Quote Originally Posted by Alcifer View Post
It's the fruit count. However due to the way the fruits work its with a few caveats. Sometimes the message may come early, sometimes late. My path through shadow blue said it wanted two of one particular fruit. I fed it three before I got the message then gave it another for good measure and got the message again. If it says lots of fruit you're better off to take it in stages. Get one colour, then the next, the next rather then just trying to skip ahead a heap of colours.
Makes sense, I'm not sure how to even get close to Cactuar green though. xD The calculator says feed 8 apples, 9 pears and 11 berries. hmm.