Botanist too slow?

[Cuna]

So the setup is the yellow pots, racks with the "best" lights.
8 plants.
My botanist cannot keep up with the growth.
There is always 5-6 fully grown plants just sitting there waiting.

anyone else having this "issue"?
maybe its a good one to have but i rather it be the other way around.

2 addatives, green and orange. NO speedgrow.

ideas?

[EliteForceQc]

I give a single botanist 6 plants with no additives and best soil. She can bearly keep up the production.

I can imagine 8 plants with 2 additives each .. there is no way botanist keep up.

[Drillbo Baggins]

Yeah today I tried the botanist and about 10 minutes later I just fired them because of how miserably slow they are. I just grow all my stuff manually. Gives me more gameplay that way anyways.

[poop man]

If your botanists could use the sprinklers/soil pourers it'd go a lot smoother i think

[K!]

i have 3 botonists and 24 plants and they do the same thing, get drying racks maybe if you dont have them, one rack per pot is best but i use 2 racks for 4 and can still produce 2 plants out of each pot a day which is more than enough. drying racks might also make other operations slower because you have to dry them yourself (im not sure if handlers will dry for you, i should look into that) Good Luck resolving your issues and i hope this helps!

[Iridescent Octopus]

I normally do 4 pots and 4 dry racks in the sweatshop and have them just output into shelves then pick up when I need. It isn't efficient but it's cheap to pay them and I no longer need the money. When you get to cocoa leaves then they work more slowly and get everything done.

[Dailao]

Originally posted by EliteForceQc:

I give a single botanist 6 plants with no additives and best soil. She can bearly keep up the production.

I can imagine 8 plants with 2 additives each .. there is no way botanist keep up.

Yellow pot and the best light ?

[Cuna]

Originally posted by poop man:

If your botanists could use the sprinklers/soil pourers it'd go a lot smoother i think

hopefully they will be able to in future patches

[Azmael]

Originally posted by Dailao:

Originally posted by EliteForceQc:

I give a single botanist 6 plants with no additives and best soil. She can bearly keep up the production.

I can imagine 8 plants with 2 additives each .. there is no way botanist keep up.

Yellow pot and the best light ?

Once you open "black market" you get better equipment than grow tents.

[Bakasura]

Originally posted by EliteForceQc:

I give a single botanist 6 plants with no additives and best soil. She can bearly keep up the production.

I can imagine 8 plants with 2 additives each .. there is no way botanist keep up.

A handling 8 woven pots with full spectrum lights and no additives can not keep up at all. There is a slim chance they might barely keep up with the water retaining pots but additives are out of the question.
I tried to hire a second botanist to handle the additives but pots can only have one botanist working on them.

[D4WJD 💲T/B/S CS2 SKINS💲]

Make sure your not using the air pots, they drain water too quickly and the botanists keep coming back to their first 2 pots to water them again. i recommend using the pot which is cheaper than botanist called moisture preserving pot i think. I assigned 1 botanist to manage 6 pots but they can definetly do more

[Induced Apathy]

Originally posted by D4WJD 💲T/B/S CS2 SKINS💲:

Make sure your not using the air pots, they drain water too quickly and the botanists keep coming back to their first 2 pots to water them again. i recommend using the pot which is cheaper than botanist called moisture preserving pot i think. I assigned 1 botanist to manage 6 pots but they can definetly do more

yea air pots are the big issue if you attempt to use additives. i wouldn't bother with additives like fert if you use drying racks. i have no issue with a single botanist on 8 plants. you will have mountains of product. soil is also a waste just get the 10 dollar one time soil. tier 2 black soil pot with tier 1 $10 soil and 16 seeds will drown you in product within a day.

[Echo]

Originally posted by Dailao:

Originally posted by EliteForceQc:

I give a single botanist 6 plants with no additives and best soil. She can bearly keep up the production.

I can imagine 8 plants with 2 additives each .. there is no way botanist keep up.

Yellow pot and the best light ?

Probably Airpots and Full Spectrum lamps. which combined increase grow speed substantially. but is kind of wasted on Weed since it already grows so quickly, I save that particular combination for Coca plants, since that is a FAR slower growth time. if the game is additive in speed increase, Airpot +full spectrum is a 45% grow speed increase. You can get 2 harvests of weed in a single day just using the Full spectrums.