Posts by froglady

As did I, but once they had sun and water again they grew. It's kind of an all-or-nothing thing, the way that sun and water work. I think it might be possible to arrest the growth of a sprout if one wished, but it would require lots of dedication to a goal that ultimately yields nothing you don't already have.

I have pretty good genes, too, but eventually you get caught anyway. My mother was grey at 30 (from black), my sister was white by 35 (from dark brown) and I am still just heavy salt-and-pepper in my early 60s. My dad's side greyed out in their 60s and 70s, so I take more after them.

I mis-typed the name of my cat game (which I why I actually replied to this post again). It's Secret Cat Forest, but I had my head in Garden mode, so...

I don't think there's a practical way to keep plants from growing without taking all of them off every click site and forum post and never playing any games. Besides, you can just click into the Compendium and see all stages of every plant you every had any time you wish, so there is no practical reason to keep them from growing.

If I remember correctly, event plants don't actually get deleted from the Wild Garden once they are in there. What happens is that on the date they stop, there just aren't any more put into there. But I can imagine that a seed might float around unnoticed and untaken until much later, when it gets its chance in the random number selection that you see every time you refresh and someone notices it and grabs it. Especially if players are looking for a particular seed and just refresh if they don't see it --or-- grab up the one they're looking for and don't even notice the wreath sitting there.

I play Final Outpost, Xanje, Magistream, FelisFire (alien cats), Sylestia (kind of an RPG + pets), Horse Eden Eventing. I have accounts on DragonCave, EggCave and Ovipets, but I can't handle my pets dying because I didn't get them enough clicks, etc, so I quit those. I've also played on Furry Paws (dog sport SIM), Wajas, WHILS, Alacrity, Grophland, IcePets, NeoPets (long ago when it was owned by the Brits), PowerPets, a few more dog/horse/cat sims, a few more RPGs, and a million others that are now extinct (I'm a grey-haired old lady who's been playing PBBG's since the 90's).

As far as games like this goes, there's a mobile one called Window Garden that's quite nice. And one called "Secret Cat Garden" that's been my obsession for years. That one is cute kitties you get to see if you build the proper furniture for each one. It's very Zen. No pressure to log in every day, no "exclusive" kitties, no leaderboards, just playing with cute cats that each have their own little GIF if they show up enough times. They do have microtransactions for you to get wood faster (to build furniture with) or to decorate your cottage/campsite/beach house with little touches (which come with some wood), but those are not necessary at all to enjoy the game.

Sorry I've been a bit inactive here lately. About the sprouts: if you have seeds that get more sun and water than your existing sprouts (or you don't pick slugs) they can overlap by a day or so, so you have then more sprouts than 4. But I don't think there's any way to KEEP them as sprouts. I mean, you can't remove them from your greenhouse and sun + water means they grow automatically even without clicks. You can't choose which plants get sun and water and which don't to make them not grow.

Someone asked if there were "Wild Garden Only" varieties. The answer there is NO. You can get some varieties only by breeding, but there are no varieties found in the wild garden that can't show up when you breed. You can breed two plants that are breed-only varieties together and get the original variety that was put in the wild garden for starters.

I've been saving pots for Valentine's, but I'll definitely be on the new variety after that.

This piggy has no parents.

It is, however, one parent of this one:

along with a plain white clover.

It may be like the stars if you breed star x poinsettia you only get the holiday plant sometimes.

Oh, I'm so glad to see it still there. I used it mostly for giving away extra holiday plants, as all others can be gotten with patience, but if I have a bunch of the newest flower trying to get all the variants I liked to give them, too.

Are you sure they gave you fireworks? Because the clover "seeds" look like green and white-striped rockets and the fireworks look like red sticks of dynamite, so the names can be confusing. I haven't tried breeding the lucky clovers yet, so would be interested to know if they truly do give fireworks.

As for varieties, we used to run a trade/giveaway thread after holidays to help people get the varieties we had extra that they might need. It works best if people post the ones they want to give and let others ask for them, otherwise people requesting might get multiple ones that others might like to have. Once you've made a connection, you just send them the "gift" link in a PM.

Sorry, I've been spending less time online recently and have just been watering plants and leaving. I've found this year that breeding Stars with Poinsettias gets you Poinsettias about 50% of the time. I hadn't remembered that, but I think that may be why I always bred trees x Poinsettias to get Stars in the past (or it's a change that stars are a breedable plant or I had it in my mind that stars weren't directly breedable to get stars cause I got Poinsettias from my attempts at breeding them). I have no stars that are from the WG, not even from past years (back to 2011). All mine are bred, so perhaps finding them in the WG was a change from the last Christmas I was here a few years ago.

As far as I remember, Christmas was always most of December because of the need to breed more than one generation of plants to get the Stars. My oldest Christmas tree is from Dec 27, 2011 because it was my first year, but the 2012 trees start from Dec 7 and there's one year in there where trees were shown being gotten from breeding in mid-to-late January (perhaps an error). The New Year's plants are very short-lived, though. More like Halloween for them, maybe even shorter.

Poinsettias are in the WG all year and can be bred to each other all year, so any time you have empty pots and no goal in mind, just raise poinsettias. Try to have at least 8 so you can breed continuously through the cooldowns (but you'll need more if you get flunks from star x poinsettia).

HOLY SMOKES! The lucky clovers are breedable now if you have some from past years. Of course, you must breed them to plain white clovers (add those to your plain plants you need to breed special ones list). I just now saw the "breed" link on them while checking for pickup dates (they are all Dec 30 and Dec 31, just FYI). I haven't seen any in the garden as wild seeds yet, though. They look like little green striped rockets with red cones.

I guess I'm an old woman with a bad memory. Or things have changed in 8 years. I'll go away and play with my plants now. I'm ashamed to have even posted this.

Oh, yeah. You're right. I just saw "breed" on the stars page while refreshing my memory of several years ago and thought they were breedable with each other. I remember now that this was one of the frustrations of Christmas breeding: having enough poinsettias to breed all the trees and all the stars with to get more stars. Sorry. Everyone remember to collect poinsettias in the off season so you have enough to breed with.

You can breed trees with trees, though it says in the wiki they only breed to poinsettias, which was the impetus to post this that you can breed trees to each other. Perhaps the entry is misplaced and was meant to be for the stars instead of the trees.

The Christmas Trees and Wreaths will stick around in the WG for most of December and are both breedable like regular plants, but if memory serves Christmas Stars aren't found there. They must be bred for by Poinsettia x Christmas Tree unless you already have some from previous years to breed to each other. Poinsettias are around all year long--they are regular plants and are breedable with each other all year, but only during the season can you breed them with Christmas Trees to get Christmas Stars.

So if this is your first year, you have to grow Christmas Trees to breed to Poinsettias to get Christmas Stars, so it takes 8-10 days for your first crop of Stars to be grown and 4-5 more for any bred Stars to grow up. If you have Stars already, you can just breed them to each other, so it's much shorter.

The Lucky Clovers only last a couple days right about New Year's Eve. Plan for that. I think the Fireworks are around when the Lucky Clovers are, but they might persist a few days further into the New Year (I'm not sure). Snatch both of these when you see them. Plan to have empty pots, you'll only get one round.

Snagged two Christmas trees. Hope they're the two I'm missing. I'll breed a couple near the end if they're not.

The Christmas Trees and Wreaths will stick around in the WG for most of December and are both breedable like regular plants, but if memory serves Christmas Stars aren't found there. They must be bred for by Poinsettia x Christmas Tree unless you already have some from previous years to breed to each other. Poinsettias are around all year long--they are regular plants and are breedable with each other all year, but only during the season can you breed them with Christmas Trees to get Christmas Stars.

So if this is your first year, you have to grow Christmas Trees to breed to Poinsettias to get Christmas Stars, so it takes 8-10 days for your first crop of Stars to be grown and 4-5 more for any bred Stars to grow up. If you have Stars already, you can just breed them to each other, so it's much shorter.

The Lucky Clovers only last a couple days right about New Year's Eve. Plan for that. I think the Fireworks are around when the Lucky Clovers are, but they might persist a few days further into the New Year (I'm not sure). Snatch both of these when you see them. Plan to have empty pots, you'll only get one round.

Well, crud. My one from the Wild Garden that grew is one of the original variants. Again. The same one, actually.

I bred my two pairs (the seeds on the right end) but I'm leaving open pots for Christmas seeds to start dropping. Haven't seen any yet, but they usually start in early December. Don't want anyone to forget in the bluebell frenzy.

That's why I posted that mine were all Wild ones (as I had none that could be bred when I picked them up). All varieties of every plant can be the bred offspring of two others of that species, there are just some that can ONLY be bred for and not found at all in the Wild Garden. Until there are enough wild ones grown that we know there have been none of that variety found in the wild whether it is breed only or not is still unknown. Once you find one in the wild, though, we know which type it is

I only have one bluebell not on cooldown, so all four seeds and the sprout in my signature are from the Wild Garden. We shall see what they grow into.

OK, my bred one was an "old" variety, so I now have 4 empty pots and with at least TWO new variants, off I go to the Wild Garden to fill them. *Excited*

My bred one should be maturing sometime this evening. Finally figured out how to edit my siggie, too. XD

I have a bred one and a WG one, but neither have grown yet. Has anyone gotten a new one?