Is there a glitch harvesting the Quill plant from the alien world?

I had to turn off aging at one point because I wanted my Sim to collect the quill fruit and she wasn't going to live until Summer. I had my Sims get up at 3 am (so that they'd have time to shower and breakfast - no stinky, hungry Sims in my rocket ship), blast off and then hang about looking for other collectibles until 5 am.

Most plants won't spawn that first morning of the season - you have to wait a day or so.