Is gardening completely broken right now

I just played a few more real world hours and the plants did grow and stuff but never need water :)

I don't have Seasons and I don't plan to get it for quite a while.

I've started several test games since Seasons came out and it's been interesting to see how that EP has affected a non-Seasons game. I've had Sims plant fast growing and slow growing plants. I've had Sims use various types of fertilizer to see if anything speeds up the process. So far, it's just tediously slow. Ever since Seasons came out, plants take a lot longer to need anything. You water them once and it seems like they never need to be watered again but they're always dripping.

Recently I had a Sim start the Freelance Botanist aspiration in another new game. It's always been one of the first aspirations that I have new Sims work on. While my Sim waited for his plants to need anything or do anything, he finished five other aspirations - The Curator, Painter Extraordinaire, Bodybuilder, Nerd Brain, and Fabulously Wealthy. Still waiting on his plants to do something, I had him start Bestselling Author, Archaeology Scholar, Angling Ace, and Jungle Explorer. He's almost finished with Renaissance Sim.

Just before I closed the game this afternoon, I saw weeds sprout in his garden (oh, happy day) which means that bugs will be next. After that, the plants will need fertilizer and then they'll be ready to evolve. And then the waiting game starts again.

I have seasons and most plants I’ve ever planted I only have watered once.

"jimbbq;c-16744078" wrote:
I just played a few more real world hours and the plants did grow and stuff but never need water :)

I don't have seasons and have noticed that if you take your sims off lot, when you return immediately look at the plants, you'll see them dripping as if they had just been watered; however if you don't send any sims off lot for a few days then they eventually do need watering again. All the other interactions are still there, weed, spray for bugs, harvest and sell etc. They still do increase quality too as long as you fertilze them regularly but it does take longer, I use Growfruit to fertilize and I've had several sims with gardens that are now perfect. :smile:

It is really annoying though with the scientist career because you get things like "water a plant" or "order a co-worker to garden" but you cant do them because it's just broken and the plants never need watering and I am yet to see them harvest-able and my sim is now level 8 and go with her to work every day! the plants are even in season and just sit there not growing any crop or needing watering.

"KayosCatalyst;c-16744452" wrote:
It is really annoying though with the scientist career because you get things like "water a plant" or "order a co-worker to garden" but you cant do them because it's just broken and the plants never need watering and I am yet to see them harvest-able and my sim is now level 8 and go with her to work every day! the plants are even in season and just sit there not growing any crop or needing watering.

Yes you're right, it is still broken on the Scientist career, you can't do anything with them. Until they fix this I have plenty of plants at home lot so at least I can create the variou serums that need them. Let's hope they fix this soonest. :smile:

"KayosCatalyst;c-16744452" wrote:
It is really annoying though with the scientist career because you get things like "water a plant" or "order a co-worker to garden" but you cant do them because it's just broken and the plants never need watering and I am yet to see them harvest-able and my sim is now level 8 and go with her to work every day! the plants are even in season and just sit there not growing any crop or needing watering.

I made a suggestion about this issue when I first noticed this. I suggest that they change the Scientist hours to 4 am to whatever hours later, this way the sim would be on the lot, and the plants would go as normal.

"KayosCatalyst;c-16744452" wrote:
It is really annoying though with the scientist career because you get things like "water a plant" or "order a co-worker to garden" but you cant do them because it's just broken and the plants never need watering and I am yet to see them harvest-able and my sim is now level 8 and go with her to work every day! the plants are even in season and just sit there not growing any crop or needing watering.

The issue with the gardening is that a Sim has to be on the lot at 5am for the plants to grow/become harvestable, so it's fine at home but not so much at the lab because no one is there that early. That's one bug that'll need fixing before I try the scientist career again.

"KayosCatalyst;c-16744452" wrote:
It is really annoying though with the scientist career because you get things like "water a plant" or "order a co-worker to garden" but you cant do them because it's just broken and the plants never need watering and I am yet to see them harvest-able and my sim is now level 8 and go with her to work every day! the plants are even in season and just sit there not growing any crop or needing watering.

Same, the plants never need watering or produce anything they just sit there and die. I don’t have seasons either.

"stilljustme2;c-16744725" wrote:

"KayosCatalyst;c-16744452" wrote:
It is really annoying though with the scientist career because you get things like "water a plant" or "order a co-worker to garden" but you cant do them because it's just broken and the plants never need watering and I am yet to see them harvest-able and my sim is now level 8 and go with her to work every day! the plants are even in season and just sit there not growing any crop or needing watering.

The issue with the gardening is that a Sim has to be on the lot at 5am for the plants to grow/become harvestable, so it's fine at home but not so much at the lab because no one is there that early. That's one bug that'll need fixing before I try the scientist career again.

What I have done to get around it is buy a cheap seed (or clone a plant) and plant it, then water it or order the coworker to garden. I also usually just buy "seeds" for most of the serums or collect them when the sim is not at work.