Crops died, never looked sick

Anyone else noticing plants aren't looking sick when they are sick? I just lost some apricots at my personal house, less than an hour after fertilizing them. The honey lemons by them were sick, but not showing the purple glow.

Is this a new bug? Only with personal house plots? Only with fruit seeds?

Tending them is more important than fertilizing, as far as their health goes.

I've not had any problems, myself.

Yeah, but they have always gone purple sickly glow when they were unhealthy. They did not.

Plants can be "has seen better days" without the pink glow. It's odd that it would skip right to dead without you noticing but I suppose it can happen.

I'd the same happen, also with apricot kernels...

they became sick without the purple glow and died in the end

I have a feeling it might be a bug related to fruit plants only. I have had the same issue before but only with glazenuts and apricots.

Darn. Haven't run into this myself, but you should write up a Bug Report.

I guess u gotta check em 4 real now rather than just looking at them and not clicking it lol

I tend 12 plots daily, never had this occur.
There's a 15-16ish hour window for some plants, 24h for others.
It's a hassle to keep track of so I just tend them every 12h: once when I wake up and once in the evening/before bed.
On the days I accidentally miss plants, or don't get to it within the window, they've always turned purple.
Depending on visual cues alone seems unnecessarily risky.

As hqdm said, different plants require tending more often than others. I've not done much gardening, but one day I had forgotten to tend to my plants until very late (having last tended to them more than 24 hours previously). 4 of my plants were purple and not doing well, the other 4 were perfectly fine. That said, letting them go that long once had no lasting effects. From what I can tell, there's no such thing as over tending a plant, so I just take a minute to tend to them anytime I'm online. It would be nice though if there was somehow an option to tend to all crops. I always get paranoid about which one I started on and probably tend to one or two of them twice.

I do recall being puzzled at one point when I had a set of plants have the "It's seen better days" message even though it didn't have the purple effect. Unfortunately I can't recall what it was.

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Originally Posted by hqdm

I tend 12 plots daily, never had this occur.
There's a 15-16ish hour window for some plants, 24h for others.
It's a hassle to keep track of so I just tend them every 12h: once when I wake up and once in the evening/before bed.
On the days I accidentally miss plants, or don't get to it within the window, they've always turned purple.
Depending on visual cues alone seems unnecessarily risky.

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and we are talking about plants, which just dont have the purple animation (bug?) and die before they turn purple even once

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

and we are talking about plants, which just dont have the purple animation (bug?) and die before they turn purple even once

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Hence the depending on visual cues part; others confirmed plants can be poor quality but not display purple.
It wasn't clear from the initial post if they were tending them or not, because fertilizing doesn't count as tending.
By keeping a constant schedule, you eliminate any opportunity for this bug (and by going by the status text, not color.)

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Originally Posted by hqdm

Hence the depending on visual cues part; others confirmed plants can be poor quality but not display purple.
It wasn't clear from the initial post if they were tending them or not, because fertilizing doesn't count as tending.
By keeping a constant schedule, you eliminate any opportunity for this bug (and by going by the status text, not color.)

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I had only tended when they were purple, the fertilizing comment was just to say that I had been there less than an hour before with no sickly glow.

15-16 hours, 24 hours tend interval. Anyone knows what will happen after 24h maintenance oct 27-28? Mass crop death?

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Originally Posted by Alx789

15-16 hours, 24 hours tend interval. Anyone knows what will happen after 24h maintenance oct 27-28? Mass crop death?

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I keep records of when I water/fertilize my plants, and have only been growing top-end stuff like Thav Onions, Glazenuts, Jute, Broombush, specialty choco food etc.. They go purple in 24 hours. Low-tier plants take even longer. Haven't seen a plant go purple in less when I actually kept tabs.
I'm not sure how long it takes for your plants to actually die after going purple, but as long as maint is only 24 hours and you've watered just before and get back in soon after, it should be fine.

Don't wait for your plants to wilt to water them.

If you water (tend) them twice a day (morning and night) irl they should never wilt. Always remember to tend after fertilizing, as fertilizing basically accelerates the plant forward one hour, also bringing the chance for withering closer as well.

It just happened to me with my glazed nuts. I'm ruined! ; ;