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Carl's The Sims 3 Gardening Guide: Seed/Plant List
Path to the Perfect Garden
| Gardening | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| How to Garden | Find Seeds | Sprinklers | Fertilizer |
| Plant Quality | Plant List | Special Opportunities - Omni Plant, Steaks, and more | |
This Plant List includes growth times, values and notes for obtaining every type of plant in the Sims 3 and the Sims 3's World Adventures expansion pack. Look to the bottom of the list for information on finding the new plants in the travel destinations included in the expansion.
The requirements for what you can plant are simple. At level 1, you can only plant common plants. Sims can plant Uncommons at level 5. Rare and Special plants are plantable at level 7. The special gardening opportunities require your Sim to be in Sunset Valley or Riverview and be at least level 9 before they will trigger.
Base Growth times are included to show the effects of powerful fertilizer. Check the Fertilizer Guide for information on what fertilizer does and doesn't do in the game.
Harvest Value is for one harvestable of that type. Plants can give anywhere from 1-5 produce depending on the variety. The formula is simple. Perfect quality plants sell for quadruple the value of a normal specimen.
| Sims 3 Plant List | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Name | Rarity | Harvest Value | Growth Time: No Fertilizer | Fertilized with Perfect Life Fruit | Max Harvestable Produce | Special Notes |
| Apple Tree | Common | 4-16 | 4 | 4 | 40 | Find seeds or wild plants in the world or purchase from the Supermarket. |
| Cherimola Blan Grapes | Common | 4-16 | 8 | 4 | 30 | Requires World Adventures. See Footnotes |
| Grapevine | Common | 4-16 | 8 | 4 | 15 | Find seeds or wild plants in the world or purchase from the Supermarket. |
| Lettuce Plant | Common | 3-12 | 4 | 4 | 15 | Find seeds or wild plants in the world or purchase from the Supermarket. |
| Renoit Grapes | Common | 4-16 | 8 | 4 | 30 | Requires World Adventures. See Footnotes |
| Tomato Plant | Common | 3-12 | 4 | 4 | 20 | Find seeds or wild plants in the world or purchase from the Supermarket. |
| Avornalino Grapes | Uncommon | 7-28 | 8 | 5 | 30 | Requires World Adventures. See Footnotes |
| Lime Tree | Uncommon | 9-36 | 8 | 4 | 40 | Find seeds or wild plants in the world or purchase from the Supermarket. |
| Onion | Uncommon | 7-28 | 10 | 4 | 25 | Find seeds or wild plants in the world or purchase from the Supermarket. |
| Meloire Grapes | Uncommon | 8-32 | 8 | 4 | 30 | Requires World Adventures. See Footnotes |
| Plum Tree | Uncommon | 7-28 | 8 | 50 | Requires World Adventures. See Footnotes | |
| Pomegranate Tree | Uncommon | 8-32 | 8 | 4 | 50 | Requires World Adventures. See Footnotes |
| Potato | Uncommon | 7-28 | 8 | 4 | 15 | Find seeds or wild plants in the world or purchase from the Supermarket. |
| Watermelon | Uncommon | 9-36 | 8 | 4 | 10 | Find seeds or wild plants in the world or purchase from the Supermarket. |
| Bell Pepper | Rare | 12-48 | 14 | 8 | 15 | Find seeds or wild plants in the world or purchase from the Supermarket. |
| Cherry Tree | Rare | 12-48 | 11 | 6 | 50 | Requires World Adventures. See Footnotes |
| Cranerlet Nuala Grapes | Rare | 13-52 | 11 | 8 | 30 | Requires World Adventures. See Footnotes |
| Garlic | Rare | 15-60 | 15 | 8 | 30 | Find seeds or wild plants in the world or purchase from the Supermarket. My personal favorite fertilizer because of its duration and outstanding quality with a lower price than life fruit. |
| Gralladina Fran Grapes | Rare | 10-40 | 8 | 6 | 30 | Requires World Adventures. See Footnotes |
| Pomelo Tree | Rare | 15-60 | (?) | 6 | 50 | Requires World Adventures. See Footnotes |
| Burger Plant | Special | 16-64 | 8 | 4 | 15 | Outstandingly Rare Opportunity |
| Cheese Plant | Special | 5-20 | 7 | 4 | 15 | Uncommonly Good Opportunity |
| Death Flower | Special | no value | 10 | 4 | 1 | See Finding Special Seeds. Prevents accidental death when in inventory in an exchange with the Grim Reaper. |
| Egg Plant | Special | 7-28 | 7 | 4 | 15 | Uncommonly Good Opportunity |
| Flame Fruit | Special | 18-72 | 10 | 6 | 20 | See Finding Special Seeds. Gives a cozy fire +5 moodlet when in inventory. Used for baked angel food cake cooking recipe. |
| Life Fruit Plant | Special | 25-100 | 10 | 6 | 12 | See Finding Special Seeds. Life Fruit are the second best fertilizer. Reduces age by 1 day when eaten. Used to make Ambrosia |
| Money Tree | Special | 100-800 | 12 | 9 | Nigh Infinite | See Finding Special Seeds. Spawns a new seed as the tree gradually evolves to perfect quality. |
| Omni Plant | Special | variable | (?) | (?) | - | Requires completion of The Omnificent Plant Opportunity. Seeds are then ordered from the mailbox. Can grow books, fish and other objects you use as fertilizer. Thus the variable income. I recommend high dollar books as the best crop. |
| Steak Plant | Special | 20-80 | 8 | 4 | 15 | Outstandingly Rare Opportunity |
Finding World Adventures Plants
Champs Les Sims, France is the single best place to head to find the new plants in World Adventures. One trip there and you'll have all of them except the cherry tree. Cherimola and Renoit grapes can be purchased at the general store. Look to the house along the dirt road up the river from the base camp to find two other varieties. The rare grapes can be found from the special vendor at VISA level 3. They can also be found on the little island in the river. You can get there by using Zeneport, cheating or by going through the tomb located in the image below. It's quite a big one, but you can also find some valuable collectibles on the island and find plenty of treasure along the way. Smashing the rocks requires Pangu's Axe, which is only obtainable in China. If you're out to get this I have to recommend Martial Arts as the easiest way short of cheating, because a single trip to China may not be enough to get the axe but it's plenty of time to grab a skill book or training dummy for use in between trips.
You can find other countries' rare plants in the garden of the house in the shot below. Pomelos, Plums and Pomegranates can all be picked here. Thanks to Pam Marsden for this helpful map which saves me the time describing how to find this house!
The next place I'd like to mention is Shang Simla, China. A trip here to learn Martial Arts and picking up cherries is all you need to do to get yourself access to all the new plants in World Adventures. The marketplace here sells Plums and Pomelos, while Cherries and Pomelos can be harvested wild from Han's Orchard.
Al Simhara, Egypt is the last place to look for the new plants. The first two are so good you'll likely only be interested in harvesting here if you're already travelling there. Pomegranates and Cherries are sold at the general goods vendor, while Pomelos and Pomegranates are harvested wild across the river at the farm to the Sphinx's left.
| Gardening | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| How to Garden | Find Seeds | Sprinklers | Fertilizer |
| Plant Quality | Plant List | Special Opportunities - Omni Plant, Steaks, and more | |
| The Sims 3 Skills | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tips | Cheats | Athletic | Charisma | Collecting | Cooking | Fishing |
| Gardening | Guitar | Handiness | Inventing | Logic | Martial Arts |
| Nectar Making | Painting | Parenting | Photography | Sculpting | Writing |
