Diseased plants and spraying

[GIJeff]

I have a level 2 farming skill and I am just starting to experiment with farming for the most part. Since I got the level 2 skill I noticed that a good portion of my plants were diseased. It doesn't give me any indication about what tpe of disease though (bugs or mold or whatever).

I made a bug spray anyway, went up to one of my plants and it gives a bunch of values to choose just like when you water your plants. The difference is there is no indicator telling you exaclty how much you need to spray like with water.

How much do you need to spray plants that are diseased? How do I even know if I am spraying the right stuff on them?

[Axelord1942]

Until your skill is high enough, you won't. One of the diseases can't be cured at all (Devil's Water Fungi) If you haven't already done so, it's good practice to keep the tiles you plant on seperate, so disease will not spread throughout your crops. You can always dig up the plant and regrow it. If it is Devil's Water Fungi then your harvest will be reduced. Hope tat's not what you got!

When your Farming skill is high enough it will tell you how much you need to spray. :)

[GIJeff]

So I just have to guess? I mean at least SOME indication seems called for both on which spray I need and how much.

[Axelord1942]

I wish I could tell you, but that's the only disease my crop has gotten. My Farming is at lvl 3, I get almost all the info I need to take proper care. It sucks but it's best to err on the sidde of caution and just dig up the diseased veggie and replant it. :/ Maybe in a future build they'll tweak the farming a little bit.

[GIJeff]

I put space between all my plants and the disease is somehow still spreading. It even jumped from one side of my house to the other and there are no plants to bridge the gap! Even though my plants are diseased they are still very healthy though.

[HugePinball]

It is still possible for crops to mature and be harvested with some disease, so depending how far along they are it may be worth it to let them go rather than digging up and restarting.

I may be wrong, but I think it will only give you the right-click option to treat a disease (mildew or pest flies) if you have the proper spray AND the crop actually has the disease, so at that point the guesswork would only be the amount of treatment needed. Like watering, the spray treatments are cumulative, so you could keep doing a little at a time until the disease is gone (the treatment option no longer appears). Crops can also have more than one disease at once.

[GIJeff]

hmm I haven't made a spray for mildew (I only have one spray can) so I will have to try that. I just recently learned you need milk for this -_-

[HugePinball]

Originally posted by GIJeff:

hmm I haven't made a spray for mildew (I only have one spray can) so I will have to try that. I just recently learned you need milk for this -_-

FYI, rotten milk works fine for that :)

[JpVicVega]

Milk is like the Gold of PZ..i get more excited for finding milk and trash bags then any one person should.