[SOLVED] Potatoes didn't grow in 6 days. (Died after 8)

[Yatagan]

[SOLVED] Turns out I'm an idiot and there are only 28 days in a season. I thought there were 30 for some reason. I planted without enough time for them to grow before season's end.

(I understand that crops die when seasons change, my confusion is the extended growth time)

I planted some potatoes in the 22nd. It says it takes them 6 days. It turned to summer after the 30th and the potatoes had not grown yet, and were ruined, costing me a large amount of money. My question is why did they not grow in the expected 6 days? The only thing I can think of is that I didn't water them for 2 days as I was upgrading my watering can and it did not rain.

Does not watering them cause them not to grow that day, or did something else happen? Or was this a bug? It's kind of screwed me over, I had a lot invested in this final batch of potatoes. :(

[Ansalem1]

Because the season changed. Crops die when the season changes.

[Yatagan]

I understand that part, my confusion is to why they did not grow to harvestable in 6 days like they should have. (And all my potatoes earlier in that season did) I planted with 8 days left in the season, they should've finished by then.

[PsychGamer]

As far as I'm aware, if you miss watering them they do not grow that day; which makes sense, because you're supposed to water them daily. Also, yes, if the season changes crops from the previous season die.

[Alice]

yeah if you dont water them daily they wont change at all so for them to finish growing in six days you have to water them for six days. I usually wait for the weather man to say it will rain tomorrow and I upgrade my watering can that day and after the rainy day end and a new one begins the watering can is done up grading. Also you can build sprinklers so hat you dont have to water anymore,

[Hazel]

I've also noticed that if you plant in the afternoon the plants take an extra day.

[Elegant Caveman]

Seasons last 28 days, not 30. The 28th day is your last chance to harvest a season's crops.

When a crop says it takes 6 days to grow, that's -after- you plant them, so that's 7 days total if you include the day you plant them. Well, it's 6 days of growth (including the day you plant them) and you can harvest them the next day (so a total of 7 days from planting to harvest).

In this case, since you planted them on the 22nd, they would have been ready on the 28th (the last day of the season) if you had watered them every day.

Not watering them -does- stop crops from growing, so this is what went wrong in your case.

Double bad luck for being at the end of the season: if you were in the middle, you could have just watered your crops again and finished growing them.

When the seasons change, all crops that can only grow in one specific season will be dead on the first day of the new season (the only multi-season crop I know of is corn, which can grow during both Summer and Fall; corn doesn't die when Summer turns to Fall).

[Yatagan]

Originally posted by Elegant Caveman:

Seasons last 28 days, not 30. The 28th day is your last chance to harvest a season's crops.

This is what got me. I'm an idiot. Despite the calendar clearly only having 28 days on it for some reason it was burned in my brain that they had 30. I knew those last 5 days went way too fast!

Case solved. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lol.

EDIT: Seasons are 30 days in Harvest Moon, which I played for years and years long ago. I think this is what burned 30 days into my mind and I just didn't pay attention.