Please use this thread going forward: Quality of plants not/very slowly progressing/ No evolve | EA Forums - 11945515
I might have some more insight on this issue. It seems to me that there's a few problems here. I've also tested with no mods and they occur.
1. Fertilizing the garden sometimes the fertilizer doesn't stick. I can tell my sim to fertilize the same plant over and over sometimes it just doesn't stick. I do line up 2 or 3 at a time, I don't know if that matters since they perform the animation over the plant I assume it's handled. Also my plants are all in 2x2 planters in a line (as close as they can be) indoors. It would be nice if I could fertilize the whole box instead of single plants.
2. I've noticed 3 separate times now plants showing the evolve sparkle, but then the sparkle vanishes and they're back to 2/3rds or 1/2 the way towards evolving. This always happens between excellent and magnificent (or perhaps that's just where I personally am sticking) which means nothing progresses past excellent unless I am watching and catch it and my sim gets herself over there in time. It's VERY subtle.
3. When I fertilize plants within a sim hour many want to evolve but if I don't make it in time the plants evolve thing vanishes.
4. Bees and fertilizer appear to have no effect because of the vanishing evolve status (It's VERY SUBTLE, you wouldn't even notice the sparklies in time if you weren't watching only the garden)....however so far bees have only triggered evolve on a handful of plants in my garden which suggests that maybe some plants are broken and others not.
5. Hiring a gardener and keeping the plants tended appears to have no effect. I have noticed that the plants don't appear to have wet soil a lot in my game unless I specifically water all versus tend garden.
I forced my rose to evolve into magnificent and it's not moved an inch past half way towards the next level, despite fertilizing it twice and also despite being loved by bees and tended daily. It evolved to that point and has not budged since. I really hope this info helps.
Wow. I haven't had ANY of that occur on mine. And I use gardening all the time.
It's very annoying. I've done a game repair and folder refresh as well on multiple occasions. Also you wouldn't notice the evolve vanishing, it is so subtle you would think you were crazy. I only noticed because my rose finally had the sparkles. I clicked on it to be sure and evolve was there but I wanted to finish what my sim was doing with the bees first..when she was done I clicked the rose and it was gone. If I hadn't been checking the rose every time my sim was gardening and gardening at that exact moment I'd never have seen it. It only flashed once or twice before vanishing.
Yes to all of those. I even started a new household in CAS and went and harvested the old one (to start with better harvest). I definitely have checked without cc because you shouldn't be reporting anything here without checking that first. I have started new saves but I did import my old family from the gallery with the harvest on them. I've started a couple of new saves. This broke for me with one of the updates but I can't remember which one. It used to be pretty frequent that plants needed evolving so much so that I got an evolve all mod because it was annoying LOL. I removed that last week to double check it wasn't causing any issues though and no changes. Also played for two seasons (spring and summer) without mods after my refresh.
Theoretically it could be a save issue but I think it's a game one because new saves only evolve up to excellent as well. Wish I could figure it out.
