If your Sim is pursuing the Freelance Botanist aspiration, they need to evolve 10 plants to Excellent quality. Evolving a plant makes it better in quality. In other words, you can harvest better quality crops, herbs, and flowers. Show
If you’ve been using plant-based fertilizers but you still can’t evolve your plants, you need to change your strategy. 🌱 To evolve plants to Excellent quality in The Sims 4, first, you need to level up your Sim’s Gardening skill to at least Level 2. Then, use fish as fertilizer. Fish is the best fertilizer to use if you want to quickly evolve plants to Excellent quality in The Sims 4. Rare fish make for great fertilizers. Fertilizing your plants with rare fish such as Rainbowfish, Batfish, Sturgeon, or Treefish will boost their quality instantly. The fresher the fish, the faster the results. However, even poor-quality or foul fish work great as fertilizers. Additionally, having the Great Soil lot trait will help you grow high-quality plants faster. Once your plants are ready to evolve, they’ll sparkle. Click on them and select the Evolve option. Level up the Gardening and Fishing skillsAfter reaching Level 2 of the Gardening skill and being able to fertilize the garden, you should focus on leveling up your Fishing skill as well. Even if your Sim is a Level 10 Gardener, they won’t have much success evolving plants to Excellent quality if they’re using the wrong fertilizers. Evolving plants in The Sims 4 is a tedious task. Leveling up your Gardening and Fishing skills requires a lot of time and effort. But once your Sim has reached Level 6 in both skills, everything will be easier. To quickly level up your Sim’s Gardening skill, have them do anything related to tending the garden. This includes planting seeds, watering plants, weeding the area, fertilizing plants, spraying for bugs, and so on. To quickly level up your Sim’s Fishing skill, have them fish at different locations, and ask other Sims to mentor them. The skill gain rate is much faster when your Sim is Focused. Happy Simming! 😊 r/Sims4 I have no clue how to garden she’s at LV. 6 skill I already killed one by take cutting. Sounds like my actual life trying to garden. level 1 If you can get the great soil lot trait it helps. Fertilizing the plants as often as it lets you is the big thing and make sure to use fish or plants that are worth at least $50. Every sim morning be sure to check for weed and water and harvest abilities. level 2 Ok I’ve been doing that but not with items work 50 so I’ll try that! Thanks level 1 Use fish for fertilizer! The more expensive the fish the higher quality of fertilizer. It will really boost the plants quality! level 1 Thank you! I’ve been selling the fish so I’ll use them now!
Plant List, Fertilizer, and Grafting PlantsGardening allows you to grow and harvest Plants Gardening Guide for Base Game & SeasonsThis guide covers Gardening from the perspective of a new player and moves on to more advanced topics such as perfect plants, grafting, and fertilizer. We do talk about gardening overhaul grafting and changes to the way you acquire plants via buy mode. How to: Gardening Cheats About the Gardening Overhaul Gardening Overview If you like, you can jump to the Plant List. If you want info only on grafting combinations, head to the Grafting & Take Cutting Guide. See also the Beekeeping Guide if you have The Sims 4 Seasons Expansion Pack. Good Traits & Aspirations for Gardeners
You can Graft to produce a Death Flower Plant Starting Gardening & Skill Level Unlocks
Buy Seeds from the computer or a Garden Pot to get started Buying Seeds When you Order Seeds, you get to choose from many types of packets (especially with Seasons installed). Each will give you a variety of plants of that type. By default, you're able to choose from Starter Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, or Vegetables. These will give you random common items from each category, so buying more can increase the diversity of your yield. Later, you unlock the ability to purchase uncommon and rares. This can save you time gathering them, though the old ways of collecting these are still cost-efficient. However, once you have a big garden you should be bringing in large amounts so collecting all the gardening plants is now much more trivial. Create a line of Seeds and your Sim will Plant them all Planting Eating Produce Plant "Mood" Evolving a Plant raises its Quality Level Evolving Plants There is no point waiting to harvest until after you've evolved a plant. The harvestables' quality will be based on where the plant was when they grew. It's better to harvest them to get ready for the next evolution, so you can start getting profitable Superb-quality Plants. Harvested Plants can be sold through the Sim's Inventory Taking Care of your
Garden: Tending Garden and Harvest Yields Spraying for Bugs Fish make excellent Fertilizers. Fertilizing Plants (Gardening Skill Level 3) Beekeeping in Seasons greatly increases the rate your plants are fertilized. Having a bee box within 5 squares of a plant will grant it a passive boost that stacks with regular fertilizer. I highly recommend looking into this if you'd like to make a perfect plant collection. What is more, you get honey for your efforts which can help make your Sims happy, save them from heat death, and sells for good money. Plant Quality Sims can prune Bonsai Trees to gain Gardening experience Bonsai Trees One of many Pictures you can get from taking Microscope Samples from Plants Collect Microscope Sample Take Cutting lets you Graft Plants at Home Take Cutting Ability (Gardening Level 5) A Spliced Plant produces multiple Fruits, Flowers, Etc. Graft Ability - Combine Plants (Level 5) Grafting is a good ability that allows you to minimize the work your Sim needs to maintain your garden, allowing you to eliminate some plants if you like. If you're going for maximum profit, you'd likely be better off having high-price plants that are NOT grafted in your garden, while grafting plants to condense the size of your garden and simultaneously cut back on the amount of fertilizing and garden tending you need to do. Grafting may also be used to get plants out of season. Use an all-weather plant like Sage and graft another common/uncommon to it to get that year-round. The primary means of getting masses of rares is going to be seasonal due to the weightings above. Cow Plants can be acquired from Grafting Snapdragon with Dragonfruit The Grafting option is very good for busy Sims that like to cook meals with good ingredients. However, remember that you get only 8-10 harvestables out of a plant and grafting too many to one plant will result in a mixture - 1 of a few of them, 2 of another, and maybe 0 of another kind on a particular harvest. It's totally random and doesn't really increase your yields. Best use of grafting is to do 2-3 type of plants, maximum, so you're sure to pick up a few of each when you harvest. Also note that harvesting right away will yield you few fruit, while waiting to harvest a grafted plant several hours after it first shows fruit (like normal plants) will give it time to make a larger variety of produce, and thus a better yield. Mushrooms are the main type that can't be cut/grafted. They tend to grow faster than other plants, so this may be part of the reason. Trees grow more slowly so they are not great picks for grafting other plants to. Graft your slow-growing plants onto faster growing types using the Plant List below. Wild Plants & Growth The Green Thumb Achievement Sometimes they aren't even ready for you to Take Cutting. The trick is to stay in the area long enough for them to grow a tad (Plants grow fast in TS4) so you can take a cutting, then graft it onto one of your own plants. Your Plant will then produce that type of fruit/vegetable and allow you to plant one once that type has been harvested. I have never seen seeds on the ground in this game - it's all about finding plants in the wild and combining with existing plants to get the fruit you need to put in the ground to make your own. You will sometimes find wild plants harvestable, it's just not as efficient to collect them that way given they will usually start at normal quality and you'd be better off skipping all that evolving. Tomato is found near Slipshod Mesquite in Oasis Springs Making Perfect Plants Faster Freelance Botanist is a Gardening Aspiration Making a Death Flower
Grafting for Efficiency Note: you cannot take cutting of Bonsai Buds, so this means that you can't graft that onto the #3 plant with Dragonfruit and Cow Berry. Contrary to the plan, you should keep the plant with Strawberry, Daisy, and Bonsai Buds to maintain the efficient nature. Because of this issue, it's one more plant but is also a minor problem. Just don't graft strawberry on to anything else except when making the dragonfruit by combining strawberry with snapdragon, and Daisy doesn't need to go on plant #2. Seasons SpecificGrowth Time and In-Season These changes make it a bit more challenging in terms of planning a garden that will create produce in the current season. If you select only starter packets and plant them all in Spring, you might only end up with one or two plants. Therefore some things are a waste of time depending on the time of year, and it may be good to break down the planting process and only grow plants that are in season or will be soon. While the plant list below has what plants are in season when, I will make a list of plants broken down by season and list them here later. Fertilizer StrengthsFreelance Botanist is a Gardening Aspiration Although fertilizer is talked about above, I've made a video/text guide to fertilizer in The Sims 4. On the Fertilizer Strength Guide, you'll learn how much strength each fish has to offer when used as a fertilizer, and some other information about how it works (freshness, weight, and fish fertilizer modifier all contribute). Plants can also be used as fertilizer as stated before. There are three ranks of fertilizer strength - high, med, and low. All plants other than growfruit (high) are either medium or low. Flowers and herbs are all low, fruits and vegetables are all medium. Evolving your produce makes it a better fertilizer. As produce approaches perfect quality, it begins to give more fertilizer 'experience' when applied to a plant. Growfruit can be attained at level 10 Gardening from rare seed packets, but trying to get them can be costly. I bought 50 packs and got 9 growfruit. Plant ListThe following are all 32 plants in the base game. Seed Packet means you can get it from the starting seed packet, purchased on the computer or by clicking a planter pot. What they give you is random. Farmer Packets unlock later, and provide a larger quantity of the same produce. Buy them at Gardening level 7 to get 'Good' quality seeds from them. It seems a bug prevents these from retaining their quality after that level, but we hope it will be fixed in a future patch. Note on Growth Times The Unidentified Fruit Object, aka Intergalactic Growth Pod, Grows Slowly Note on Values &
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Not listed: Forbidden fruit is an annual, used for the PlantSim challenge but only available when EA does that event. Growfruits appear as part of the spring challenge and are annual. Cow Plants - Caring for them and Essence of LifeDo not 'take the cake' - this Cow Plant is hungry and Sims are delicious. Cow Plants are a special type of plant, grown from a Cowplant Berry. Cowplant Berries can be found a few ways, mentioned in the table above. They are the only type that can't be harvested normally and do not display their status when you hover over them. Feeding, Petting, and Playing with the Cow Plant will give your Sims Gardening Skill experience. Taking frequent care of your Cow Plant is essential both to its life and your Sims'. Here you can see a Dead Cow Plant so you don't need to neglect it just to find out. If a Cow Plant is growing hungry, which happens after about 12 hours of not being fed, it will offer up cake. Sims cannot play with the Cow Plant at that point, but only choose between Feeding the Plant (wise) or eating the cake (foolish). Guests to your home or your own Sims with autonomy might just go for the cake if they're hungry themselves, and this can cause death. If the cow plant isn't fed after about 8-10 hours of this happening, it will die, leaving behind a rather cool-looking skeleton. A Cow Plant spits out one lucky Sim. It can now be milked to get a drinkable Essence of emotion. When a Sim is swallowed by a Cow Plant by going for the Cake, one of two things will happen. The first time they take the cake, they'll get spit out, upon which case they will leave the cow plant feeling disgusting and unnerved; an emotionless husk. There will be a Drained Moodlet that lasts two days. Milking the Cow plant will give you an essence that will give your Sim whatever Emotion that Sim was feeling at the time. According to Forum Member Reubenhood, death only comes if a Sim already has the Drained moodlet that comes from being spit out, so a second encounter with the Cow Plant will kill the Sim. The Grim Reaper cuts a Sim's Soul free of the Cow Plant When the Sim dies, the Cow Plant can be milked to get an Essence of Sim's Life. Drinking this will extend the Sim's lifespan by putting them back to the beginning of the current life stage. It's better to save for when your Sim is close to aging up, as you'll get more days out of it. Drinking the Essence of another Sim's Life increases your Sim's Lifespan Gardening was the first guide I made for The Sims 4. I love making farms in games, and also have a guide to farming in the indie farming RPG Stardew Valley. Sims 4 Skill GuidesActing | Archaeology | Baking | Charisma | Comedy | Cooking | Dancing | DJ Mixing | Fabrication | Fishing | Fitness | Flower Arranging | Gardening | Gourmet Cooking | Guitar | Handiness | Herbalism | Juice Fizzing | Logic | Media Production | Mischief | Mixology | Painting | Parenting | Photography | Piano | Programming | Research and Debate Robotics | Rock Climbing | Rocket Science | Singing | Skiing | Snowboarding | Vampire Lore | Veterinarian | Video Gaming | Violin | Wellness | Writing How You Can Support The Site and ChannelIf you like my sites and Youtube Channel, consider supporting me on Patreon to help me to continue. Back to The Top Check Out My Youtube Channel!We now have a Youtube Channel with over 50 guides in video format to go along with the huge site I've already created. Check it out and consider subscribing if you like my style. Add Comment |