Watching Dragon Fruit Becoming More Valuable on the Vine

[Jagid]

I think it might also do it in my Sims' inventories.

I have made hundreds of thousands of simoleans gardening so I figured this financially motivated question would work well in the Money Making forum. If I am wrong let me know. I can post wherever the community prefers.

As I scan fruit on the vine and in my Sims' inventories, I think I see it growing in value over short periods of time (perhaps daily but I'm not sure).

I noticed a bug post reply by Carl in the corrections forum (http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,20926.msg390512.html#msg390512) about bugged produce values and I think that may actually just be that the prices vary so much from fruit to fruit. Again, I'm just growing dragon fruit (and making a killing). If you scan through your large stacks you'll notice a wide range of values arranged in bunches.

Lay out individual pieces of produce on the ground and you'll see each piece stays the same price but the game seems to re-sort the items in the stack (or something) each time you pull a fruit. Do the math on the stack value divided by the number in the stack and you can see your average price per fruit. I was freaked out that I was getting ripped off by a bug until I noticed I was still selling stacks worth 30-40k (harvesting 28 perfect dragon fruit plants whenever I get around to it).

I am still unsure but I think the fruit grows in value as it sits. I've had individual fruits worth 545 simoleans. I just watched an 80 simolean fruit (I made a special note of the location once I started to wonder about the value changing) increase in value to 141 simoleans in a day or two. Another fruit on the side toward the right side of my house on the same bush is now worth 192.

I held on to a large stack of dragon fruit in the fridge so my Sims' son could sell them and get the fortune aspiration once he could access it. After a couple days I didn't have any 80 simolean fruits in the stack. They had all increased in value. Or at least that's what I think happened. I have memory problems and take meds that make me stupid and I don't trust my results.

Is anyone else seeing these things increase in value in their inventories or on the vines?

[Jagid]

OK I have a dragon fruit in my Sim's inventory worth over a thousand simoleans. I've never seen one worth that much on the vine. Is no one else seeing them get more valuable over time?

By the way, my Sim family has made more than a million simoleans gardening in less than a few Sim weeks.

[Playalot]

I have blackberries that do the same. In one of my games I have 99+ blackberries that are nearly all over $1000 simoleons each! 

[CoolCafe]

So keeping them in the fridge increases value. Is this confirmed?

[Playalot]

It's actually a bug that affects all harvestables. Mostly when you travel with them in your sims inventory. Harvestables will become more expensive as their quality increases, that part is normal, but they shouldn't increase after harvest... but they do! That's the bug part.

[grimsoul]

Yeah, you can make a lot with it. I have 16 perfect Quill plants and when I harvest them all they will sell for around 30,000 but if I keep them in my sims Inventory until the next harvest is ready I can usually sell them for about 250,000.
But if I keep them in my inventory when I make the next harvest they lose they're value. The whole stack will sell for about 30,000 again even tho I have twice as many now. If I keep them all until the next harvest they're back up to around 250,000 again even tho I still have twice as many as before. So it's kind of weird. So sell off your inventory before you harvest again.

[CoolCafe]

Thanks, cool. That's an easy way to make some cash.