is my homestead easy pickings?

[Procne]

I think cabbage, cereals and corn take only 3 days to reach full maturity. At least wiki says so, and I haven't noticed it taking any longer. Also, when grinding purity I use coal to bring speed to 200% so I can harvest and resow in less than 2 days.

Now the question is - does fertilizer have any effect on purity? Or maybe it's harder to increase alchemical element when it's high already?
Recently I have aquired seeds with some components above 75. When I replanted them on 8 fields I did get only marginally better products on 2 fields and the rest was worse. Is it just bad luck or will I have to use high purity fertilizers?

Also, I think we have badly derailed this thread

[Procne]

gotcha thanks again sevenless, ok heres another question, just made some flour it was 1.21 mercury purity, ok so i go and make dough, the water appearently diluted it down to 1.05 pure dough, is there any way to prevent this? or is it just a fact you must deal with, also is there any way to get more pure water? glacier, or special areas etc,,?

Currently there is no way to get water with better purity. So you have to deal with that

[staxjax]

Recipes with water suck. The best pie dough you could make with 100% pure flour would be 25% pure...then you would need to rely on the rest of the ingredients being higher than that to raise it any.

[inzain]

ok prolly a simple question, pumpkin farming, do i have to let the crop go to phase 3(aspen etc.. for tier 1) in order to get the best possible purity from it? or can i quickly harvest in phase one, and deal with getting less pumpkin meats, etc.. but still get the same purity as i would have had i waited the extra 2 days?

[Dallane]

ok prolly a simple question, pumpkin farming, do i have to let the crop go to phase 3(aspen etc.. for tier 1) in order to get the best possible purity from it? or can i quickly harvest in phase one, and deal with getting less pumpkin meats, etc.. but still get the same purity as i would have had i waited the extra 2 days?

should wait it out to get the most seeds and meat from it

[Procne]

Well, unless you got some nice bonus to plenty from your SC.
The biggest problem with harvesting early is the fact you might have not enough seeds for replanting.
tier 3 pumpkin = 15 seeds per pumpkin
tier 2 pumpkin = 10 seeds per pumpkin

[inzain]

ok prolly a simple question, pumpkin farming, do i have to let the crop go to phase 3(aspen etc.. for tier 1) in order to get the best possible purity from it? or can i quickly harvest in phase one, and deal with getting less pumpkin meats, etc.. but still get the same purity as i would have had i waited the extra 2 days?

should wait it out to get the most seeds and meat from it

yah plan to do that with one crop, im growing 2, was thinking use one for meat to use now, and the other to speed through to higher purity, if it will let you, if i can get the same purity, at the first phase of ready to harvest, as i get at phase 3, then picking them on day one of harvest would save me 2 days per growth. dont sound like a lot, but considering it takes almost 3 months=about 13 harvests that saves me over 3 weeks time. iono if there is even a way to know, seeing as to how the raise in purity is random, so even planting the same 2 purity seeds, if picked at the same time having differing purity, how could ya tell if picking on phase one, vs phase 3 was different, but i thought id ask, incase someone always picks on phase one, and gets say about a +.05 increas,vs someone always picking on phase 3 gettign say 1.2 increase. thats a big diference. anyhow ive overcomplicated my statement already and didnt intend too. just curious if anyones seen any post from a dev, or thru trial and error might know if picking in a certain phase, effects purity gain.


gotcha procne thanks, yeah i raise plenty to 200% each time, so even picking in phase 2 i should have enough for one field. to continue it.

i was also curious about fertilizing, does adding more and more, also degrade the outcomes purity? cause if so i need to rethink this, right now im putting on 7 coal to bring speed to 200% then about 11 lime to bring plenty to 200% and 3 woodchips to bring upkeep down to 50%. but if this effects purity i definitely need to change this.

[Procne]

i was also curious about fertilizing, does adding more and more, also degrade the outcomes purity? cause if so i need to rethink this, right now im putting on 7 coal to bring speed to 200% then about 11 lime to bring plenty to 200% and 3 woodchips to bring upkeep down to 50%. but if this effects purity i definitely need to change this.

I'm interested in this as well. In the past people used to fertilize with purity stuff to increase purity. However I don't know whether that was some misconception, it was changed, or you still need purity fertilizer.

Although when I fertilize my purity grinding fields with coal and wood choppings only I still manage to raise purity, so I guess fertilizer either doesn't have or has very low effect on purity

[Dallane]

it has no effect now.

[inzain]

it has no effect now.

kewl well ty sir.

im gonna pick one of these, at the first phase, and the other at the third for about 2-3 harvests, keeping a log of purity increases, if theres a dramatic increase in the 3rd phase, ill repost the differences. or if anyone else has done this, please post in here your findings. thanks