Let's talk gardening!

"metalfenix_Raf;c-16853548" wrote:
what are the best plants for making money? before the big gardening overhaul, the strawberry+ blackberry combo was my favorite (a strawberry plant with a blackberry graft) but now is not working so well, in fact, my dragonfruit plant is the most valuable of the ones I have. I know that I could graft the strawberry with an UFO, but since I live in san myshuno, the rocket is a no-go for me.

You don't need a rocket when living in an apartment, just use the one that spawns at Geekcon, that's what I do. :) Blackberries and Dragonfruit were my go-to profit making produce for my households with a garden. But now, blackberries aren't worth anywhere near what they were before the gardening patch. Makes me so sad. Just a tip, besides getting Dragonfruit from splicing or the Spice Festival with CL, you can also reliably fish up Dragonfruit from the fishing pier in Magnolia Promenade.

Another thing I've found is that plants in season grown outside in the ground produce more harvestables per plant than those grown in planters inside or outside. You need to wait a bit longer for them to spawn everyday though than just after 5 a.m. for greenhouse produce. If you wait until around 7-8 a.m. they'll produce anywhere from 6-8 per plant instead of the usual 3 or less sometimes when grown indoors out-of-season. It works best to rotate as noted by @Stormkeep. :)

I love gardening in TS4! I did stop having any gardens in my households for awhile though because of the exceedingly low success rate (1% o.O) for grafted plants to produce the rare harvestables. In particular Bird of Paradise and Orchids. I have NEVER been able to get one from grafting. But after this last patch, they fixed it so plants are ready to harvest again at festivals and I finally got a Bird of Paradise! Now I'm just working on getting the elusive Orchid in my game.

Happy Simming! <3