Posts by froglady

Most special event plants that are variants of regular plants (like jack o lantern, heart of valentine and marvel fern) will only breed with that regular plant and not with each other. It's a coin toss whether the offspring are the event plant or the regular one, though.

Filters would be totally awesome! If I could find my plants by species or event or release date or grown date that would be fantastic!!

It's more likely server load. The more a server has to "serve up" at once, the more bandwidth it requires. That translates into money spent for hosting. If you can get by with a smaller server and a lower-bandwidth plan you can save quite a bit of money.

Since Alia got the yellow one from the garden and the white one both from breeding and the garden, that means both are available in the garden. Alia got the exact opposite results from me, so that was pretty neat that we answered the question of the variations being breed only or not so quickly.

I have one of the round yellow ones from a breeding and three of the triple white ones all from the garden, so that seems to confirm both can be gotten from the garden and both can result from breeding. Good to know.

Bred one, picked up three from the garden. Hoping for at least one new one.

I thought it was just me and my senile brain when I had mixed types of plants, but then when I had ONLY four pumpkins cause I was trying to get more breeding partners for my jack o lanterns before Hallowe'en I started realizing I wasn't going bananas. Then I started looking at what was in between what and it seemed the plant numbers were the key.

Used to be if you chose to sort by "newest plants" you could easily see which variants grew from the seeds that just matured. Now it seems they are all mixed together. I had 4 pumpkins, but they're mixed with other plants that grew up earlier. It's very confusing.

What I think is going on is that "newest plants" used to sort by "finally grown" date and now they're being sorted by plant number. That means if I pick up a really old seed from the wild garden that when it grows it could be quite a ways down the list of plants. It doesn't really help you see if you got that variant you were after if it's buried somewhere in the 4th or 5th row.

Can we have the old sorting method back, please? This way is confusing to a little old lady.

The problem with start and stop dates is that I remember the admins saying years ago that they had to be released manually, then they lasted however many days they lasted before they were stopped. Christmas trees one year didn't come out until mid-December, then lasted through January because we needed more time to breed two generations. Perhaps it's changed since then, but I don't think there was a set date or amount of days for things to happen in the old method of event plant release.

This Christmas tree, for instance.

Jan 30, 2013, 3:37:03 AM
Finally full grown.

Jan 24, 2013, 5:37:02 PM
It began to sprout.

Jan 19, 2013, 10:42:19 AM
Taken by froglady.

I usually run through the wild garden a few dozen times or until I can see if the seeds are still there near the end of seasonal plants. If there are no seeds, the breeding season is over. I don't think the start and stop dates are ever neat and easy like "start of month A to end of month B", though it would be nice.

You mean the yellow ones?

Yeah, a cat 4 and a former cat 5 that was a high cat 3 at landfall in 10 days was wild. Tampa Bay hadn't had a direct hit from anything stronger than a tropical storm in 100 years. The NWS categorized the flooding from Helene as a 1,000 year flood. Two couples in my co-op who thought it would be fun to stay and have a hurricane party during Helene ended up perched on the kitchen island of one of their houses praying that the water wouldn't rise any higher. They fled from Milton, thank goodness. The winds from Milton threw whole palm trees around and ripped the dome off the Rays' baseball stadium. I was a nervous wreck for months, so when my next door neighbor offered to buy me out for enough money to come back to WV and buy a condo outright I jumped at it.

I live in an area where it would take a 10,000 year flood to reach me. It's in the hills, so tornadoes don't go very far. We get thunderstorms, but not like those off the water in Florida. When the electric gets knocked out twice in two weeks by direct strikes from lightning so close it trips all your circuit breakers as well as exploding the transformer it's sort of scary, especially when two hurricanes come along a month later. My nerves had just had it. Florida is beautiful, but I just couldn't stay.

Thanks, Pounces. I'm getting back into gaming slowly. Not sure I'm going to take on as many as I played before. I have many friends now plus my sister and niece and we go do stuff, where in Florida all my friends moved away during COVID and I had no one, so I sat at home on the computer.

The hurricanes were very scary. First one flooded the underside of my trailer, but not the inside. Still, it took out the A/C unit. Then the second one came along less than 10 days later, which meant they cancelled my HVAC repair until after it hit. I got lucky and the house was still in one piece, but the 240V electric got knocked out in a lot of places by that one, and when they finally got it turned back on 3 months later they blew up my computer and a bunch of other stuff because they told no one they were coming so we could unplug things. I left because I just couldn't take one more big anxiety-producing thing happening. Florida is beautiful, but the storms are super scary.

I'm sorry your parents are unwell. When I lived in California I cared for mine as a solo caregiver for 9 years before they passed. It's hard on many levels, but I'm glad I got that time with them. Bless you and I hope you have a good support structure. If you need to vent, you can do it to me without judgement. There are feelings that are felt and experiences that only those who have done elder parent care really understand.

Hey there. I finally managed to get a new computer after mine got nuked by the twin hurricanes in late 2024. I tried for a while to play on the phone, but it wasn't working for me. I see I'm just in time for the Marvel Ferns. I also snagged a couple Chanterelles and will contribute to the knowledge I gain from them.

Well, I'm back. The twin hurricanes that hit Tampa Bay in late 2024 destroyed my computer (amongst other things). I moved out of Florida after that and am now back living in wild, wonderful West Virginia, where I grew up. I finally got settled and saved enough money to get a new computer. Playing on the phone just doesn't work for me. So now I'm catching up with my online games again. I'm so glad to see Flowergame still here. It's been such a calm space in my life for so long.

If I remember correctly, you can "fill" the sun 3 x instead of once, but what it does is keep the sun full longer, not grow plants faster.

I just got lucky. All my Easter eggs I had in the pots hatched and I had 4 empty pots, so went looking to see if the eggs were still around. Got brooms instead and yelled out loud.

Just in case you missed Fuzzbucket's reply to the What Now? post.

I signed on to find the witch mushrooms dropping. I'm so excited.

As long as he's not roadkill, we're OK.