How often should I fertilize my crops?

I want to start farming jute and glaze nuts

How often should I fertilize them? I heard there is a diminishing return based on how often you do it

They only shorten time by an hour not worth it in my opinion, if you do just do it as long as it lets you.

Its been along time since i touched a garden but i think you can fertilize every hour to reduce grow time by an hour

I do it every hour if possible :)

fertilizing is a waste of time imo. if it gave significant reduced growth time i'd be all for it but it doesn't really so i wouldn't bother.

You can use fertiliser to let one crop grow faster than the other ones, to get a double crossbreed in - thats the best use for fertilizing I can see.

Image you crossbreed Rare-Plant with Common-Plant. Both have a grow-time of 5 days, so normally they'd be ready to harvest at the same time. If you fertilize Common-Plant a few times it will be done before Rare-Plant, allowing you to plant more Common-Plant next to the Rare-Plant and giving you a second round of crossbreeds.
I'm currently growing both Mandrakes and Jute in my garden - MandrakeXJute is a cross that can produces new Jute-seeds, so I'll harvest the Mandrakes before the Jute and replant them, giving me 4 more chances per bed to get Jute-seeds!
(In this particular case mandrakes has a "natural" higher grow-rate though, so I dont need to fertilze at all costs, but you get the idea)

If you're not crossbreeding... fertilize as often as you like or fertilize if you want the product badly. (I remember logging in every hour only to fertilize the damn Thavnair-Onions when they were introduced because my FC-leader back then wanted them badly for his chocobo and kept nagging me... dont do that. Tell your FC-leader he can freaking do that himself.)

Fertilizing plants has an hour cooldown and it decreases the growing time by an hour. If you fertilize a plant every hour you'll cut the growing time in half. There is no diminishing returns, every time you fertilize will decrease the time by 1 hour.

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Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer

Fertilizing plants has an hour cooldown and it decreases the growing time by an hour. If you fertilize a plant every hour you'll cut the growing time in half. There is no diminishing returns, every time you fertilize will decrease the time by 1 hour.

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According to some fertilizer findings that may not be entirely true. I've had some sporadic results myself, but without log server side tracking things it's hard for me to keep on top of it all when I did my own testing. I'm in the 'not worth it' camp myself, mostly because I manage to fertilize something just enough so it pops when I've gone to bed and all that time I've saved fertilizing it is usually used up when I'm asleep.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

fertilizing is a waste of time imo. if it gave significant reduced growth time i'd be all for it but it doesn't really so i wouldn't bother.

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you can technically half the growth time, which is really usefull for stuff that takes 1 week to grow

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

you can technically half the growth time, which is really usefull for stuff that takes 1 week to grow

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if you no life the game sure lol

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

if you no life the game sure lol

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if you are in a fc and have people help you out... or friends that can teleport to your house whenever they want to

I currently tend 14 gardens. I tend them twice a day, 8=9ish and 3 - 5ish..

I fertilize once, when I plant, so they will come ripe before I check on them, if planted after 4:30 I will try to remember to fertilize twice. I don't always remember.

On crops that take a super long time like Thav Onions, I totally think it's worth fertilizing. You can easily fertilize them 24 times over the course of 8 days (that would be 3 times a day), to cut the growth time down by a day (to 9 days). If you can fertilize them more often, then you can cut them down even more. On most crops, I'm in the not too worried about it camp.

If you have no life-fertilize, otherwise, don't bother :) The only thing I fertilize are the colored flowers to get what I want.

I fertilize when I log in, a second time when I'm getting ready to switch gears between content grinds and then a third time when I log out. Sometimes they'll get more than they benefit from but other times it makes up for the days when I play less than usual and fishmeal is cheap enough that a little waste isn't a concern.

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Originally Posted by Besame

If you have no life-fertilize, otherwise, don't bother :)

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If you fertilize 2-3 times while growing (not every day but total), it means the crop should be ready to harvest when you log in instead of needing to wait until it's been that exact 5 days (or however long) from when you planted to harvest. Without fertilizer you'd eventually end up at the point where you're waiting an extra day to harvest because you need to log out an hour before the crops are ready.

If you only occasionally grow crops, it doesn't matter but if you do it regularly it makes a noticeable difference over time.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

You can use fertiliser to let one crop grow faster than the other ones, to get a double crossbreed in - thats the best use for fertilizing I can see.

Image you crossbreed Rare-Plant with Common-Plant. Both have a grow-time of 5 days, so normally they'd be ready to harvest at the same time.

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Yes it used to be worth it but now the plant doesn't die if it's ready to be harvested. So now u can just leave the other in and harvest a day later.