Seasons: Missing Dragon Fruit?

You can get dragon fruit in the rare seed packs

I used to find dragon fruit at the Spice Festival, but this time when my family went, none of the plants were ready to harvest, and it was late summer! Those plants are the only reason my sims even go to the festivals anymore.

After spending some time at the spice festival I had a few harvestable plants but there was no green shrub part for most of the plants and the fruit was floating in the air. My sim was able to harvest a few plants but didn't get much. I managed to get one dragon fruit, one tomato, and a few strawberries.



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I believe what you are seeing is a glitch. There are several things involving plants that are messed up. They supposedly fixed it in the latest patch, but to me it actually became worse.

If the plants look like they were just planted with no growth on them, it's normal. If planted outside they only grow in the fall. If planted in a greenhouse, they will start to grow in a couple of days. If the plants are completely gone, it's a glitch.

> @ldmarko said:
> I used to find dragon fruit at the Spice Festival, but this time when my family went, none of the plants were ready to harvest, and it was late summer! Those plants are the only reason my sims even go to the festivals anymore.

Plants only produce a harvest at 5am now (and only if you're on the lot) so I don't believe it will be possible to harvest at festivals now - they end too early.

I suppose I will check out the seed packs and festivals and start at square one. There is absolutely no plants at all. No dirt mounds or anything. Just gone. Oh well. Thanks for all the feedback folks!

I installed seasons just because I heard it made gardening a lot more fun, proper job, and my gardening sim had worked very hard to create quite a few plants and shrubs in the perfect state.… But when I loaded it for the first time, half of my fruit looked like it was sitting on the ground! I think it’s actually invisible shrubs like KatzMeow’s above (it just looked like the few fruits remaining were on the grass, and there were little mounds in the dirt like that too). I panicked, quit w/o saving, and put the code into origin to load without seasons. Sure enough - the plants are fine!! .....but I just paid for that seasons pack and I’d like to use it!!

Did anyone find a fix??? If I sacrifice those plants and start over, will I at least see my new shrubs (even if it’s not their fruiting season)? And is there ANY way I could avoid that besides simply living with invisible plants? Thanks everyone!

Well, I didn't transfer any saves before and after Seasons, But I CAN verify Dragonfruit plants grow just fine with Seasons. . . Even IF they are severely nerfed. Seasons knocked it down from a harvest of 8 per plant to 2. Plus they only grow outdoors in certain seasons. I now place all my planters indoors in something like a greenhouse or covered like a gazebo. As long as they are inside something configured as a room with a ceiling, they don't even need walls to be considered "Sheltered". Even a porch will work.

"katyxbunny;c-16999544" wrote:
I installed seasons just because I heard it made gardening a lot more fun, proper job, and my gardening sim had worked very hard to create quite a few plants and shrubs in the perfect state.… But when I loaded it for the first time, half of my fruit looked like it was sitting on the ground! I think it’s actually invisible shrubs like KatzMeow’s above (it just looked like the few fruits remaining were on the grass, and there were little mounds in the dirt like that too). I panicked, quit w/o saving, and put the code into origin to load without seasons. Sure enough - the plants are fine!! .....but I just paid for that seasons pack and I’d like to use it!!

Did anyone find a fix??? If I sacrifice those plants and start over, will I at least see my new shrubs (even if it’s not their fruiting season)? And is there ANY way I could avoid that besides simply living with invisible plants? Thanks everyone!

If you pick up the fruit and they are listed in your inventory as "perfect" then just plant them again. The new plants will still be "perfect". They just won't grow 8 per plant any longer.