When Should I Talk to Plants to Get the Harvest Quality Up 1 Level

[dannyr783]

Hello guys, i'm new here and have a question about gardening.

The guide said that if you talk to your plants as a green thumb it will boost the plant quality by one stage. I have constantly talked to my plants but they refuse to do this! Does it only take effect when they get harvested? Thanks

And also, how much life fruit will i get per harvest on one plant, and how long will it take to re-grow?

Thanks for the help

[jmz95]

That is correct, they will only be one quality higher in the harvest. Also, it may not happen every harvest, nor for every fruit you pick. For life fruits, you get approx. 2 per bush I believe.

[Swede1992]

I think that if you talk to your money trees they go up in quality faster than usual (the actual money tree is supposed to go up in quality anyway for those that don't know it). I've not done any formal testing on this, but have had so much experience that I confidently believe this is true.

[Saltypaws]

Every time you harvest the money tree it goes up a notch, never really talked to them though, guess could try that though.

[blulightin5]

Gotta love those money trees. I have 6 or them (soon to be 9). Now I don't need a job.

[Saltypaws]

In Riverview, there are three spots where special seeds spawn, when my sim picks them up, usually there around 5, three are usually money tree seeds, one is deathflower and the one is a life fruit seed.  Sometimes it is the other way around, so I accumulated quite a few money trees and life fruit plants.  I have talked to the plants and really not noticed any difference, but I probably wasn't paying attention on the upgrade, will have to do that.  Not sure if the location of the seeds is different for every bodies game, but I can write where they are and I guess we can find out.

[Swede1992]

Hmm, that's funny. I seem to always end up with death flowers or flame fruits. If I want life fruits or money trees (of which I still have plenty of) I really have to work for them!

[blulightin5]

I have a special seed spawner near my house, so I don't have to look that hard for any seed.

[Pam]

One of our members put together a handy map for finding Special Seeds in Riverview.  Look in this thread.

[Saltypaws]

Oh cool, thanks.

[Carl]

That is correct, they will only be one quality higher in the harvest. Also, it may not happen every harvest, nor for every fruit you pick. For life fruits, you get approx. 2 per bush I believe.

Right, toss in the random variation and you might not see the desired result, but it should be there regardless... and maybe there are factors unexplained such as being close to going up another level in quality but not quite reaching it despite your efforts. It's generally a good idea and for a loner Sim it's awesome for keeping social needs met. Just focus on your good plants with this action to avoid wasting time. I'm not talking to tomatoes so much, more like life fruit plants

[dannyr783]

Yeah thanks for the responses people. One other question:

After like 4 30+ week games i finally got the omni plant, does it go up in quality like the money tree does? Does it even matter what quality it is?

[Pam]

I'm not sure if talking to an Omni plant will do anything.  I've never noticed a result.  It always seems to me that they stay the quality of the seed that grow them.  And I don't think it matters because a bad Omni seems to produce the same as a great Omni.

[wildredchild]

I'm not sure if talking to an Omni plant will do anything.  I've never noticed a result.  It always seems to me that they stay the quality of the seed that grow them.  And I don't think it matters because a bad Omni seems to produce the same as a great Omni.

Unless you feed the Omni fruit, then the harvest will be several "qualities" lower then what you fed it.

[Pam]

Unless you feed the Omni fruit, then the harvest will be several "qualities" lower then what you fed it.

But I don't think that's because of the quality of the Onmi, is it?  Isn't that just the nature of feeding fruit to it?