranates she got in France ever bloomed either. She planted those in the spring after the snow melted, but it might have still been cold. It's summer again now and nothing is blooming except life fruit, flame fruit, and money trees. Plums would have been planted in Fall 1, pomegranates Spring 1, and it is now summer 3 (with the game starting in summer 1).
I can't replant because she's used up everything making nectar and/or selling it to the consignment store to raise her gardener career level. I expected things to start blooming after the snow melted. :-(
I wasn't sure if reasking questions here was encouraged or not. I didn't want to ask something that had already been covered. But I guess y'all don't mind repeat questions. :-)