Springs Seeds and Deluxe Speed-Gro

[Crystal Purple]

I planted my Spring Seeds on the first day of spring using Pierre's Deluxe Speed-Gro and watered them that first day. It's now day 7 and they still haven't matured. The Wiki says they mature in seven days. With the Deluxe Speed-Gro, they should have matured within 5.25 days, meaning I expected to have mature plants on day 6. Any ideas on where the problem is? Is Pierre selling Snake Oil disguised as Deluxe Speed-Gro? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Wai]

I don't use fertilizer or speed grow on wild seeds, it does not seem to have any affect.

Just plant them on basic soil and keep them watered. They don't even need a scarecrow.

Keep rolling them over in the first year (while doing whatever planting, mining etc you would normally do) and sell all the gold plants, you can get to level 10 foraging and all iradium quality before the end of year one.

[Crystal Purple]

Wai, thanks for your quick response and the info. I didn't realize that the seasonal seeds don't need scarecrows. Good to know.

Now, on the subject of the Speed-Gro, boy, is my face red!! When the seeds matured on Day 8, I harvested them and then looked closely at the soil. Apparently, I had forgotten to add the Speed-Gro before I planted them. Okaaayyyy, that's one mystery solved, and I apologize profusely to Pierre for defaming his good name.

[Amberia]

Use scarecrow on the valueable plants or multi-produce plants. You don't necessarily need it for normal 1 time harvest plant(like parsnip or potato). The baseline of using scarecrow is "can I afford losing this seed?".

[Wai]

With agriculturist and delux speedgrow the increase is significant. Example: Melons take 12 days after planting so, in fact, 13 days total wich equals 2 crops in a season. With agriculturist and delux sg. they harvest in 9 days total, so, 3 harvests in a season.

With agreculturist and no fertilizer I can get 4 harvests of wild seeds in a season if I want to, so sg. would be a waste if it works on wild seeds. I am not sure that it does.

Don't use speedgrow on reharvestable crops such as coffee, berries, corn etc. It has no effect on repeat harvests. Use the best fertilizer to increase the quality of all the crops. Speedgrow would get you an extra harvest of some crops, such as strawberries, but, the loss of quality by not using the other fertilzer more or less wipes out the gain.

The real "mistress" in the fertilizer choices is the retaining soil. Odd patches of watered ground take little from your work.