Fertilizer

What it does

Fertilizer comes in a variety of colors and is used to give your plants a boost. Fertilizing not only produces higher quality plants, but also earns you awards. Fertilizing flowers makes them grow fuller and produce more flowers. Fertilizing vegetable plants causes them to produce larger, more valuable vegetables. Fertilizing fruit trees allows them to produce more fruit.

Where to get it

Buy it

Regular colored fertilizer can be bought from Costolot's shop. Later, Special Mix fertilizer becomes available from Ivor Bargain's shop.

Make your own

Fertilizer can be produced for you by a Taffly. In order for this to happen, you must feed a Taffly a fruit or vegetable. The Taffly will then produce the correct fertilizer for the plant that produced that fruit or vegetable. For example, feeding an apple to a Taffly will produce red fertilizer, while feeding it a carrot produces orange fertilizer.

How to use it

Pick a color

Plants will only respond to their appropriate fertilizer color. Generally, the color of the plant determines the color of fertilizer needed. For example, a carrot plant needs orange fertilizer. However, Ivor's Special Mix fertilizer works on any plant and should be used as soon as it's available.

Sprinkle it down

For most plants, you can use three applications of fertilizer immediately after planting them for maximum bonus growth. However some plants, such as trees, are a bit trickier and require a different strategy to fully boost growth.

Instead of fully fertilizing 3 times right after planting, you have to wait until certain stages in the tree's growth to fully fertilize it. Immediately after planting you can fertilize it once. Then you must wait until the tree has grown a bit and shakes leaves from its branches before fertilizing again. Wait again for it to shake and then you can perform the last fertilization. Make sure it's watered, wait for it to grow and you should have a fully branched tree that produces more fruit!

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