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Wednesday 15 February 2012

Jack's Orchard Growing Guide

I hear a number of you fine folks are findin' your Orchards burstin at the seams these days. Well, all you need is a little bit of maths (I had to get Fanny to do that for me) and you soon realise it aint all that important to have so many trees!

So, I's gonna write up this little guide and a few tips.

Tip 1: The shorter the grow, the less that can show.

I know how you're thinkin'. Those fast growin' trees ain't no hassle so we'll have lots! But here's the rub, because they're so darn fast to sprout y'all don't need that many, especially next to the longer trees.

Think about it like this young'un. A cherry tree takes 8 minutes, a pear tree takes near as dammit 11 times longer.

So for every time you can harvest a pear tree, you can harvest a cherry tree ELEVEN times! Your fancy young mind will have clicked now that we can have a lot fewer cherry trees to get the same end product! So don't go worrying too much about the quick trees, tis the slow ones you've gotta be stockin' up on!

But how many I hear you cry... Well, that's where we get all maff... mathum... mathmet... Mathematical abouts it.

I've gots my brain workin... OK, I've got FANNY'S brain workin' and she's come up with this. This table shows how many trees you need in your orchard to harvest ONE HUNDRED of every single type in the space of a day.

That means if you had the trees in our table below (and 2'200 energy points) you could harvest yourselves one hundred of each of the blighters in just a day.

It aint perfect but it gives you an idea...


Tree
Growth
Time
Amount
Needed
For 100
Per Day
Tree
Growth
Time
Amount
Needed
For 100
Per Day
Cherry
8 mins
1
Sour
Cherry
8 mins
1
Apple
30 mins
3
Green
Apple
30 mins
3
Pear
1.5 hrs
7
Raspberry
2 hrs
9
Spice
Bush
2 hrs
9
Lemon
3 hrs
13
Peach
3 hrs
13
White
Peach
3 hrs
13
Pomegranate
4 hrs
17
Cocoa
4 hrs
17
Peppermint
4 hrs
17
Plum
5 hrs
25
Persimmon
7 hrs
34
Pecan
8 hrs
34
Avocado
8hrs
34
Apricot
8 hrs
34
Orange
8 hrs
34
Frozen
Orange
9 hrs
50
Almond
10 hrs
50
Coffee
10 hrs
50

So, all in all that adds up to 468 trees, giving you another 532 spare spaces in a fully upgraded orchard!

Now obviously that aint all gonna work in reality. Yer gonna want more than 1 cherry tree or three apple trees. But it does go to show if you look at how often you can tend your trees and the general mission bits n bobs (aint likely to have many 100 tree missions) then ya might have a few more trees than you logically need.

Tip 2: Be like the tree.

A tree don't rush, when planning your orchard contents don't think "I gotta finish me that mission NOW!"

Take a lil moment to mosey up to the mission and get a good look at it's particulars. If'n another requirement will take a few days, there aint no point rushin' through those trees for the sakes of rushin'.

Be a little logical and have a little maths and that 1'000 plot orchard seems spacier than a fenceless field!