A way to force orange pumpkins

yeah small orange pumpkin was the one Agnes was finally pleased with when i did that errand

when i got orange pumpkins i used no fertilizers and it was summer season which might be the key but also idk it could just be coincidence too

+ might help chances if you plant several and don't try to get them grow big

If it doesn't work out with orange pumpkin you could also try making something with pumpkin first or taking extra errand from agnes just in case its some speech bubble thing stuck

Thank you for chiming in, I'll give that a try, skip forward to summer (currently day 1 of spring) and see if that helps.

I currently have three patches with what looks like four, four and two pumpkins. Looks like I'll have to plaster the whole lot with pumpkins to improve my chances.

In a long past save my Rock Star was able to grow a ginormous orange pumpkin. Made pie out of it. Since then, it's been white pumpkins. But I haven't had any Sim garden in quite some time.

"Rock Star grows giant pumpkin in rare color" should have added fame to your celeb.

(I'm done planting my next batch of pumpkins, will post pics)

Old-New-Henford, Reed homestead, around 3 a.m.

Gavin Reed (31, Aquatic Ecologist (ingame: Marine-Biologist), Ambitious, Goofball, Cat Lover) has great plans, he wants to become Mayor of Finchwick. Unfortunately his player has degreed that to achieve this without actually entering the politics career, Gavin has to max out his career (done) and fulfill three errands per villager, one of which needs to be their unique errand. The only objective Gavin hasn’t fulfilled so far is to grow an orange pumpkin for Agnes Crumplebottom.

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While his loved ones are sound asleep, Gavin rises and leaves the master bedroom. That’s nothing out of the ordinary, right? Just following “nature’s call”?

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Next we see Gavin fully clad standing next to the homestead’s weather controller. Summer would be nice, but to program the machine for a change of seasons 8 skillpoints are required. Being spellcasters, the Reeds don’t bother with Handyness overmuch, so he doesn’t have that.

Note: I do have MCCC, but I must not cheat here, because the need for summer weather is Gavin’s, not a story requirement. Basically I’m allowed to cheat as the director/game master, but my sims are not.

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With summer still being a whole season ahead, there’s still the other option to just grow many, many pumpkins. So Gavin takes out one of the seed cans he has purchased earlier and starts planting…

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Meanwhile the sun has come up and in the kitchen Daniel, Gavin’s husband, is making pancakes with yesterday’s milk, expecting nothing out of the ordinary to happen today. Gavin will soon come in with fresh milk to drink for everyone and the usual harvest of mushrooms.

“Let’s go meet him on the porch, shall we, little mouse?”

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Daniel steps out into the porch… only to see pumpkin patches stretching into every direction. The whole backyard has gotten dug over and made into one giant pumpkin nursery. To little Peggy this sea of saplings looks even bigger than it does to her father – the whole world will be covered in pumpkins soon!

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Peggy: “Daddy’s lost it, right, papa?”

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Daniel: “Gavin! Sweetest! What are you doing…?”

Gavin: “Securing votes!!!”

Daniel: “Pumpkins won’t vote for you, though.”

Gavin: “Will, too, indirectly. One of these will get me Agnes’ vote. Now don’t just stand there gape-jawed, and pass around the fast-grow fertilizer! I spent 750 simoleons on the shit. Ey, it may literally be shit.”

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This used to be our backyard. 37 patches for a maximum of 148 pumpkins. And if that doesn’t work, there’s still empty open space on the farm. (Planting and fertilizing was finished 12:30 that day.)

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As for Gavin, well, that just now wasn’t how you talk to your husband whom you’ve vowed to cherish and protect. Especially not your Hot-Headed husband who is also a spellcaster.

Daniel: “Don’t fret, your pumpkins will be fine. Soon as the sun warms you up, you’ll start thawing and the water will slowly trickle into the earth. I imagine that’s like a SPA treatment for the plants!”

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He's learning, though, and has started upgrading the bathroom fixtures as an I'm sorry gesture (also to level handyness in case we'll need it to be summer).

@EnkiSchmidt , had to bookmark this in hope to find out does Gavin get his orange pumpkin or not :D Brilliant garden and hilarious post :D

@EnkiSchmidt That was truly hilarious! My favorite line: Peggy: “Daddy’s lost it, right, papa?” Yes he has, little girl, quite thoroughly.

"EnkiSchmidt;d-1003231" wrote:
Is there a way (cheat, mod, fertilizer) to ensure a harvest of orange pumpkins? Mine only ever turn out green or white.

The problem is that the one village errand from Agnes requires the player to harvest a homegrown pumpkin, but she doesn't accept green or white ones of any size. I researched the problem and it seems to be common, but there are reports that orange pumpkins will work. (Same with canning, by the way.)

Did you get your orange pumpkin?

I use the UI Cheats Extension mod and I almost always get orange pumpkins. I right click on the patch and select healthy, select whatever size harvest you want, select blooming (can't remember the exact name for it but ready for harvesting). This is three separate steps.

It's the only way I get orange pumpkins. If I let them grow on their own, they're always white.

Yes, I got them, more than I had bargained for in fact. A whopping 56 of my 148 pumpkins came out orange, and that after never before having harvested one before in this save. It's mind-boggling, but mission accomplished. (I don't have UI extension, but the ingame cheat menu has similar options via shift-clicking with testingcheats enabled. Just no color picker.)

The next morning the backyard looked like a lot of work.

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And indeed the couple took until 16:00 to finish tending to the pumpkins (and two cows, the bees and the mushroom/berry garden).

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Trifles like changing into the correct outfits became meaningless, the sims ate in their outerwear and brushed the cows in their sleepwear. On the upside, after teaching him a lesson in politeness, the Family Oriented Daniel had forgiven his husband and was now supportive of his cause. Not only did he help with the gardening (Daniel is the better gardener between these two anyway, since he also Loves Nature), he also made sure to serve Gavin’s favorite dishes.

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Daniel: “Say, didn’t you befriend wild rabbits soon after we moved to Henford? Can’t they, I dunno, eat the weeds or something?”

I had indeed unlocked the rabbit stump, but in the beginning only a single rabbit spawned, that didn’t do much work. Only after the pumpkins were all fully grown did three more rabbit emerge – apparently the solo one had decided that this was a good place to found a family.

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But even though the original rabbit wasn’t a good eater, its presence was invaluable to keep Peggy entertained. Peggy, Argus and the bunny were pretty much on their own those days…

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…what is of course no way to handle a toddler, so the couple asked Gavin’s parents to take in the girl for a week or so. The elder (but not yet elders in game terms) Reeds were living next door, so Peggy wouldn’t be out of the world. (And at the far end of the neighborhood lives Gavin’s brother, that would have been an option, too.)

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Peggy: “It’s politics, granny!”

Well, in a way it really was.

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After Peggy and Argus had moved out, Gavin prepared for ramping up his pumpkin enterprise to an industrial scale. If this batch wouldn’t yield an orange one, Gavin would cover the whole lot in pumpkin patches and Daniel, the village school teacher, would recruit six of his students to help with the gardening during summer break. The Reeds certainly had the space and the provisions to provide for six farmhands, but just in case time would be an issue, they also prepared Potions of Plentiful needs to feed to their workers. (Maybe with this attitude they should recruit convicts, not teens?)

On a sidenote, it is totally a rumor only that Gavin shouted “Muwahahahaha!” while making these plans.

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The first pumpkins matured… white and green ones for starters, but very soon one patch ripened to orange, too! I was happy, but I had also taken a fancy to the industrial scale farm, so I’ll certainly play that in another household, most likely the former Watson farm that is currently uninhabited.

And now imagine my surprise when my “rare” orange pumpkins were joined by more and more siblings! In fact, orange was the most common color in this harvest:

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Final results: 56 Orange, 52 Green and 40 White, so I assume each color is one-third likely to appear.