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01/31/12 - Chapters 19-22 of Pam's Dreamweaver DecaDynasty Story are Here!
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Carl's The Sims 3 Gardening Guide: Grow Perfect Plants
Path to the Perfect Garden - Raising your Plant Quality
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| How to Garden | Find Seeds | Sprinklers | Fertilizer |
| Plant Quality | Plant List | Special Opportunities - Omni Plant, Steaks, and more | |
Perfect plants are highly profitable items in the Sims 3. High quality plants are worth more money than normal plants. If you can push your plants' base fruit or vegetable production to perfect without using fertilizer, you'll make a better profit. You'll need multiple perfect plants to complete the Perfect Garden lifetime wish, so let's learn how plants grow in the Sims 3.
In order to grow perfect plants, you'll need to grow a crop, either by buying produce at the supermarket or finding seeds. Harvest the produce once the plants are mature and save the best fruits and vegetables your Sim finds. Let's say you make a crop, fertilize and care for it as often as is necessary. The fruit these plants grow will be much better than the original produce or seeds you planted.
If your Sim has the Green Thumb trait, they can talk to plants to increase the quality of the harvested produce by one level. It will also by default give one more quality level. Super Green Thumbs (a Lifetime Reward) will bestow one quality level to the plant when it's first planted.
After harvest, when you plant these higher quality offspring, you'll get even better plants by repeating the process. Repeat this process for two or three generations and your garden will be full of perfect plants!
How to tell which plants are better when planting
To replant only the high quality crops you make, use a nifty feature of the Sims 3 interface. Click the arrow in the upper left corner of any stacked item to see individual item listings. You can then choose only the perfect, excellent and outstanding crops you've made to replant. Once you're done planting, head to the supermarket and mass sell the leftovers!
So you can tell which plants are higher quality, I've provided a Quality Scale for vegetables and fruit, as well as many other items in The Sims 3:
Putrid
Horrifying
Bad
Normal
Nice
Very Nice
Great
Excellent
Outstanding
Perfect
| Gardening | |||
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| How to Garden | Find Seeds | Sprinklers | Fertilizer |
| Plant Quality | Plant List | Special Opportunities - Omni Plant, Steaks, and more | |
| Athletic | Charisma | Collecting | Cooking | Fishing | Gardening | Guitar |
| Handiness | Instruments | Inventing | Logic | Martial Arts | Mixology | Nectar Making |
| Painting | Photography | Riding | Sculpting | Writing | ||