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Does anyone know if it's possible to grow grass underground?

I've made a trail of dirt 2 blocks wide down into my cave, with torches on both sides of it for light, does this work?
Or am I wasting my time?

<--- What my path is like.

If part of the dirt path is connected to a grass block, then yes, grass will grow on it. If not, then no.

I've done a small scale experiment with growing grass in the dark abyss. I cracked into a large, egg shaped cave that had no access to the sun, yet had grass growing in it. After moving some dirt blocks around, I found that with torches nearby, grass would grow.

I'm getting good results now, it's creeping slowly into the cave, so it should be done later on.
Thanks for all the quick responses. Happy Mining!

I was in the same boat Verthian when I did mine, I wasn't sure if grass grew underground, and it took several ingame days before I knew for sure it was going to work.

Once it got this far though:


It sped up alot:


But yeah, it does work, and once you get it down there you can cut the source path off if you dont need it and fill it back in

if you have grass in a cave, then you remove the lights, will the grass die?

I don't think it will die