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GARDENING THEORIES

As always, people come up with new theories or nifty-wifty ideas about what aspectarus of condition-witions affectaru your outcomes. Before startaruging Pikko Pots, Pikko read up on several advanced gardening theories but did not put much research into them because of lack of data. Now that Pikko has plenty-wenty experimentarus to draw from, it is time to look and see whether any of it is true!

HARVEST MESSAGE AFFECTING ITEM OUTCOME

Many-wany people have said that waiting for certain harvest message from Moogle can change what you get. After annoying her Moogle very-wery long time, Pikko now believes that harvest outcome is already set once plant is ready-weady to harvest. However, Pikko has proven that yield can be influenced. (but only in a negative way!)

Pikko do this first of all by accidentaru. With only one space in safe, Pikko ask Moogle to harvest and Moogle says he cannot. So Pikko must clear space yes? But Pikko get distracted and forget and 30 seconds later, Pikko harvest again and gets 12 silver leaves! Of course, this excitarus Pikko very-wery much because it seems for little-wittle bit that this means you can force your plant to give you elementaru ore.

Pikko tries same thing again for 5 long minutarus. Finally, Moogle picks 12 silver leaves. Same thing with next experimentaru, only after 2 minutes, Moogle picks 12 mythril leaves. (these are from differentaru plant recipes)

On next harvest, Pikko leave one space in safe and is unable to harvest. Next, Pikko whips Moogle for nearly 7 straight minutarus asking for harvest. Finally, after long last, Pikko frees up one more space and tries again. After a few tries, Moogle picks 2 fire clusters. Assuming you cannot get only one cluster it seems fire clusters were Pikko's only outcome. But if you have more patience than Pikko, it's of course possible you can get something else.

From these experimentarus, Pikko came to conclusion that by asking Moogle repeatedly to harvest, you can change outcome of harvest yield. Unfortunataruly, you can only really-weally force yield to be lower, and you certainly-wertainly don't want to do that!

ELEMENTAL PROPERTIES - POTS AND SEEDS

Some peoples feel that flower pots and seeds have elementaru properties. While Pikko still could use more hands-on data, the elementaru theories seem to be true. (Pikko will refer to fruit, grain, herb, and vegetable as "starter seeds" and cactus stems, tree cuttings, and tree saplings as "advanced seeds")

Arcane Pot - unknown
Brass Pot - Fire based
Ceramic Pot - Water based
Earthen Pot - Earth based
Porcelain Pot - Wind based

Cactus Stems - unknown
Fruit Seeds - Water based
Grain Seeds - Fire based
Herb Seeds - Wind based
Tree Cuttings - unknown
Tree Saplings - unknown
Vegetable Seeds - Earth based

Looking only at experimentarus that result in crystals and only starter seeds, Pikko found that most yields of crystals were highest in matching pot.

Brass Pot - 20 Fire Crystals while yield in other pots remained at 9-12.
Ceramic Pot - 20 Water Crystals while yield in other pots remained at 8-12.
Earthen Pot - 18 Earth Crystals and a strange yield of 20 from Ceramic Pot. (not enough data)
Porcelain Pot - 19 Wind Crystals while yield in other pots remained at 8-12.

Remaining elementarus (dark, light, ice, lightning) seem to be the crystals with lowest yields. Lightning crystals have highest yield of around 3-9, but dark, light, and ice crystal yields all stay in 2-6 range.

Pikko is still collecting data on crystal yields for advanced seeds.

Looking at starter seed data, Pikko sees that crystals have never-wever grown from seed with corresponding elementaru attribute. Pikko has never grown Water Crystals from fruit seeds, Fire Crystals from grain seeds, Wind Crystals from herb seeds, or Earth Crystals from vegetable seeds. Very strange, yes?

ELEMENTAL PROPERTIES - HOME CITY

A few months ago, Pikko receive e-mail from very-wery observant and smartaru person named Asylvan saying perhaps town element has effect on gardening. Asylvan has many-wany other ideas such as elementaru chaining but those make Pikko's head spin in circles! Anywany-way, Asylvan believes home city elementaru is same as pot found in city. So:

San d'Oria - Water based
Bastok - Fire based
Windurst - Earth based

Pikko is still testing this theory and will add more later.

CONQUEST STANDING

During one set of experimentarus, Pikko noticed very-wery odd success rates between herself and gardening buddies. This lead Pikko to think about conquest standing's effect on outcomes. Because of this, Pikko has recentaruly began writing down conquest standing of nation pot is in for planting, feeding, and harvesting. Once enough data has been compiled, Pikko will report back resultarus.