Update 2.0 on 10-23-09

FarmVille Fertilizer:

Now everyone (not just randomly selected users) can get their gritty, dirty, seedy hands on special fertilizer! You can fertilize 5 plots per person, but not your own. However, you can NOT fertilize dead crops nor fully grown crops. When you fertilize a neighbor's farm you can also help them out for clearing things and whatnot. So what that means, is that you can go towards getting the Crop Whisperer Ribbon AND the Good Samaritan Ribbon. Isn't that neat?

This is the symbol you should see at

the bottom left-hand corner of viewing

a neighbor's farm.

Ghost Chili:

Now (for a limited time, I'm asusming) you can grow Ghost Chili! You make 41 profit within 6 hours. What better way to grow new crops than with neighbors making them BIG?

Turtles? Where?:
How could we forget the adorable new turtles wandering about? Just like any lost ow, sheep, or duckling, you can adopt a turtle!

Image taken of Trisha's newsfeed.

Update 10-23-09

Cows and machines:



This morning we were able to buy a dairy farm. They hold 20 cows at a time and allow you to harvest 20 at a time. You can buy one with 20 cash or, even better, 10,000 coins. They are available in the market. (See Figure 1 and Figure 2.)

Figure 1

Figure 2

More Decorations Too:

Aswell as dairy farms there's a scaredycrow for 22 cash and some spooky bats for 7,800 coins (Figure 3). When you purchase any one of these, you will have the option to post them in your friend's newsfeed.

When you buy the Spooky Bats, however, the tiny bats hover and fly around the gravestone just like the haunted house.

Speaking of gravstones, did you know that you can now send them as gifts? (Figure 4).

Figure 3

Figure 4

More Seeds?:

Yes! Finally! We can plant flowers (besides sunflowers) such as red tulips (which take only one day; just like the sunflowers while the others take 2 days to harvest. Maybe even more.) daffodils, pink roses, lilies that are white, and pretty lavendar. Why don't we all stop to plant and smell the roses? (See Figure 5.)

Here's the Harvesting Info:

Look at what's highlighted in red. That's the most important out of all of this jibber jabber.

Daffodils: You can plant them any time of the day and not worry about getting there at an exact hour beause you an wait as long as 4 days! They make a profit of 30 coins per day. (135-(60+15)=60/2 -> 30 coins per day)

Red Tulips: A better profit than daffodils. (159-(75+15)= 69 coins in one day.)

Pink Roses: (254-(120+15)=119/2 -> 59.5 coins per day.)

Sunflowers: Check previous post on harvesting.

Lavendar: (384-(160+15)=209/2 -> 104.5 coins per day.)

Lilies: (369-(195+15)=159 per day.)

Figure 5

Basics of Harvesting Crops

We're students, right? That means we have studying for quizzes to get to, homework to finish, sports, everything, and anything! Here's a calculation of different crops, how much they cost (plowing and for the actual seeds themselves), experience points gained, suggested planting times (based on when a THS student is at home), and ofcourse, the profits.

name of seed/ time it takes / profit (amount you earn for selling it minus the plowing and the cost of the seed; per plot/ per day) / XP gained (not with crop mastery) / (suggested) planting time(s) / profit (per plot/ per day based on the suggestedplanting times)

PD=per day

PEP=per each planting

For anything that says something absurd like, "Blah blah blah!" means you can plant that seed any time of the day because it takes a day or more to harvest. I was lazy to type the same boring, "plant anytime you want" over and over again.

Feel free to click on the image to enlarge it to its maximum size and clarity. I realize this image makes it blurry. (It should let you; if not then it's being a poop.)

*Certain seeds may not be available to you due to the level you are at.

Personally, I believe that grapes are the best buy since it's not under a strict time schedule. Sunflowers are 2nd up though. Anything below those 2 I'd have to say that rice is a fair bet.

Special thanks to Trevor for providing information on higher crop levels. Currently, as of 10-15-09, he is at a high level of 30.

Basics of Animals

General Info:
There are 3 categories of animals. Ones that you can buy, ones that you adopt, and ones given through gifting. We'll get into adopting in another post.

Gray means that the animal is no longer available to give, buy, or adopt.

1. Buyable Animals:

-Chicken

-Regular Non-Chocolate or Strawberry Cows

-Regular White Sheep

A snapshot showing prices and harvesting times aswell as the sell price

2. Adoptable:
-Black Sheep

-Ugly Ducklings (transform into swans)

-Chocolate Cows

-Strawberry Cows

-Normal Cows

3. Giftable:

-Elephants (for a limited time farmers were able to give this animal during the carnival)

-Ducks

-Horses

-Goats

-Rabbits

-Pigs

-White Sheep

-Regular Cows

Harvesting Animals:

Animals take time to harvest. When they were ready for harvesting they used to be outlined in pink. Now, they have upside down hot pink and pink teardrops above them. All you have to do is click on the teardrop or animal and a scrolldown should pop up. It will give you the option

Here you see 3 swans and a duck ready for harvest.

List of Times and Profits:
animal / time / profit / what the animal gives you

1. Chicken / 1 Day / 8 coins / eggs
2. Cow / 1 Day / 6 coins / milk
3. Brown Cow / 1 Day / 12 coins / chocolate milk
4. Pink Cow / 1 Day / 18 coins / strawberry milk
5. Pig / 2 Days / 30 coins / truffles
6. Duck / 2 Days / 45 coins / down feathers
7. Goat / 2 Days / 54 coins / goat milk
8. Swan / 2 days / 80 coins / swan feathers
   -Ugly Ducklings take 3 days before their transformation
9. Sheep / 3 days / 28 coins / wool
10. Black Sheep / 3 days / 56 coins / wool
11. Horse / 3 days / 84 coins / horse hair
12. Rabbit / 4 days / 60 coins / angola wool
13. Baby Elephant / 4 days / 125 coins / circus peanuts

*Animals do not wilt and they can stay ready for harvesting for however long you leave them.