Please can someone explain weeds to me!!!!

[Yo Oliii]

Having issue with weeds...

Here is what im doing:

1 - Plough / Cultivate
2 - Sow / Fertilize 1/2
3 - Fertilize 2/2
4 - Harvest

No Weeding

Weeds never grow until after the crop is ready for harvest by which time i cant remove them. Also they go straight in at full grown 100%. No small weeds, just big weeds. I thought that weeds were to start growing in 2 stages shortly after a crop is sowed?

Also, if i try and prevent this and try and spray on the final stage of growth the AI has a fit and just thinks the job is completed (because there are no weeds) so im always losing 20% to damn weeds!

What am i doing wrong?!

[bleh]

i've found weeds a bit confusing as well, though ihave a different experience, i find my field will have weeds 3 or 4 times before crops are ready to harvest. if i run the weeder over them it will either not let me run it or not actually change the state from 'weeds' in the map to another state.

the sprayer seems to function as expected with herbacide


it also seems to me that if the weeds pop up after the crop is ready to harvest it doesnt seem to effect yield, but i havent been able to confirm this with any certainty yet

[Yo Oliii]

Originally posted by bleh:

i've found weeds a bit confusing as well, though ihave a different experience, i find my field will have weeds 3 or 4 times before crops are ready to harvest. if i run the weeder over them it will either not let me run it or not actually change the state from 'weeds' in the map to another state.

the sprayer seems to function as expected with herbacide


it also seems to me that if the weeds pop up after the crop is ready to harvest it doesnt seem to effect yield, but i havent been able to confirm this with any certainty yet

Okay thats also strange. I want to catch the weeds early without using the sprayer but they never appear but just bang straight in fully grown. I think it worked properly on my first harvest but now seems to be out of sync tbh. Shame because i like the idea of removing them

[Arrancar]

Weeds are sure quite weird.
For example they never appeared as well one time. I saved the game when the fields were fully grown with no weed. Came back and they suddenly had 100% weed.
Weeds seems to skip past their first growth stage a lot, especially when you speed up time. For example I had no weed in first 2 growth stages of my crops but in the third one(there are 4) there were already fully grown weeds. So I had to use herbicide.
Weeder is pretty much redundant besides contracts.

[Yo Oliii]

Originally posted by Arrancar:

Weeds are sure quite weird.
For example they never appeared as well one time. I saved the game when the fields were fully grown with no weed. Came back and they suddenly had 100% weed.
Weeds seems to skip past their first growth stage a lot, especially when you speed up time. For example I had no weed in first 2 growth stages of my crops but in the third one(there are 4) there were already fully grown weeds. So I had to use herbicide.
Weeder is pretty much redundant besides contracts.

Okay great so weeding is preety much bugged for the moment then... luckily this seems to be the only thing that isnt working properly.....

[Machin Shin]

same here weeds destroy ma game experience, at first its everywhere, ai fields are 90% only weeds, (look not good) und now it grows instant and i can do nothing against, LET ME REMOVE WEEDS

[Shroomworks]

Had the same treoubles with weeds as well. Seems to bea really bugged, which is why i turned them off completely. Unfortunately, the rest of the map despite weeds turned off, is still covered in weeds. I call it the "Pink Plague".

[sootysax]

Originally posted by Shroomworks:

Had the same treoubles with weeds as well. Seems to bea really bugged, which is why i turned them off completely. Unfortunately, the rest of the map despite weeds turned off, is still covered in weeds. I call it the "Pink Plague".

1.1.3 fixes the pink plague.. not sure if it fixes weeds going from 0 to 100% though

[Buzz]

It seems their growth stage happens at a specific time. I have been working fields (lime, plow) and half way through plowing something happens and the parts I have just plowed have weeds already.

[DirtyWorkz]

if You have fast or normal speed of growing crops then it happens. better put on slow then You always can remove weed before crop is big enough to get destroyed from tractor wheels at early stage

[LarryA]

Great YT videos on how to for FS 19 explainging weeds and more by Grizzly Bear Sims and Mr SealyP. Highly recomend watching all of them. Very detailed explanations including test. also a few explanations on how to fix.

Have A Great Day
LarryA

[cwattyeso]

I have recently started doing a YouTube let's play on the Estancia map and today I recorded a video where my starting two fields, which I cultivated, fertilised and seeded then fertilised as soon as the crops reached their first growth stage reach the point where the crops are at the dark green status stage on the map before going to the first yellow harvest stage. At this point the weeds sprung up, I'm fairly certain at their first stage. So I assumed I could use the weeder to remove them. After spending several minutes driving across both fields I checked the map and the weeds were still there. So can the weeder not remove weeds if the crops planted on the field have gone past their first growth stage?

I ended up having to lease a sprayer and buy some herbicde to kill the weeds on both my fields. That's pretty annoying and expensive in the opening of a game if the only way to reliably kill the weeds is with spraying, as the weeder doesn't seem to work or its not clearly explained when the weeder should be employed.

I also notice from looking at the map that none of the other AI Farmers seem to know how to do weed removal as every field apart from mine is showing as Pink on the map screen. Yet strangely I never get offered any contracts to do weeding for them. That would make investing in a sprayer in the early game worthwhile if you could do herbicide jobs.

[Mister White]

when it says first stage weeds, it means weeds that appear in the first or second growth stages. weeds that appear in the 3rd or 4th growth stages must be removed with pesticides.

[margalus]

Weeds just randomly pop up, they hit the whole map at one time.

There is nothing you can do to prevent them.

In the early stage of crop growth you use a weeder.

If it happens after the crops mature you have to use a sprayer with herbicide.

[Enorats]

I've had the same issue. I have 0% weeds the entire time, then as soon as my crop is mature the whole field goes to 100%.

[Biochemist]

My observations about weed:
It is not connected to plant growth, it is spawned oer whole map at the same time.
% of weed is totaly useless, if you have weed - 100%, if not - 0%, anything between means you used weader and left some patch of weed close (it is % of area around you covered by weed, not weed growth)
there is no other indication if you need spray or yust weeder than visual observation of weed plants, map and % are the same no mather the weed growth state