[Question] Getting the state of wheat

I'm just wondering if there's some way to check how mature wheat is.

unfortunately not… there may be a peripheral specifically for that but I doubt it

Not even the much requested detect block ID (which is never going to happen) can help there. The way to know that wheat is mature is use bonemeal on it.

you can use aperture science peripheral's database turtles

If I use a silk touch pickaxe on some mature wheat, so I have a block of wheat, and I put it in a turtle's inventory, and use the turtle.compare() method on a piece of farmland, will that work? Will the turtle distinguish between mature wheat and green wheat?

If anyone has a definitive answer, with or without explanation, I'd be grateful.

Go ingame, plant a couple of wheat blocks. Use bonemeal to mature one. Now use pick block to grab each of them in turn.

There's your answer, pretty much.

Not pickblock neither silk touch will work on wheat, to actually get the wheatblock. Your best bet is Aperture Science Turtle Upgrades with database turtles or ID reading turtles.

The point is that I'm pretty sure it's the same block at any stage of growth. The pick block logic doesn't distinguish between newly planted and fully mature, or any stage in between. So there's never going to be a way to have a turtle tell other than by using bonemeal on it.