Gardening Nerf?

So my fc has noted some oddness regarding the cross-breeding. We've been using the Grade 3 Thanalan soil but this patch we've gotten less seeds when crossbreeding Jute. In fact we haven't changed anything, yet we're getting a fraction of the seeds we used to.

Has anyone else noticed this? Was their a ninja nerf?

I've only ever gotten one seed per plant, so 8 total in a deluxe.

I had another crop that only yielded 7 seeds total (wasn't jute, I forget what it was) but I can't say I've ever gotten multiple seeds from harvesting.

I did Jute with Krakka as that was listed as a good cross for king tomato, but got no crosses off that. Crossing jute with mandrake appears to be providing the usual good chances at gaining jute, but you're still fighting rng and sometimes rng even on good crosses can give you a swift kick.

We're doing the same crosses, same soil in the deluxe plot as we've always done. Normally we'd get 7-8 seeds, one from each plant. Since the last patch, our latest rotations have yielded two seeds from the entire deluxe bed.

OMG, less seeds yielded than what you started with? That's terrible! I have a jute patch going right now and I'll have to report back in a few days when it's ready. I always do Jute and Mandrake, which has always resulted in getting 7-8 Jute seeds back and 4 sprigs of Jute. I've thought about switching soils on the Jute so I get more Jute and hopefully just get the Jute seeds off the mandrake plots but now you have me worried.

No problems here, I just harvested some today and was 8/8 seeds in my patches for jute.

Do you have someone new doing it? Are they planting them side by side or doing one plant at a time, like maybe corners first then in between?

I have been planting and harvesting since it was introduced and if anything I am getting better results now than I ever have.

Maybe throw a lala sacrifice or two at RNGesus?

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

No problems here, I just harvested some today and was 8/8 seeds in my patches for jute.

Do you have someone new doing it? Are they planting them side by side or doing one plant at a time, like maybe corners first then in between?

I have been planting and harvesting since it was introduced and if anything I am getting better results now than I ever have.

Maybe throw a lala sacrifice or two at RNGesus?

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I thought this was standard practice. In fact the scarecrow in the deluxe ones is just a result of Lala taxidermy gone horribly wrong.

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Originally Posted by OliviaJ

I thought this was standard practice. In fact the scarecrow in the deluxe ones is just a result of Lala taxidermy gone horribly wrong.

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It should be.

As big as lala sacrifices are, I am surprised we haven't gotten an emote out of it yet lol

Lala sacrifice do not help, however the odd roe here or there helping tend from beneath the soil works wonders. ;D btw you don't get more jute regardless of the soil. It's one per even with grade 3 shroud soil. :(

Hmmm Roe doesn't seem like it would be too great, the salty sea air would make them a lil toxic to the soil.

Lala, on the other hand, if not working as sacrifices, you can always mulch with a sylph or two it really makes those plants grow! I prefer the 3 lala to 1 sylph ratio for most plants myself.

And the topic is seeds from crosses not the plant itself, although man would even 2 jute be a wonderful thing, they grow way to slow and you need way to many to make even 1 item.

I...did not know that about the Jute. Thanks for the info! I did however harvest my Pinapple/Fig garden last night and it yielded 8 Glazenut seeds so I think quite possibly someone used the wrong soil in the OP, or you just had the worst luck ever. My jute garden is still growing so again, I'll report on that.

Off topic a bit but there are still some medium plots in Goblet on my server, one of which I was looking at last night and it's so damn tempting. I've got my original small in Mist in a so-so location, an awesome small in Beds on my wife's character and my sister lets me use her garden plot also in Beds. Very tempting to give up the small plot in Mist for the medium in Goblet even though I kinda hate the Goblet. It would mean an extra garden, more floors to decorate, more yard slots (although I am not sure that the medium has any more yard space than a small). I should just wait until a medium opens up in Mist. Right? Right

If you like Mist better, wait on an opening.

The exterior and interior both have more slots for items the higher up you go. A medium allows 2 gardens, has 5 or 10 more outside than a small and 50 more inside.

Goblet is just so....beige. Plus the built in pillars are not as nice imo.

Harvested the Jute garden. 7/8 had seeds. That's not too bad. I still love that we can almost double our Jute seed count, just hate how long Jute takes to grow and the sheer amount it takes for the final products. There's a reason it's so expensive.

Mandrake + Jute actually in my FC are yielding 1 Jute seed for each plant with T.Topsoil III o.O
I even gathered MAdrakes today and ALL gave a Jute seed o.O

I would trade my small in the mist for the lavender bed in a heart beat, and with all the extra jute seed, u can always plant them in the inside pots.

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Originally Posted by SundayTrash

I would trade my small in the mist for the lavender bed in a heart beat, and with all the extra jute seed, u can always plant them in the inside pots.

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I was wondering about this. I thought you could only grow flowers in the flower pots. You can grow actual crops? The multiplying of seeds would go so much further!

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Originally Posted by OliviaJ

I was wondering about this. I thought you could only grow flowers in the flower pots. You can grow actual crops? The multiplying of seeds would go so much further!

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Yes you can use all seeds in the flower pots, you just cannot cross with them.