Unable to unlock new seeds in the garden?

[Satira]

I crossbred a new seed (I only have the first one) and waited for that one to mature. When it was, I harvested it to unlock the new seed (which it says should drop on harvesting). I didn't unlock a new seed.

Repeated the process 3 times. Still no seed dropped.

Am I doing something wrong? Why won't another seed unlock for me, even though I crossbred it, and let it grow to maturity before harvesting?

[Seth Abercromby]

Baker's Wheat doesn't drop the new seeds on being harvested, but if you have an empty plot with two mature baker's wheat adjacent to it, it has a small chance to develop into thumbcorn or one of the more rare mutations.

[Jigmac]

Yeah keep waiting, believe me it actually takes a while

[Tasty Salamanders]

To unlock new seeds you need to harvest mature plants that you don't have.

You get those new plants to start growing via mutation. i.e. You plant two Baker's Wheats near each other and when they are mature they can cross and make new plants grow in empty plots next to them.

Crossing two Baker's Wheat can result in Thumbcorn, Bakeberry, or more Baker's Wheat (which you already have). So you'd need to then harvest the mature Thumbcorn and Bakeberry to unlock their seeds.

[Satira]

Originally posted by Seth Abercromby:

Baker's Wheat doesn't drop the new seeds on being harvested, but if you have an empty plot with two mature baker's wheat adjacent to it, it has a small chance to develop into thumbcorn or one of the more rare mutations.

They don't? Because it does say so in the description that they will drop on maturity (at least, I'm pretty sure that's what I read). That's why it got me confused.

[Jadian]

Originally posted by SatiraNL:

Originally posted by Seth Abercromby:

Baker's Wheat doesn't drop the new seeds on being harvested

They don't? Because it does say so in the description that they will drop on maturity (at least, I'm pretty sure that's what I read). That's why it got me confused.

Any seed will say that they'll drop seeds at maturity, because that's what they do. The important part here is that plants will drop seeds for the plant itself--so, Baker's Wheat won't drop new seeds because it will only drop the Baker's Wheat seed you already have.

[sfnhltb]

Two Baker's Wheat adjacent to an open plot will sometimes produce another Baker's Wheat bud (not very helpful), more rarely a Thumbcorn bud, and extremely rarely a Bakeberry bud. The bullet point in "Garden Info" about "Unlock new seeds by harvesting mature plants" is warning you not to harvest these buds from new species immediately, but to wait for them to mature before harvesting them.

[Satira]

Originally posted by Jadian:

Originally posted by SatiraNL:

They don't? Because it does say so in the description that they will drop on maturity (at least, I'm pretty sure that's what I read). That's why it got me confused.

Any seed will say that they'll drop seeds at maturity, because that's what they do. The important part here is that plants will drop seeds for the plant itself--so, Baker's Wheat won't drop new seeds because it will only drop the Baker's Wheat seed you already have.

Yeah my bad, I thought it was a new seed hahaha. Thanks for the help!