So, why no garden timers?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Not only do plants take different amounts of time to grow (anywhere from 1-10 days), but they also have different amounts of time before they turn purple and then die (24, 36 and 48 hours I've seen, and 'never' if you count the 1-day plants that can't turn purple under any circumstance).
And nothing says you have to plant everything all at the same time either.
So someone with a mansion would potentially need 72 different timers: for each of the 24 plots, time to harvest if constantly watered, time to purple, and time to death.
SE totally *could* do this, but it probably makes more sense to just check yourself once a day, since you can see their status as soon as you take the (heavily discounted) teleport to your own home.

Plus, they'd have to have some easy way to differentiate which garden plot is which, and then which planting spot is which, and things can be rotated, moved around. You can store plots and it keeps the plant info so stuff can shift...

Probably just a nightmare.

[Caitlinzulu]

I font care enough to search but i bet someone made a plugin for it or some kind of external program to help track everything

[Imora]

I tend the plants at my fc and friends garden regardless of if they need it at 6:30 every morning.

Easy to remember.

[Deveryn]

I either set a reminder on my phone or write it on a piece of paper.


I know one of those is foreign to people, so I offered an alternative.

[Raoabolic]

What if the plants just don't wilt and you can plant your seeds from anywhere using the FC menu? We can say we are streamlining gardening. :^)

[Deveryn]

What if the plants just don't wilt and you can plant your seeds from anywhere using the FC menu? We can say we are streamlining gardening. :^)

(Element)light seeds are more your speed then

[Jennah]

Plus, they'd have to have some easy way to differentiate which garden plot is which, and then which planting spot is which, and things can be rotated, moved around. You can store plots and it keeps the plant info so stuff can shift...

Probably just a nightmare.

AND you can have your own house, and an FC house, and be a tenant on two more, which I forgot. So possibly 96 plots...

[Caitlinzulu]

Using alts you can be tenant to a lot more. Up to 336 spots more. You would need to log into alt to plant but you can tend all on primary character. The logistics in gathering all the soil for it would be a nightmare though.

[Caitlinzulu]

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On top of all that you have flower pots too. Though to tend those you need to be owner or tenant.

[Jojoya]

As others have said, it's probably not something included in Estate timers because each plant would need to be listed separately and the harvest time can change based on use of fertilizer.

But I don't really need a timer to know I need to tend them at least once a day. I make it a habit to do it when I first log in, and hopefully just before I log out if not also when I visit my house at other times during the day.

If I'm trying to figure out how many days left before they're ready to harvest and I didn't track the planting date on some sort of text document or spreadsheet, their appearance is a clue (they have 3 different appearances as they grow).

If you don't know how long something takes to grow, https://www.ffxivgardening.com/ is a very good resource.

The logistics in gathering all the soil for it would be a nightmare though.

Marketboard - if the value of what you're growing isn't more than the cost of the topsoil, why are you growing it instead of just selling the topsoil?