4th Gen Lengths of time for pokemon to smell honey

[paperfunk]

you should always save your game before you try to catch a honey tree pokemon, so if you dont get what you want, you can just restart the game.

i dont know if thats true. i saved before my honey tree, got an aipom, SRed, got another aipom, repeat five more times. then i just gave up.

 

[HalcyonXIII]

It won't work if you are looking for a different Pokémon. The species is always the same if you save in front of the tree when it is shaking, and reset.
SRing will only change the gender, nature, IVs and so on.

 

[Yuoaman]

It took me 39 hours!! And I only got a stupid Weedle! I almost threw my DS away, though I tried one last time and it took 6 hours and I got a Munchlax.... which kind of smoothed it over....