Plants not growing after freeze/unfreeze, possible Steam version bug ?

[Nistarok]

Hi guy, I am currently growing a juicy queenbeet, got the garden frozen for a while then unfroze it, since then dozens of ticks have gone by, and no growing in sight. Possible bug ? Can anyone relate ?

[Mysterious Penguin]

If you hover over Juicy Queenbeet it should tell you how long it takes to mature. This particular plant takes a little over 3 days which is somewhere in the realm of 800 ticks.

[Nistarok]

Originally posted by Mysterious Penguin:

If you hover over Juicy Queenbeet it should tell you how long it takes to mature. This particular plant takes a little over 3 days which is somewhere in the realm of 800 ticks.

I know this very well, and it has been stuck at 275 ticks left until maturation for well over 50 ticks now.

[Mysterious Penguin]

Actually now that you mention it (I hadn't checked prior) the juicy queenbeet I was growing is currently stuck at 775 ticks after being frozen. My other plants don't have problems in growing even if frozen or unfrozen though, only the juicy queenbeet. Strange.

[Blessed]

My Juicy Queenbeet is not growing too. It is now stuck at somewhere between 1 hr 11 mins and 2 hrs 3 mins. Even though many ticks have gone by, the age of the plant seems to not really go forward ... it may have even gone backwards. And I do not have this issue with my other plants. I unlocked 33 seeds except the JQB.

I found the answer to this problem after searching on cookie clicker reddit. A post on there by the user Ardub23 reads:

"A plant's age is actually a hidden value that randomly increments with each tick; what you see is just the average number of ticks it'll take to mature given the average amount it ages per tick.

Most plants increment their age every tick by a value with some degree of randomness; for instance, the age of baker's wheat goes up by 7–9 each tick, and it matures at an age of 35. Under normal circumstances, juicy queenbeets have an 8% chance of incrementing their age value by 1 with each tick, and they mature when their age reaches 85.

In other words, with each tick there's only a 1-in-12.5 chance of the age changing at all, but when it does, the number you see will change from 165 to 153 (or thereabouts)."

I tested this and my JQB is matured now :)