I finally found some time to play my game and I tried feeding the Omni plant by the Science Lab a bad apple. When I had my Sim harvest the Omni plant, the apples quality was normal. The Omni plant is normal quality itself, so I'm guessing it changes the bad apple to normal or it's my Sim's level 10 gardening skill. I didn't have any other vegetables that were of any worse quality (like putrid or horrifying) to try. Both the adult Sims are level 10 gardening so I will have to wait until their child ages up so I can have him grow some bad fruits/vegetables to check if it is possible to get a bad apple from the Omni plant.

I really like this. Thanks.

igzigpuff wrote:I finally found some time to play my game and I tried feeding the Omni plant by the Science Lab a bad apple. When I had my Sim harvest the Omni plant, the apples quality was normal. The Omni plant is normal quality itself, so I'm guessing it changes the bad apple to normal or it's my Sim's level 10 gardening skill. I didn't have any other vegetables that were of any worse quality (like putrid or horrifying) to try. Both the adult Sims are level 10 gardening so I will have to wait until their child ages up so I can have him grow some bad fruits/vegetables to check if it is possible to get a bad apple from the Omni plant.

Thanks for the update. I'm going to give it a whirl again on my gardener soon and see if I can come up with anything.

Another big day of writing. I got up at 8am and worked on the guide until 5 At least some of it wasn't work. I got to experience what it's like to play a heartbreaker and be in all those relationships.

Comments system on the guide is back up

I do have some feedback on your gardening guide, aside from it being completely awesome that is... Thanks for the effort for all the simmers out there.

The feedback is: I think fertilizing plants does make them grow to maturity faster. With my latest sim I have been experimenting with what happens when I don't fertilize, because I dread the chore of clicking through the garden of twenty thirty plants myself to make sure they don't need any fertilizer. (Can't always seem to see if the color of ground is different or not.) Anyway, in this testing, plants that are not fertilized do take longer to grow to maturity. Specially life fruit. Plants also produce, well, their given produce, faster if fertilized as well. Money trees if fertilized with life fruit produce money bags every other day. With no fertilizer, they produce money bags every third day. Fertilized or not, doesn't seem to effect how fast money trees move to perfect though.

Again, thanks for your great guide web site. Much good work on your behalf. :o)

Wow, really helpful and kudos for all the effort it looks like it took.

Thanks

MeestorMark wrote:I think fertilizing plants does make them grow to maturity faster. With my latest sim I have been experimenting with what happens when I don't fertilize, because I dread the chore of clicking through the garden of twenty thirty plants myself to make sure they don't need any fertilizer. (Can't always seem to see if the color of ground is different or not.) Anyway, in this testing, plants that are not fertilized do take longer to grow to maturity. Specially life fruit. Plants also produce, well, their given produce, faster if fertilized as well. Money trees if fertilized with life fruit produce money bags every other day. With no fertilizer, they produce money bags every third day. Fertilized or not, doesn't seem to effect how fast money trees move to perfect though.

Looks like I have some testing to do. I'll compare several sets of plants with these ideas in mind. Thank a lot for the feedback.

Been looking over the rest of your guide too. One word. SWEEEEET!!

I am so glad the Sims 3 came out in Summer, or I wouldn't have nearly this much done. I have about 2 weeks until I return to college then things will slow down a bit.

silencecomplex wrote:

MeestorMark wrote:I think fertilizing plants does make them grow to maturity faster. With my latest sim I have been experimenting with what happens when I don't fertilize, because I dread the chore of clicking through the garden of twenty thirty plants myself to make sure they don't need any fertilizer. (Can't always seem to see if the color of ground is different or not.) Anyway, in this testing, plants that are not fertilized do take longer to grow to maturity. Specially life fruit. Plants also produce, well, their given produce, faster if fertilized as well. Money trees if fertilized with life fruit produce money bags every other day. With no fertilizer, they produce money bags every third day. Fertilized or not, doesn't seem to effect how fast money trees move to perfect though.

Looks like I have some testing to do. I'll compare several sets of plants with these ideas in mind. Thank a lot for the feedback.

MeestorMark you may be interested to see my test results in this thread: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/81820.page It was a pretty big post and I didn't want to just bury it in here. I completely revamped the fertilizer guide, now located at http://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/gardening/fertilizer.php

Was very interested to see your results. Also color me impressed with your testing/work/thoroughness as well.

Seems interesting I will take a look at it.

Well I'm hoping to develop the final word on the subject. I doubt this is it, but it must come very very close after all that testing.

Still, I appreciate the feedback. Comments like that really help me improve the quality of my guide, so it helps a lot of players

Got it done. The gardening guide is now a lot more accurate

I am going to work on adding a page about the challenges (I don't know how I forgot that).