Plant resetting issue

I noticed something interesting with regard to this glitch in my game today. For the most part, the plant revert glitch seemed to largely improve for me with the garden patches/fixes that came after the pre-Eco Lifestyle patch. After the purported fixes, occasionally a couple of the plants in my Sim's large garden would still revert to dirt piles, but the majority of the garden would be fine. However, today I added the great soil lot trait & the first day at 7 a.m. after the addition of that trait, almost all of the plants in my Sim's garden once again reverted to dirt piles. I quit without saving & reloaded the save a few times from around 3 a.m. & noticed that if I was on speed 1 when 7 a.m. rolled around again, almost all of the plants reverted to dirt piles, but on speed 2 or 3 at 7 a.m., the garden would be fine. Then, I tried saving my game at around 6:40 a.m. before reloading. This time, I noticed that on speed 1 at 7 a.m., the plants would briefly flash/glitch but they stayed harvestable & at speed 2 or 3 the plants were fine with no noticeable flash/glitch at 7 a.m. I don't know if this data point is helpful to anyone, but I thought I would post it just in case someone might find it useful. Needless to say, I'm going to remove the great soil trait & see if gardening for my Sim goes back to a mostly glitch free experience again.

Edited to add that when I removed the great soil trait, the notable plant flash/glitch at 7 a.m. on speed 1 was gone. So, while I don't think the trait is the sole cause for the revert glitch, I suspect that it is broken.

Thanks @EternalSunshine for the new information on possible reasons for the reverting (and for the possible solutions to avoid it happening) in the future). I'll have to try and remember that the next time.

"LibertyTheFree;c-17536903" wrote:
It seems to be related to the update, I didn't get EL, but some of the plants, mostly trees, seem to grow back to sprouts overnight, I figured it might have been the time when these plants would usually "spawn" harvestables. I honestly thought it was seasonality issue, that may have not been the case judging by everyone's post here.
There was once when my sim weeded a plantain tree, it was suddenly reduced to a pile a soil!(as if just planted, again)

PS. If you opt for a dirty workaround, shift clicking the plant with testingcheats on will let you set the growth stage :smile:

I have had plants reverting to dirt piles for a long time, months and months. I’m never quite sure when it’s going to happen so I save often and restart my game ( mine are sheltered in a greenhouse. I haven’t played since before the patch with the new colors for the build base game came out.

@EternalSunshine Thank you, I will have to try removing the trait, and fast forwarding before 7 am, my sim does much of the gardening around that time. I had noticed that much of my reverting had happened before late in the day, but then I was used to gardening around the time they respawn.