Garden Horizons Ripening Mechanic – How Does It Work?

Garden Horizons is here and if you just started you might have a few questions about the features that set it apart from the uh… other gardening game. We thought we’d explain the Garden Horizons ripening mechanic to help you adjust to the brave new world.

Garden Horizons Ripening Mechanic

We’ll tackle the big questions first, then the smaller ones.

What Is Ripening?

Ripening is a mechanic specific to Garden Horizons that lets crops gain value over time, even after they become ready to harvet. Let’s run over how it works as simply as possible.

• When you plant a crop, it begins growing.
• Once it is fully grown, you can harvest it and sell it for base price. (It will be marked as Unripe)
• But, if you leave it in the ground, it will continue to ripen and its multiplier will begin to rise.
• If left, the crop will reach 2.0x multiplier, and get the Ripened mutation.
• From Ripened, the multiplier will continue to gradually rise further.
• Eventually the multiplier will top out at 3.0x, and the crop will gain the Lush mutation.

Should You Wait For A Crop To Become Lush?

Generally, yes!

You don’t need to invest any resources other than time to get Lush crops, and they are worth three times the value of the Unripe variant. Leaving them out for longer is doubly beneficial, as there’s a chance to pick up extra mutations, so for optimal money-making, there’s really no reason to harvest your crop until it’s Lush.

The only good reasons we could think of would be in time-limited situations, or if you were eager to get some unwanted crops out of the way.

Saying this, we would like to warn you that ripening isn’t a set time across all crops. The rarer the crop, the slower it grows, and so the longer it takes to ripen. So, for the most valuable crops you should be ready for the long haul. Don’t worry, your patience will be rewarded.

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