A Closer Look at Fertilizing

Crop Whisperer:
Fertilizing is just like any other harvesting, plowing, and etc. When you get the option of helping out neighbors, you can also fertilize their farm. There should be a pop up for helping them and then, once you close out of that, you can fertilize 5 plots of their crops. But! You can only fertilize crops in the process of a growing; meaning no dead rops or fully developed crops, and certainly not just plowed land.

But how? Well, if you look at a neighbor's farm after you have closed out of the pop up for helping them out, and they meet the criteria of fertilization abilities, then there should be an icon at the bottom left of the page within the FarmVille game. Simple enough?

There are no limitations on how many crops you can fertilize in one day. You cannot fertilize your own crops. You cannot fertilize the same neighbor's farm twice in one day. You can only do 5 or less of a neighbor's farm.

When you fertilize, it will have the same process of planting crops with the whole process bar telling you the percentage of how much it is finished. After you have fertilized a plot, they become all sparkly.

But wait! What does fertilizing do besides make it sparkly? Well, little kid, it makes them grow, atleast, twice as big and it rewards the neighbor extra experience points when harvested.

If you're visual check this out:
This guide is a little poor quality but you will get the idea and knowledge. Other youtube videos that had better image quiality failed to explain the entire process. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuNzECclK2k&feature=geosearch

Crop Mastery

Stars! Stars! Stars!

Q: What are those silly little stars under my seeds in the marketplace? What the heck is a crop mastery?!

A: Crop mastery is a new little system within FarmVille that rewards you for harvesting different crops. If you earn stars you get coins and XP. There are 3 available stars to earn:

The first star gives you 500 coins and 25 XP.







The 2nd gives you 1,500 coins and 75 XP




The last, but not least, star awards you with a special sign of the crop you have mastered basically informing everyone else that you're a crop allstar. Owning the sign gives you MONSTER crops. (See below.) You also earn 5,000 coins and 125 XP.

Mastery crop sign of grapes image taken from my farm.

Circled in red shows the monster crops. Image provided by Trevor; taken by him, from his farm.

After mastering a crop completely with all 3 stars, you are given extra XP after you harvest them (if you plant then after you have mastered them.)

Each crop has a different number of harvesting that you need in order to up your mastery. If you scroll over the bar beneathe the seed it will give you a number out of _____.

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.