Crisis!

Okay, I'm freaking out qq
My significant other is on a class trip to Spain for a week so as usual she's left me to tend the garden on our estate.
Buuuuuuuuuut she's the gardening expert and I forgot to ask about fertilizing >___>;;
Do I HAVE to fertilize crops? Will they die without it?
I'd reeeeaaallly feel bad to ruin her multi-million gil investment (she's going for glazenuts) with a stupid mistake lol

Here, let me google that for you.

http://bit.ly/1qEGSq4

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Originally Posted by Shirana

Okay, I'm freaking out qq
My significant other is on a class trip to Spain for a week so as usual she's left me to tend the garden on our estate.
Buuuuuuuuuut she's the gardening expert and I forgot to ask about fertilizing >___>;;
Do I HAVE to fertilize crops? Will they die without it?
I'd reeeeaaallly feel bad to ruin her multi-million gil investment (she's going for glazenuts) with a stupid mistake lol

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They have cellphone coverage in Spain.

And access to the interweb.

And chorizo.

my question wasn't specifically related to glazenuts, just whether or not I HAVE to use fertilizer.
I'm assuming no since none of those results mentioned anything but I want to make SURE with a direct answer from people with experience >.>

get a nanosuit

Again, google to the rescue!

http://bit.ly/1qEHSdU

Please grab a stack of 99, and fertilize the plants every earth hour. It will not let you over fertilize them. It will give you a message saying they are already sufficiently fertilized. A very quick way to do this is to put the fertilizer in the top left, or first, slot in a tab of your inventory. You then just right click the plant and hit the numberpad 0 key over and over (three times I believe) and it will select the fertilizer and use it automatically.

Found more info here
http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Gardening_Guide

Fertilizing shaves an hour off the total grow time. You can fertilize once an hour, meaning that if you fertilize the garden religiously you can shave half the grow time off.

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Originally Posted by Shirana

my question wasn't specifically related to glazenuts, just whether or not I HAVE to use fertilizer.

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no you do not. it only speeds up the time taken to be able to harvest.

1 fertilizer = 1 real-world hour less needed to harvest

Fertilising reduces total growth time by 1h. Tending is what keeps plants alive. You don't have to fertilise but it's strongly recommended (so you can harvest in 5 days instead of 10).

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Found more info here
http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Gardening_Guide

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I like how that page doesn't source anything, considering parts of it are literally copy-pasted.

Fertilizer is only used to decrease the time until harvest (optional), you only have to water them

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Originally Posted by Nadrojj

Again, google to the rescue!

http://bit.ly/1qEHSdU

Please grab a stack of 99, and fertilize the plants every earth hour. It will not let you over fertilize them. It will give you a message saying they are already sufficiently fertilized. A very quick way to do this is to put the fertilizer in the top left, or first, slot in a tab of your inventory. You then just right click the plant and hit the numberpad 0 key over and over (three times I believe) and it will select the fertilizer and use it automatically.

Found more info here
http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Gardening_Guide

Fertilizing shaves an hour off the total grow time. You can fertilize once an hour, meaning that if you fertilize the garden religiously you can shave half the grow time off.

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I don't think you were understanding my question lol
Also I already googled about it so I know what fertilizer does, I just couldn't find a definitive answer. I got the impression that I don't, but I did not want to take risks on this one @__@

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Originally Posted by joshsecret

no you do not. it only speeds up the time taken to be able to harvest.

1 fertilizer = 1 real-world hour less needed to harvest

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Thanks for the answer!

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Originally Posted by Lyrinn

Fertilising reduces total growth time by 1h. Tending is what keeps plants alive. You don't have to fertilise but it's strongly recommended (so you can harvest in 5 days instead of 10).



I like how that page doesn't source anything, considering parts of it are literally copy-pasted.

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Thanks for the answer~

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Originally Posted by Alukah

Fertilizer is only used to decrease the time until harvest (optional), you only have to water them

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Thanks again people xD

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Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard

They have cellphone coverage in Spain.

And access to the interweb.

And chorizo.

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She won't have internet where she is going.
And like me she only uses her cellphone for emergencies while at school.
I don't want to bug her while she's in school lol

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.

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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.

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Oh, don't worry, I already knew this since I tend the plants with her all the time!
I do the same idea as you. When I wake up I water them (around 10am). WHen I get home from work (midnight-ish) or just when I'm about to go to bed if I didn't have to work, I tend them again. Generally only 12hours-ish pass in between the last time they have been tended. It's been fine like that so far *-*

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Originally Posted by Shirana

She won't have internet where she is going.
And like me she only uses her cellphone for emergencies while at school.
I don't want to bug her while she's in school lol

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Fair enough. :p

It's around 20.20 in Spain now though so I doubt she'll be in school.

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Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard

Fair enough. :p

It's around 20.20 in Spain now though so I doubt she'll be in school.

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I honestly don't know the specifics.
I just cared about being lonely for a week qq.
All I know is it's field work for her class (which has to do with weather and climates and such), and like me she'll be focused on work with no internet and her cell is for emergencies only while at her university/on trips.
I remember how it was having a cellphone in highschool.
People wouldn't stop texting or trying to call me -___-
so I changed my number and gave it to only to my closest 2 friends other than family members.
Then all became silent... well that and I turned it off all day after changing my number 8D
To this day I still enjoy the peace and quiet :cool:

Edit: if you can't tell I like the independence without friends in school complaining to me the guy they like doesn't like her, or someone wants help, or is just bored in class and wants to chat xD I went to school to learn, not text all day lol