Re: [ARCHIVED] Invisible Plants and mid air floating harvestables (on-Lot)

Okay, I ran a new game from Summer until Winter and tried a number of different things, like splicing, to see if I could figure out what is going on.

What seems to be happening, is that bushes turn invisible when they are out of season.

It does not seem to matter if the plant has been spliced or not - the season affects the base plant type.

This problem seems to affect only bushes - trees do not turn invisible.

Area effect actions seem to work on dormant plants as well. The floating produce on the invisible plants can be harvested if other plants in the planter are in season and bearing fruit. There was a bell pepper left behind, floating in the air, because there were no fall plants in the same planter box when I tried to harvest in the fall. When winter came, I was able to harvest the floating bell pepper by planting a winter plant and waiting for it to have flowers.

1st pic: Summer. Planted. Both the apple tree and the plantain tree grew to full size but only the plantain is producing fruit. The bushes are blackberry, bell pepper, basil, and parsley (all in season).

2nd pic: Fall. I have grafted plantains onto the apple tree and vice versa. The apple tree is in bloom (which is strange) and producing both kinds of fruit. There is a holly bush there now, a basil plant, and a grapevine. You can also clearly see the floating fruit and herbs - blackberry, bell pepper, and spinach. I had built a greenhouse around the plants because it started to rain and then snow (even though both of those options were turned off) and I was trying to get the plants into a water-starved state. That's when the spinach plant (a winter plant) grew. As soon as I took the walls down, the out-of-season plants disappeared, leaving their produce behind to float eerily in the air.

3rd pic: Winter. The bell pepper (a summer plant) is still floating serenely in the air. The apple tree is back to normal (no longer sporting blossoms) and the winter rose bushes have started to grow.

I was not able to reproduce the dripping water - but I suspect that had the plant been in need of water when it went dormant, that watering other plants in the planter box would have water the invisible plant also.

Trees especially, no spliced plants/trees here, are reverting to dirt piles. But, the plant progress is still showing.  Thought it was a season change thing at firat going g from summer to fall, but I'm in the middle of fall and all of a sudden a tree disappeared after planting a glow fruit next to it. My avocado tree says its in season.