moving and plants

yeah

(post body count is too short)

"kalaksed;c-16766387" wrote:
just make sure to harvest the plants before you put them in household inventory or you'll get each harvestable individually in inventory, too. which can be irksome if you have a sizeable garden... (that said, doing this is the only way to get money tree seeds without spending more satisfaction points or cheats)

Actually, with level 5 gardening, you can take one cutting from a money tree, graft it onto a plant (I do strawberries or snapdragons, since they grow fairly fast) and then harvest and you get the money tree fruit in your inventory to plant money trees to your hearts content. It appears, as of this date, that money tree fruit is not part of the 1% rarity that other grafted plants are, such as dragon fruits. More money trees, no points, no cheats. :)

Okay, about garden plants & Seasons...

I've discovered that when a fruit, vegetable or flower goes out-of-season (dormant), I can move the non-producing item into the house's inventory and replant with an in-season item from my inventory.

When dealing with plants other than trees (because a single tree takes up an entire planter box), it's easier moving the planter box with its collection of 4 plants into inventory than removing each plant individually. The planter box and the plants will be automatically separated into like-item stacks in the house inventory (all the bluebells will be stacked with the bluebells, the onion plants will be stacked with the onion plants, and all the planter boxes with the planter boxes), so you can place a freshly emptied planter box out of a stack of planter boxes from inventory and fill it with in-season plants. Also, because your household inventory is kept in a last-in last-out fashion when cycling through the seasons, your plants will be kept in an odd kind of default order.

As you cultivate your plants the quality of the fruit / flower increases from "normal" -> "nice" -> "excellent" -> "magnificent". As a plant is kept in inventory, it does not appear to suffer any ill side effects and retains its quality. Though there may be an advantage to keeping them in the ground if the plant can evolve while dormant (I can't remember if they do).

Fruits & vegetables harvested from your plants can be stored in a refrigerator's inventory. Flower inventories are stored in the flower arrangement station. As a particular plant comes into season, it may be advantageous to sell off the old stacks of fruits, vegetables & flowers of lesser quality from your inventories.

High quality fruits, vegetables & flowers can be removed from the refrigerator / flower station and be planted like seeds, but you will have the advantage of increased quality of plant and will not have to cultivate "from scratch." So if you want to grow a whole vineyard of magnificent grapes, it is to your advantage to cultivate a single planter of grapes and sell off your harvests until their quality reaches "magnificent." Once your plant is producing magnificent fruit, use the harvested magnificent fruit to seed the rest of your orchard. It's a whole lot easier this way than "evolving" an entire orchard one tree at a time until they're all magnificent.

Oh, and don't ever worry about loosing your refrigerator inventory when you sell your refrigerator. My character donated his refrigerator to charity with one accidental click... The inventory did not get sold away with the old refrigerator. I bought a new refrigerator, and my old inventory was still there.

Okay... So, I'm at a point where I want to move my house. I have: 1) a house inventory, 2) a refrigerator inventory, 3) a flower station inventory, and 4) an individual inventory for each of the 4 characters living in the house. In live mode, I can move inventories between the refrigerator/flower station and any individual. There are some items I can move in live mode, like the painting easel or small placement objects, that I can move into an individual's inventory.

What about those items that don't seem to budge in live mode, that can only be moved in build mode? These are the items most likely to be retained in the house inventory. When I vacate the house I imagine I will have to move as much junk into the characters' individual inventories and everything else will have to move into the house inventory.

I am hoping the house inventory moves with me, but everything that I leave placed in the house will be forfeit.

Yes, plants and planter boxes can be moved in build buy mode to family inventory, they could before the gardening update, but some plants will just look like dirt piles if not in season, I wish they would fix that, because its hard to know what kind of plants you have now.

"pjericksim;c-16941389" wrote:
Okay, about garden plants & Seasons...

"I am hoping the house inventory moves with me, but everything that I leave placed in the house will be forfeit."

Okay, so I finally earned enough to buy my way into a bigger house and made the move. I took an afternoon and created a house of six bedrooms and several bathrooms and furnished it with counters, showers & toilets... You know, the essentials.

When I saved my build, it was just outside of my SIM's budget... "Aargh!" I was worried that a random SIM family would get defaulted into my new build, so I tried making the move anyway and it worked.

I had moved all the items I couldn't live without and placed them into the house's inventory expecting that the inventory would transfer with my SIMs.

Upon selecting the house (which was obviously out of my budget), I was advised that I had an option to buy the house without any of the furnishings... Which brought the cost of the house into my price range.

Upon vacating the old house, I was given an option to leave the old furnishings or keep 'em. I chose to bring everything with me, which meant it carried absolutely everything, including the toilet paper dispenser, from the old house and lumped it all into my new house's inventory with all my old inventory as well.

All of my plants transferred over to the new house's inventory as well as the inventories in my refrigerator and florist station.

All in all, I didn't loose any stuff as a result of the move, and I'm happy.

"kalaksed;c-16766387" wrote:
just make sure to harvest the plants before you put them in household inventory or you'll get each harvestable individually in inventory, too. which can be irksome if you have a sizeable garden...

Ya know, sometimes I gloss over things without really understanding 'em... So, after my move, I understand now what @kalaksed was trying to tell me.

If you have a plant that's ripe for harvest and you put the plant (or the container it's sitting in) in your house's inventory the seed/fruit of your harvest will be stacked separate from the plant it came from... At this point, it is hard to transfer the seed/fruit from the house inventory into a SIMS personal inventory or the refrigerator / flowerstation inventory without placing the item individually, one by one, it into the world; switch into live mode and again move the items one by one into a selected inventory. Likewise, you can't seed a group of flowers, fruits or vegetables from the house inventory without moving each individual "seed" from the house inventory to the desired place. If you're in such a situation, it would just be easier to sell off the stacks of seed/fruit than to try and save / plant from your house inventory.

Interestingly, when you're planting from your own personal inventory, you can drag & drop from the stack to the desired place and with a 'click' not only will you place the seed, but your cursor is preloaded from the stack to place the next seed until your stack is exhausted.

Also... when you're in the mood for some heavy planting if you select to open your refrigerator or florist station, you will have access to their inventories AND you can drag & drop the seed directly from the refrigerator / florist station inventory and place it just as if it was in your personal inventory.