About Fertilizers and Wateringįor the purposes of growing flowers, it’s not worth using fertilizer on them. The next day when you’re ready to go again, move the timezone all the way forward (UTC+13:00) and you should have approximately 48 hours elapsed counting the timezone shift, allowing you to harvest your seeds. Whether a flower crossbreed or not is set right when you plant the seed, not at any other time after watering or anything else.Īfter you are satisfied with what you’ve planted and what you’ll be getting, you can put your time zone back to normal if you want. You can then replant the ones that didn’t crossbreed and leave the ones that did. Change the timezone all the way back again (UTC-11:00) and reload your save to “ungrow” the flowers. Make note of which changed and you want to keep, and which you want to retry with. With the flowers grown, you can see which ones have crossbred or not. You can reload your save (you don’t need to exit the game at all when you’re doing this timezone shifting, only reload the save each time to reload the flowers) to see what flowers have grown. You can then change the timezone all the way forward (UTC+13:00 Independent State of Samoa) to make the plants go through 24 hours of growth time. You plant the seeds with the timezone set to this, then save. To start, when planting the flowers you want to move the time zone as far back as possible (UTC-11:00 American Samoa). You can use this to check each cycle whether you have flowers changed or not, and force as many as possible to be the crossbred color. Plants seem to hold the exact time they were planted, so you can’t affect them by saving with them grown then reverting time, they’ll “ungrow” relative to the time on the save. You can use this to your advantage to move flower growth back and forth in a 24 hour period to check for whether flowers have successfully crossbred or not.
Timezone ManipulationĪs said before changing the date and time in system settings doesn’t affect flower growth, but changing the timezone does. You can start working on this right away in Part One of the story as soon as you have access to Side Quests and can complete “Shopping List” for the lady in Nier’s Village. Items planted in the garden stay there between Part One and Part Two of the story and when you reach Endings, so you don’t need to worry about waiting for flowers to grow before progressing the story. If you leave the plant on the ground for too long (another 24~ hours) the seeds go bad and can’t be harvested. Moonflowers typically give 1 – 3 seeds each, watering increases the chance of getting more seeds. The second where the plant has wilted (after another 18 – 24 hours) and is lying on the ground and you can harvest seeds. Plants have two harvest phases: the first where you harvest the grown item (flower, fruit, vegetable) which then goes into your inventory and can then be used or sold for money.