Gardening - can plant quality be cheated?

@Simmerville Have you patched and opened your game again yet? I'm just curious if the inventory problem was fixed for you. Hope so!

@sirguylittle Ah, okay that explains it then. I'm guessing since your most current update is 1.52, that you perhaps don't have the gardening update that was implemented just prior to Seasons. The latest update is 1.58.63.1010. Also, the Seasons EP does affect gardening in the game. You are correct also about only needing to be in the neighborhood for plants to be ready for harvest at the designated time.

@SilentKitty Thanks for the heads-up about the odds of getting grafted rare plants being increased in the latest patch for those who might not know. That's one of the updates in the patch that thrills me the most! You're welcome about the Sage, I found out through a post by @mcrudd in her gardening thread. :)

"Karababy52;c-17310649" wrote:
@sirguylittle Ah, okay that explains it then. I'm guessing since your most current update is 1.52, that you perhaps don't have the gardening update that was implemented just prior to Seasons. The latest update is 1.58.63.1010. Also, the Seasons EP does affect gardening in the game. You are correct also about only needing to be in the neighborhood for plants to be ready for harvest at the designated time.

1.52 is the June 2019 patch, immediately before the one that brought in the new look and well after the Seasons patch. (I can see the changes brought in by the gardening update, for example the changes to evolving.)

I'm aware of course that Seasons affects what will grow in which season, but don't know if things like weather affect how many harvestables a plant will produce if conditions are adverse, for example if it's raining, or too hot or too cold.

"sirguylittle;c-17311543" wrote:

"Karababy52;c-17310649" wrote:
@sirguylittle Ah, okay that explains it then. I'm guessing since your most current update is 1.52, that you perhaps don't have the gardening update that was implemented just prior to Seasons. The latest update is 1.58.63.1010. Also, the Seasons EP does affect gardening in the game. You are correct also about only needing to be in the neighborhood for plants to be ready for harvest at the designated time.

1.52 is the June 2019 patch, immediately before the one that brought in the new look and well after the Seasons patch. (I can see the changes brought in by the gardening update, for example the changes to evolving.)

I'm aware of course that Seasons affects what will grow in which season, but don't know if things like weather affect how many harvestables a plant will produce if conditions are adverse, for example if it's raining, or too hot or too cold.

About weather, I found that during Winter not all my test gardener's plants spawned crops. I thought my sim must have harvested them previously when I was not noticing. But then I realized the crops that actually were in sim's inventory were all Perfect quality. The Normal plant had probably not given any harvestables because the freezing temperature. I know this was 2 sorts of fruit trees, and I think it was Lemon and Pear. It was only one day this happened, probably only one day that Winter was very cold that year. Anyway, my conclusion (although further investigation might be in order) is that lower quality Lemon and Pear will not spawn crops on very cold days in Winter.

"Karababy52;c-17310649" wrote:
@Simmerville Have you patched and opened your game again yet? I'm just curious if the inventory problem was fixed for you. Hope so!

It was actually fixed the next time I started my game, so no more inventory trouble. I have no idea what caused it, but my pc sessions tend to be rather long, some days more than 15 hrs without rebooting, probably not so smart as a reboot never harmed any software performance...

Hey HarleighJayde98,

Thanks for looking out for the community and sharing your how you worked it! Hopefully, it'll help others too. 😄

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