The Sims 3: Type of Plants, Where You Can Get Them, Value, & Tips & Tricks
June 24, 2009
Hello fellow Simmers. I’ve made a The Sims 3 planting guide for those who want quality plants but don’t know where to start or how. I hope this guide will help you and if you have any more tips, feel free to leave a comment. Happy Simming!
Can’t wait to try most of this stuff out for myself.
- Apple Tree
- Source: Outside in Parks
- Description: Eating Apples after becoming pregnant increases a Sim’s chance of having a boy.
- Rarity: Common
- Skill Level: 0
- Normal Value: $4
- Perfect Value: $16
- # of Produce Before Barren: 40
- Experience Gained: 175-125
- Weed Chance %: 0.1
- Produce per Harvest: 3-5
- Source: Store or mail.
- Rarity: Common
- Skill Level: 0
- Normal Value: $4
- Perfect Value: $16
- # of Produce Before Barren: 15
- Experience Gained: 175-125
- Weed Chance %: 0.2
- Produce per Harvest: 2-4
- Source: Store, mail or garden.
- Rarity: Common
- Skill Level: 0
- Normal Value: $3
- Perfect Value: $12
- # of Produce Before Barren: 15
- Experience Gained: 175-125
- Weed Chance %: 0.2
- Produce per Harvest: 1-3
- Source: Store, mail or garden.
- Rarity: Common
- Skill Level: 0
- Normal Value: $3
- Perfect Value: $12
- # of Produce Before Barren: 20
- Experience Gained: 175-125
- Weed Chance %: 0.2
- Produce per Harvest: 2-4
- Source: Store, parks, mail or garden.
- Rarity: Uncommon
- Skill Level: 5
- Normal Value: $9
- Perfect Value: $36
- # of Produce Before Barren: 40
- Experience Gained: 225-175
- Weed Chance %: 0.25
- Produce per Harvest: 3-5
- Source: Store, mail or garden.
- Rarity: Uncommon
- Skill Level: 5
- Normal Value: $7
- Perfect Value: $28
- # of Produce Before Barren: 25
- Experience Gained: 225-175
- Weed Chance %: 0.05
- Produce per Harvest: 1-3
- Source: Store, mail or garden.
- Rarity: Uncommon
- Skill Level: 5
- Normal Value: $7
- Perfect Value: $28
- # of Produce Before Barren: 15
- Experience Gained: 225-175
- Weed Chance %: 0.05
- Produce per Harvest: 1-3
- Source: Store, mail or garden.
- Description: Eating Watermelon after becoming pregnant increases a Sim’s chance of having a girl.
- Rarity: Uncommon
- Skill Level: 5
- Normal Value: $9
- Perfect Value: $36
- # of Produce Before Barren: 10
- Experience Gained: 225-175
- Weed Chance %: 0.25
- Produce per Harvest: 1-2
- Source: Store, mail or garden.
- Rarity: Rare
- Skill Level: 7
- Normal Value: $12
- Perfect Value: $48
- # of Produce Before Barren: 15
- Experience Gained: 375-300
- Weed Chance %: 0.2
- Produce per Harvest: 2-4
- Source: Store, mail or garden.
- Description: Inflicts Garlic Breath on Sim if eaten.
- Rarity: Rare
- Skill Level: 7
- Normal Value: $15
- Perfect Value: $60
- # of Produce Before Barren: 30
- Experience Gained: 375-300
- Weed Chance %: 0.1
- Produce per Harvest: 3-5
- Source: Science career opportunity, Gardening opportunity
- Description: Reduces a Sim’s age by 1 day.
- Rarity: Special
- Skill Level: 7
- Normal Value: $25
- Perfect Value: $100
- # of Produce Before Barren: 12
- Experience Gained: 375-300
- Weed Chance %: 0.25
- Produce per Harvest: 1-3
- Source: Catacombs exploring, Science career opportunity.
- Description: Plant produces only 1 flower before dying. After being revived with Green Thumb trait, it will produce one more and then be barren. Can save the Sim from death.
- Rarity: Special
- Skill Level: 7
- Normal Value: $0
- Perfect Value: $0
- # of Produce Before Barren: 2
- Experience Gained: 375-300
- Weed Chance %: 0.025
- Produce per Harvest: 1-1
- Source: Catacombs exploring, Science career opportunity
- Description: Fruit provides +5 mood if in inventory.
- Rarity: Special
- Skill Level: 7
- Normal Value: $18
- Perfect Value: $72
- # of Produce Before Barren: 20
- Experience Gained: 375-300
- Weed Chance %: 0.05
- Produce per Harvest: 1-3
- Source: Fishing, Criminal career opportunity.
- Description: Produces Money Bags and cannot be replanted. If a full vacant square is next to it when it reaches “perfect” a seed (Normal quality) will drop.
- Rarity: Special
- Skill Level: 7
- Normal Value: $100-$200/bag
- Perfect Value: $700-800/bag
- # of Produce Before Barren: 10000
- Experience Gained: 375-300
- Weed Chance %: 0.25
- Produce per Harvest: 2-5
- Source: Store.
- Description: Enabled through skill opportunity, after which you will be able to directly “plant” cheese.
- Rarity: Special
- Skill Level: 8
- Normal Value: $5
- Perfect Value: $20
- # of Produce Before Barren: 15
- Experience Gained: 150-100
- Weed Chance %: 0.25
- Produce per Harvest: 2-5
- Source: Store.
- Description: Enabled through skill opportunity, after which you will be able to directly “plant” eggs.
- Rarity: Special
- Skill Level: 8
- Normal Value: $7
- Perfect Value: $28
- # of Produce Before Barren: 15
- Experience Gained: 150-100
- Weed Chance %: 0.25
- Produce per Harvest: 2-5
- Source: Store.
- Description: Enabled through skill opportunity, requires ability to plant Cheese/Eggplant.
- Rarity: Special
- Skill Level: 9
- Normal Value: $16
- Perfect Value: $64
- # of Produce Before Barren: 15
- Experience Gained: 150-100
- Weed Chance %: 0.25
- Produce per Harvest: 2-5
- Source: Store.
- Description: Enabled through skill opportunity, requires ability to plant Cheese/Eggplant.
- Rarity: Special
- Skill Level: 9
- Normal Value: &28
- Perfect Value: $80
- # of Produce Before Barren: 15
- Experience Gained: 150-100
- Weed Chance %: 0.25
- Produce per Harvest: 2-5
- Source: Order Seeds through mail.
- Description: Enabled through skill opportunity, requires ability to seed Burger/Steak Plant, requires feeding. Can not be fed Death Flower, Money Bag, seeds, or household objects, but can be fed fruits, vegetables, fish, as well as non-disappearing books (no recipes, sheet music), to produce one harvest’s worth of multiple copies, before needing to be fed again. Omni plant seeds ordered from the mail CAN be planted by Sims without the opportunity but with level 10 gardening.
- Rarity: Special
- Skill Level: 10
- Normal Value: Varies
- Perfect Value: Varies
- # of Produce Before Barren: 25
- Experience Gained: 400-300
- Weed Chance %: 0.15
- Produce per Harvest: 2-5
If the harvested produce is sold to Grocery Store, it sells at 10% higher value than via inventory hole.
The sales value are as follows, rounded down:
Normal: 100%
Nice: 110%
Very Nice: 150%
Great: 200%
Excellent: 250%
Outstanding: 300%
Perfect: 400%
Tips & Tricks
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Sick of watering your plants?
This helpful ‘Schprinkler’ waters plants on a 5×5 area. Although it seems like a waste of water having to run your sprinkler 24/7 it is totally worth it. You don’t need to go near it to turn it on and off, it’s remote like music systems. Luckily you can lower the cost of your bills by Tinkering with the ‘Schprinkler’ and making it Auto-Water your plants between 4am and 7am, which is helpful as it starts an hour before the growth occurs, and ends an hour after.
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Green Thumb personality trait and Super Green Thumb Lifetime Reward will help gardening.
Sim with Green Thumb personality trait will have “Talk To Plant” interaction with plant which will increase the quality of plant produce. Sim with Super Green Thumb Lifetime Reward will grow plant one level of quality higher than the seed or fruit they planted.
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Search the neighborhood for better quality seeds to start with.
Extreme Life Insurance
- [Friend] fears a visit from the grim reaper may come all too soon and would like a little… insurance. Grow a Death Flower and deliver it to [Friend] before it’s too late. You’ll be paid handsomely for this piece of insurance – a wise choice!
Uncommonly Good
- Bring 20 Excellent Harvest-able(s) to the restaurant to receive the ability to plant Cheese and Eggs.
The Omnificent Plant
- Bring 10 Outstanding Steaks to the Restaurant. The chef at the restaurant has one final challenge for you to complete before granting you unlimited gardening power! You’ve been asked to bring in 10 homegrown Steaks of Outstanding quality. It’s a nigh impossible order to fill, but you must find a way if you want the Omni Plant!
Fertilizing
Fertilizer is used to enhance the produce. The quality of the produce will increase as long as the fertilizer is applied. The list of fertilizer effectiveness-time is below:
Grade & Times
- Life Fruit
- Grade: 25
- Time: 6
- Angelfish
- Grade: 25
- Time: 4
- Vampire Fish
- Grade: 25
- Time: 3
- Shark
- Grade: 20
- Time: 4
- Lobster:
- Grade: 20
- Time: 3
- Garlic:
- Grade: 15
- Time: 6
- Steak, Bell Pepper, Flame Fruit, Blow-fish, Piranha, Red Herring, Siamese Catfish, Tragic & Clown Fish
- Grade: 15
- Time: 4
- Black Goldfish, Salmon, & Swordfish
- Grade: 12
- Time: 3
- Watermelon
- Grade: 10
- Time: 5
- Jellyfish, & Minnow
- Grade: 10
- Time: 4
- Tuna
- Grade: 10
- Time: 3
- Rainbow Trout
- Grade: 8
- Time: 3
- Lime, Onion
- Grade: 5
- Time: 6
- Potato
- Grade: 5
- Time: 5
- Burger Patty, Cheese, Egg, Apple, Lettuce, & Tomato
- Grade: 5
- Time: 4
- Grapes, Alley Catfish, Anchovy, & Goldfish
- Grade: 5
- Time: 3
- Death Fish
- Grade: -200
- Time: 4
Challenges
Master Planter
- A Master Planter must plant every type of plant that can be planted in the game. Once you have mastered the varieties you will be able to reduce weed growth significantly on future plants.
- Note: 19 types total, ca. 5.2% per type
Botanical Boss
- Botanical Boss must harvest at least 75 Perfect fruits and vegetables. After so many Perfect harvest-able(s), the plants of Botanical Bosses almost never die from neglect.
Master Farmer
- Master Farmers have harvested at least 650 fruits and vegetables. The plants of Master Farmers remain watered and fertilized longer, meaning their gardens are more efficient
Level Abilities
Once you’ve reached a certain level you’ll be able to do different things and abilities.
- Level 1
- Will be given seeds: Lettuce, Apple, Grape, Onion, Lime, & Tomato.
- Level 2
- The ability to Weed.
- Level 3
- The ability to Fertilize.
- Level 4
- The ability to plant
- Level 5
- The ability to plant uncommon plants.
- Level 6
- The ability to revive plants. (Green Thumb Trait)
- Level 7
- The ability to plant Rare and Special seeds.
- Level 8
- The ability to plant Cheese and Eggplant. (Skill Opportunities)
- Level 9
- The ability to plant Steak and Burger Patties. (Skill Opportunities)
- Level 10
- The ability to plant Omni Plant seeds. (Skill Opportunities)
World Adventures
- Cherimola Blan Grapes
- Source: France/Store
- Renoit Grapes
- Source: France/Store
- Avornalino Grapes
- Souce: France
- Meloire Grapes
- Souce: France
- Plum Tree
- Souce: France
- Pomegranate Tree
- Souce: France/General Store Al Simhara, Egypt/Farm to the left of the Sphinx
- Cherry Tree
- Source: Han’s Orchard China/General Store Al Simhara, Egypt
- Cranerlet Nuala Grapes
- Souce: France
- Gralladina Fran Grapes
- Souce: France
- Pomelo Tree
- Souce: France/Farm to the left of the Sphinx in Al Simhara, Egypt
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Ahhh, this is exactly what I was searching for – thanks!
You’re welcome.
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I will tell you this is the fourth time I have read your blog and Im diggin it! I added your website to my rss reader. Looking forward to see more updates!
Thank you so much for your information!!!!! I just can’t wait until my Flame Fruit Bush harvest.
Wow that helped me a lot. I have a perfect garden now. Literally. I have one of every type of plant (Including the special ones and everything), cheese plants, egg plants, all the possible types of omni plants, and a pond with all of the different types of fish in the middle. My family is in it’s 27th generation, and the first girl born is always the gardener.
Cool.
I have a stupid question, since I have pretty well got this gardening thing down. My sims all get cooking and gardening mastered as soon as they age up and start the planting, fertilizing, “weeding out” process really early. So far, every family has gotten the omni plant, but a couple of times it took a long time to get the final stage, where the restaurant wants the steaks. —just my experience—
So my stupid question is, out of all these fantastic gardeners, cooks, and fishermen (fisherpeople), why am I not able to revive a harvested death flower? I have testingcheatsenabled, and have tried shifting/click, CTRL/click, and just clicking on the dead plant only lets me discard dead plants. My sims have green thumb trait and super green thumb lifetime reward as well. I just don’t get it. Help me???
I don’t know because that’s the only way you can get it is if you have the green thumb lifetime reward.
thanks Lee for your reply
You’re welcome.
so basically all oppurtunities, the 1st, 2nd and so forth until the last, all i need to do is continue gardening and wait for the phone to ring to trigger the oppurtunities, is this wat u mean?
yea, that’s how I got the omni-plant opportunity…infact I’m still working on that one right now.
how to trigger the 1st step of oppurtunity that leads to the Omni plant? is there any specific way?
You have to get the first two opportunities and achieve them. Then after awhile your phone will ring and you’ll get the omni plant achievement. Basically just garden and wait…that’s all I did.