Originally Posted by
JayCommon
I'm pretty sure you got all the answers you needed regarding fertilizer, but your plants can and will die if you don't water/tend them. Especially higher tier crops like glazenuts and jute.
To put it in perspective for you, I work every weekday and log in for at least some amount of time every day after work. I would normally Tend each plant I have growing right when I log in before applying my fertilizer to it since I always log out at my house. So once a day. When I started getting to Glazenut/Jute plants, I would notice that my one time a day wasn't enough. I would log in the following day and my plants would be smoking and the tooltip would say "This crop has seen better days..."
From there, a simple tending will restore them back to doing well, but I just don't like seeing the plants looking half-dead lol. Now I water them once when I log in, and again right before logging out and I don't get that problem anymore.
Fertilizer helps shorten the length of the growth period, but tending them is what you really need to do to keep them alive.
Hope that helps.