@Liteblob Hello! I believe plants in the planted state, such as those in your images, can't be evolved. Plants must first sprout before you can evolve them. Hope this helps!
Edit: Here's an example of a mandrake sprout.
That's why I stated "And my idea that the 'not-grown-yet' state could be an option, contradicted with the other ... dirtpiles (not-yet-grown-veggies) that I could evolve.
My spinach and other veggies evolved while they were still lumps of dirt....
Although I must say, THAT part actually felt like the bug. How can a plant evolve that hasn't even grown/sprouted yet. 😅
@Liteblob Apologies. I missed the part about the just planted veggies evolving. Can you tell us which veggies did this? I just tried it on a bell pepper, potato, mushroom and spinach. None of them would evolve in the planted state.
Edit: I also tested this on tomato, garlic, green bean, black bean, carrot, taro root, onion and soy bean. I did not have the evolve option on any of those either.
Spinach, Basil, Grape, Dragon Fruit.
AND i found another plat, able to evolve, my Bluebell. Check the photos.
Could it, perhaps, be that I had some harvested units in my inventory, which were of "nice" quality already?
And by planting, it sort of automatically starts at the 'normal' quality, but evolves almost right away, because it's harvested in a 'nice' quality?
@Liteblob I can say for sure that if you harvest from an evolved plant, the harvest retains the quality. So if you plant a nice quality seed, it should start as a nice quality plant.
I did some more testing and found that I wasn't able to evolve any veggies in plant boxes. However, I did get the option when I moved them to the ground. I still was not able to evolve any trees including apple, plaintain, avocado, coconut and plasma fruit. I also was not able to evolve the bluebell for some reason so I tried some other flowers. I was not able to evolve daisy or rose either but I was able to evolve a begonia.
Even though I can't be sure, I don't think there's a bug here. It seems we have the ability to evolve some plants in a planted state but not others. I have no idea why though.
When you mentioned the difference between the ground vs the plant boxes, it might be an important detail that these particular plants AND trees are in the new ... 'gardening plots' that came with the new expansion Cottage Living.
@Liteblob Well, I caved and got CoL ... and it's all your fault! ;-) Half-joking. So, to clarify, all the plants I've tested so far are newly planted, never sprouted plants. Once CoL finished downloading and I could get back in the game, I went in and tested these plants again using both plain and mounded garden patches. Nothing changed. All the veggies tested had the option to evolve in planted/dirt pile state. None of the trees had the option, neither did some of the flowers; bluebell, daisy, orchid and rose. The flowers that did have the option were christmas rose, chrysanthemum, dahlia, begonia and chamomile.
Since it sort of sounds like the dirt pile bug only involves plants that had sprouted and reverted back to dirt pile, I'm still not convinced this is a bug. I tried looking for related articles or posts but was unable to find anthing. I do believe that trees were not meant to evolve while in the planted / dirt pile state while some of the other plants can. However, the reason for this eludes me.
@Liteblob Apologies for the confusion. Allow me to rephrase to say that I don't think what you're reporting is the same as the dirt pile bug that crin suggested. I just think that some newly planted plants (veggies, fruits and some flowers) have the option to evolve while in the planted state, but others (trees and some flowers) do not have that option. I could be wrong but I don't think that is a bug but just part of the design for some reason. Perhaps one of the community managers will investigate and let us know if it is by design.
