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

[wildredchild]

Come to think of it, I think you may be right Pam.

[TheCub]

If you feed books or fish to an omni plant, the results will always be identical regardless of omni plant quality. I've fed perfect deathfish to both an outstanding and a horrifying omni plant, and I harvested perfect deathfish from both.

Fruits and vegetables, on the other hand, are affected by omni plant quality. Here are some examples I found:

Fed normal apple to outstanding omni plant – harvested great and excellent apples
Fed perfect apple to nice omni plant – harvested very nice and great apples
Fed perfect apple to horrifying omni plant – harvested putrid apples (this could be helpful for the bad apple opportunity)

It seems that if the quality of what you feed the plant is better or worse than the plant quality, the end result will be closer to (but not the same as) the plant quality.

[Pam]

Great information, Cub!  Thanks for sharing.  I've been wondering what the point is of different qualities of Omni plants and it sounds like you've got it figured out.

[RaShCl]

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.

Ah, I see. This was 1 of the questions I wanted to get answered, but still have one about quality levels.

The guide says you get 1 default level in quality of the produce. So I assume that with the green thumb trait, when I plant a NORMAL, in this case a lettuce,
it will give me NICE Lettuces, +1 default quality level?

The second part of my question is,  if the above is true that would mean that if I don't talk at all to a plant it can only give NICE instead of NORMAL, right? But all my lettuces  planted
had NICE and VERY NICE lettuces, so +2 levels of quality. So where does the second +1 came from then since I don't talk to them?

And even stranger is the fact that all my NORMAL tomato plants I also planted only had the NICE tomato quality so only +1 all 5 I planted. So that would be normal with the default +1 quality level due to Green Thumb trait.

So, I am puzzled since according to the Green Thumb all my lettuces and tomatoes should be only NICE.

Sorry if what I just typed sounds a bit strange and maybe boring. It may be even answered already, so if it is I apoligize for asking the same thing.

Thanks in advance.

BTW, I never knew that there was so much extra in the Sims 3 skill until I came across your site. It makes playing Sims even better so, a big thanks for the guides you put up.

Sincerely
Jean Paul Massaut
Groningen, Groningen
The Netherland's

[Edited for typos and punctuation. Please use Preview before posting to avoid excessive editing.  Thanks!  -Pam]

[blulightin5]

If you feed books or fish to an omni plant, the results will always be identical regardless of omni plant quality. I've fed perfect deathfish to both an outstanding and a horrifying omni plant, and I harvested perfect deathfish from both.

Fruits and vegetables, on the other hand, are affected by omni plant quality. Here are some examples I found:

Fed normal apple to outstanding omni plant – harvested great and excellent apples
Fed perfect apple to nice omni plant – harvested very nice and great apples
Fed perfect apple to horrifying omni plant – harvested putrid apples (this could be helpful for the bad apple opportunity)

It seems that if the quality of what you feed the plant is better or worse than the plant quality, the end result will be closer to (but not the same as) the plant quality.

That isn't quite true. I have fed perfect items to my normal omni plant and they come back perfect.

[Pam]

That isn't quite true. I have fed perfect items to my normal omni plant and they come back perfect.

But what were the items?  Are you saying you fed perfect fruit to a normal Omni and got perfect back?  Or if it's fish you're talking about, we've already agreed on that one.

[Pam]

So where does the second +1 came from then since I don't talk to them?

I'm not sure anyone knows exactly why the plants will sometimes increase +2 in quality.  I've seen it happen for me, too, even if I don't talk to the plants.  Perhaps your Sim is taking very good care of the plants! 

[Metropolis Man]

I'm not sure anyone knows exactly why the plants will sometimes increase +2 in quality.

Make that +3. I just had a pretty rare occurrence in the Baby Boomer tourney with a Sim starting with a Nice plant from the Grocery store. The Sim had level 10 Gardening and Green Thumb and when I hovered over a couple of the plants they were Excellent. Some of the fruit from that plant might turn out Outstanding, so that would be a whopping 4 jumps from Nice.

[aws_137]

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.

Ah, I see. This was 1 of the questions I wanted to get answered, but still have one about quality levels.

The guide says you get 1 default level in quality of the produce. So I assume that with the green thumb trait, when I plant a NORMAL, in this case a lettuce,
it will give me NICE Lettuces, +1 default quality level?

The second part of my question is,  if the above is true that would mean that if I don't talk at all to a plant it can only give NICE instead of NORMAL, right? But all my lettuces  planted
had NICE and VERY NICE lettuces, so +2 levels of quality. So where does the second +1 came from then since I don't talk to them?

And even stranger is the fact that all my NORMAL tomato plants I also planted only had the NICE tomato quality so only +1 all 5 I planted. So that would be normal with the default +1 quality level due to Green Thumb trait.

So, I am puzzled since according to the Green Thumb all my lettuces and tomatoes should be only NICE.

Sorry if what I just typed sounds a bit strange and maybe boring. It may be even answered already, so if it is I apoligize for asking the same thing.

Thanks in advance.

BTW, I never knew that there was so much extra in the Sims 3 skill until I came across your site. It makes playing Sims even better so, a big thanks for the guides you put up.

Sincerely
Jean Paul Massaut
Groningen, Groningen
The Netherland's

[Edited for typos and punctuation. Please use Preview before posting to avoid excessive editing.  Thanks!  -Pam]

Super Green Thumb lifetime reward perhaps? I don't know why sometimes, from a single Excellent plant, I get Outstanding and Perfect harvest from a single harvest. It happens.

[Edited for double quoting. - Swede]

[blulightin5]

That isn't quite true. I have fed perfect items to my normal omni plant and they come back perfect.

But what were the items?  Are you saying you fed perfect fruit to a normal Omni and got perfect back?  Or if it's fish you're talking about, we've already agreed on that one.

It was fruit that I feed it.

[Pam]

It was fruit that I feed it.

Ok.  That has already been addressed in a recent post.

[blulightin5]

Ahh, ok. Thanks.

[RaShCl]

I was wondering, when do I need to talk to a plant so I can increase the harvested level by 1 ?

Because I have the the green thumb trait.

Just before they give fruit
or
directly after I planted them?

And secondly, how often? 1 time or more?

[kiko94]

I only knew that it raises the social need bar, I think before it starts producing, any time befor is good

[simsally]

According to the guide... 
"If your Sim has the Green Thumb trait, they can talk to plants to increase the quality of the harvested produce by one level. It will also by default give one more quality level. Super Green Thumbs (a Lifetime Reward) will bestow one quality level to the plant when it's first planted."
Check out the gardening section of the guide here  http://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/skills/gardening/perfect-plants.php