I'm doing an experiment to gather botanical information for my sims (will go public). I wonder if individual plants can be set to cheated to certain quality levels? I found I can cheat the gardening skill, but evolving all plants in the game to a top level would still take too long to run the projects as intended...Buying plants from buydebug won't effect quality? Those I tried did not...

I'm not sure if anybody else knows this now but there is a way. However, it's pretty time consuming if you have a lot of plants you wish to evolve. It works, as I am currently evolving tobacco leaves to sell. It is also repetitive as it only evolves your plants one stage at a time.Shift, left click on the plant you wish to evolve, click on "set gardening state", then you'll want to click on "plant evolution". You'll see four options which include: withered, devolved, on-track and ready to evolve.Here, you'll want to click on the "ready to evolve" option. Then you will manually need to evolve your plant, but don't worry, it's part of the pie menu. (you don't need to shift-click for this.)I'm not sure if you need to have a certain gardening skill as I have already maxed my skill. If you don't have gardening skill and it doesn't work, I can only assume you'll need it. You'll have to do this on each plant individually (hence it being time consuming) and it only evolves once so you'll need to repeat the process on each plant until you're happy with the quality.

Gardening - can plant quality be cheated?

GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I upgrade the quality of my Sims' plants by hitting shift while having the desired plant selected. From there you can select what you wish to do. I select the one that allows me to choose which level the plant is at. Starts out normal, then you can evolve them higher.
Karababy52
New Spectator
5 years ago
@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. :)
sirguylittle
5 years ago
"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.
HarleighJayde98
Seasoned Newcomer
4 days ago
I'm not sure if anybody else knows this now but there is a way. However, it's pretty time consuming if you have a lot of plants you wish to evolve. It works, as I am currently evolving tobacco leaves to sell. It is also repetitive as it only evolves your plants one stage at a time.
Shift, left click on the plant you wish to evolve, click on "set gardening state", then you'll want to click on "plant evolution". You'll see four options which include: withered, devolved, on-track and ready to evolve.
Here, you'll want to click on the "ready to evolve" option. Then you will manually need to evolve your plant, but don't worry, it's part of the pie menu. (you don't need to shift-click for this.)
I'm not sure if you need to have a certain gardening skill as I have already maxed my skill. If you don't have gardening skill and it doesn't work, I can only assume you'll need it.
You'll have to do this on each plant individually (hence it being time consuming) and it only evolves once so you'll need to repeat the process on each plant until you're happy with the quality.
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Simmerville
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Thanks a lot for input everyone!!! I got to learn a lot more than i actually asked, that's great! I've not decided yet how I will go about with my project, but I'm in no hurry. The info can go public before every detail is in, the scripting is done and I already use it to look up info.

But I came across one more thing... In the past it seems like each plant specie had a set amount of hrs it takes to produce crops. Then there was the gardening overhaul, and it now seems like all plants spawn crops at 5 AM. Does this mean that all plant species have the same routine, or is the various hrs still in effect? I couldn't find much info regarding the growth hours vs 5 AM, so I'll need to do some testing. If there is any known facts on this please direct me to it :)
Simmerville
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"Starfree;c-17307818" wrote:
@Simmerville, an easy way to evolve plants is to shift-click on a plant, choose the gardening option on the pie menu, choose the "plant evolution" option, then choose "ready to evolve". After that click on the plant again & choose "evolve." Works great ☺.

Super duper! Thanks :)
Simmerville
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"sirguylittle;c-17307891" wrote:
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Also plants take different amounts of time to reach maturity from planting. Parsley is the fastest I know, reaching maturity in just a few hours and will have a crop the next morning, whereas some plants can take several days, Daisy for example takes 4 days to reach maturity.

So, there might be one hourly requirement for reaching mature stage, and another amount of hours from harvest to next crop is spawned? Like for the Daisy, 96 hrs to reach maturity, and than probably 24 hrs between each harvest? Hm... this is more diverse and complicated than I expected. I'm putting together a table with facts, but there seems to be way to much to consider...
sirguylittle
5 years ago
"Simmerville;c-17307901" wrote:
"sirguylittle;c-17307891" wrote:
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Also plants take different amounts of time to reach maturity from planting. Parsley is the fastest I know, reaching maturity in just a few hours and will have a crop the next morning, whereas some plants can take several days, Daisy for example takes 4 days to reach maturity.

So, there might be one hourly requirement for reaching mature stage, and another amount of hours from harvest to next crop is spawned? Like for the Daisy, 96 hrs to reach maturity, and than probably 24 hrs between each harvest? Hm... this is more diverse and complicated than I expected. I'm putting together a table with facts, but there seems to be way to much to consider...

It seems that way, I must amend what I said though having re-read my notes, the 4 days for Daisy is the time to get a harvest after planting it, not just to maturity. (So it's probably 3 days to maturity then a harvest the next day.)
I have been doing some testing myself as I have often played a gardener Sim since TS3 but do not have as much experience with gardening in TS4. It seemed that a lot of what I read online was out-of date, especially concerning fertilising.

These are the plants that I know how long it takes to reach a harvest from planting in the morning.
1 day (ie next morning)
Parsley, Spinach, Carrot, Basil, Strawberry
2 days
Snapdragon
3 days
Potato, Bluebell, Sage, Chrysanthemum, Grape
4 days
Daisy
Karababy52
New Spectator
5 years ago
Here's a Plant list found on Carl's Sims 4 Guide website. It lists the number of hours it take each plant to mature and be ready to harvest. Hope this helps too! :)

Sims 4 Plant List

After you check out the plant list, I'd advise scrolling up to the top of that page and reading the entire guide. You'll find a ton of very useful information about gardening in the Sims 4. <3
sirguylittle
5 years ago
@Simmerville I have a little new information for you. I had been playing other games recently but just happened to have started a new game in TS4. I planted a few things on the morning of the first day and watched as 5AM came around the next morning. As expected Basil, Carrot, Parsley and Spinach were nearly ready.
The first harvestable on each plant showed up around 5:02 and it took about 30 minutes for each plant to have 10 harvestables.

I had my Sim harvest them around 7-9AM but what was new was that I happened to look just after 5PM and they were starting to produce harvestables again, 10 each around 5:30PM.
These 4 plants are fast growers and it looks like you might be able to harvest them every 12 hours and that there is a 5PM check as well as 5AM :)

(This would explain my earlier comment that I was sure I had seen plants with harvestables appearing during the day, it must have been after 5PM.)