Dead garden plants

[ShadedHunter]

This post is something to provide information to all the other "scumbags" out there. It's not me asking for help or advice.

The plants in your garden have a set life cycle. One stage of that life cycle is "old". The plant will be starting to look sickly. As of the time I have posted this there is no way to cure or rejuvenate the plant that I have found. The next stage for the plant is death. I haven't planted everything yet, but this occurs to everything I have tested so far at some point. In other words, your garden will eventually die off even if you take perfect care of it. Be warned.

[MonkeyGamesVR]

Thanks for the info, apreciate it. It's like irl eventually everything dies :)

[Badger]

Most vegetables are annuals. This means you need to replant them every year. So this isn't really surprising. However, I would be interested to know if you have tested fruit trees yet ... pears, apples, olives, etc.? They grow over many years so SHOULDN'T suffer the same fate.

[ShadedHunter]

Originally posted by Badger:

Most vegetables are annuals. This means you need to replant them every year. So this isn't really surprising. However, I would be interested to know if you have tested fruit trees yet ... pears, apples, olives, etc.? They grow over many years so SHOULDN'T suffer the same fate.

I have tested cherries, apples, and pears. All grow old and die, just takes longer. Lemons are in the process of being tested. Haven't found fig seeds, and don't know if olives can be grown yet. Haven't thought to try getting seeds.

[ShadedHunter]

It just occurred to me to point out that different plants have different life spans. Lettuce and spinach were the first things to die off for me. Corn and tomatoes lasted the longest, apart from the fruit trees.

[MonkeyGamesVR]

Originally posted by ShadedHunter:

It just occurred to me to point out that different plants have different life spans. Lettuce and spinach were the first things to die off for me. Corn and tomatoes lasted the longest, apart from the fruit trees.

Will you be focusing on the corn and tomatoes because they last longer? I can asume yes but ofoucrse your in the course to fining it out. And do they need more water then the others?

[ShadedHunter]

Originally posted by MonkeyGamesVR:

Originally posted by ShadedHunter:

It just occurred to me to point out that different plants have different life spans. Lettuce and spinach were the first things to die off for me. Corn and tomatoes lasted the longest, apart from the fruit trees.

Will you be focusing on the corn and tomatoes because they last longer? I can asume yes but ofoucrse your in the course to fining it out. And do they need more water then the others?

I've been getting enough rain lately that I haven't been watering. What I'm looking at doing now is ripping out the dead stuff and planting the stuff I haven't tested out.

[MonkeyGamesVR]

I wanted to go gardening myself but left it for now I need to just go ahead and do it maby.
I don't no if it's worth to do it still in EA, set up a whole guarden and devs decide to do the overhaul and *poof* garden gone. I just wait and look see.

[ShadedHunter]

If you're trying to do it for food I would say it's not worth it. It feels to me like the chances of getting anything edible from the plants is way too low and they don't live long enough. On the other hand, starting now could potentially shoot up your gardening skill. Potentially increasing your yields later. If things actually follow what the tool tip says.

[oynlengeymer]

would make sense in future than all crops we stumble upon are kinda rotted/unmaintained.

Said this before but in loot table shout be rotten corn/cabbage etc, since you see it on the model but searching says its empty

Would be good to make most these fields inedible. but an occasional good find. would push the farming more

[Krolik Zanuda]

thanks for the info
I've tried gardening twice so far and both times the amount of fiddling required to get it going versus what I get makes it not worth it.

[Beda]

As the great poet in one of the greatest work of art once said. It's the circle of lifeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[ShadedHunter]

Originally posted by Beda:

As the great poet in one of the greatest work of art once said. It's the circle of lifeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Agreed. The plants getting old and dieing isn't something that I personally have a problem with, now that I know what's going on. Scum is getting marketed as hyper realistic, and this characteristic of the garden plants makes sense with that.

That said though, between the accelerated in game time and the plants having a natural life span I think it would be a good idea to consider either extending that life span a bit or doing a little bit of an increase in the chance for food to be found on the plant. I'll do an edit on this comment when I log in to give the size of my garden, but the vast majority of the things I planted never produced.

Edit: Current garden plot is 10x6. Giving me a total of 60 plants.