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    Why Plant flowers ?.

    Bluebeard45Bluebeard45 Posts: 3,889 Member
    in The Sims 4 General Discussion
    Aside from making a few dollars and a death flower I can't see a reason for the flowers.We don't have any nice vases to put them in and there is flower arrangement.Do Sims eat the flowers ?.

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      moongodessmoongodess Posts: 1,550 Member
      No, but fish do - you can use them for bait. They may also be used as fertilizer for plants. I generally just sell mine for now - or don't harvest them at all and leave them looking pretty in the front of my house - while I'm waiting for a vase to put them in.
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      LadyDarkSorrowLadyDarkSorrow Posts: 2,865 Member
      make the yard with the saturn v rocket look pretty
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      moongodessmoongodess Posts: 1,550 Member
      LadyVampiress wrote: »
      make the yard with the saturn v rocket look pretty

      Especially with orchids and Intergalactic Space Pods, AIR?
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      AnnePlaysAnnePlays Posts: 2,504 Member
      edited October 2014
      But... but... but... I love planting flowers... :'(

      They're really pretty... I'm planning on opening a flower shop if they release an OFB-esque EP.
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      moongodessmoongodess Posts: 1,550 Member
      AnnePlays wrote: »
      But... but... but... I love planting flowers... :'(

      They're really pretty... I'm planning on opening a flower shop if they release an OFB-esque EP.

      I loved TS2's OFB and running a flower shop (although the appliance store was always a bigger money-maker). Would love to see that make a come-back!
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      cully_ccully_c Posts: 655 Member
      I wondered the same thing, unfortunately my flowers don't look pretty, they look like bushes with coloured dots on them, regardless of what I seem to plant lol I'd do more if they looked different, like a sunflower for example!
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      Jimboola11Jimboola11 Posts: 1,850 Member
      I've been stuffing them in my ears and blowing raspberries. Might as well...
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      diddlochcoojdiddlochcooj Posts: 56 Member
      I've only planted the basic flowers you can buy from the computer as of yet, but they don't even look like pretty flowers? They just look like weeds? I'd get flowers if you could plant them to make your garden pretty but..
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      CinebarCinebar Posts: 33,618 Member
      Bluebeard45 wrote: »
      Aside from making a few dollars and a death flower I can't see a reason for the flowers.We don't have any nice vases to put them in and there is flower arrangement.Do Sims eat the flowers ?.

      It's a way to gain the harvest from 20 different plants in the Aspiration if you don't want to go around finding 20 different ones, and a way to gain your garden skills faster. And plant one, sell the rest and make some cash as they are harvested.
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      KrystabelaKrystabela Posts: 143 Member
      I've gathered the flowers to npc them for the cash. I miss having the vases in my house. It brightened the place up. Now that apple tree in my front yard looks pretty good. I think I'll put a cow plant next to it.
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      CinebarCinebar Posts: 33,618 Member
      moongodess wrote: »
      No, but fish do - you can use them for bait. They may also be used as fertilizer for plants. I generally just sell mine for now - or don't harvest them at all and leave them looking pretty in the front of my house - while I'm waiting for a vase to put them in.

      How do you do that? Use them as bait, because I never have any option on the fishing sign or the Sim to use anything at all for bait, (maybe my skills aren't high enough?) or to even use fish for fertilizer. I just been selling them all unless I am working on the Aspirations to help meet some of those particular goals.
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      MirichaMiricha Posts: 470 Member
      I wish the flowers were prettier. And that we could put them in vases.

      I only bother growing them for fertilizer, or to sell.
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      Orchid13Orchid13 Posts: 8,823 Member
      cully_c wrote: »
      I wondered the same thing, unfortunately my flowers don't look pretty, they look like bushes with coloured dots on them, regardless of what I seem to plant lol I'd do more if they looked different, like a sunflower for example!

      This is so true. I hate that they look like bushes.
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      MariposahMariposah Posts: 249 Member
      I decided flowers were too much work and let them die. If I play a gardener sim I might experiment with them again.
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      KatnapKatnap Posts: 2,251 Member
      Cinebar wrote: »
      moongodess wrote: »
      No, but fish do - you can use them for bait. They may also be used as fertilizer for plants. I generally just sell mine for now - or don't harvest them at all and leave them looking pretty in the front of my house - while I'm waiting for a vase to put them in.

      How do you do that? Use them as bait, because I never have any option on the fishing sign or the Sim to use anything at all for bait, (maybe my skills aren't high enough?) or to even use fish for fertilizer. I just been selling them all unless I am working on the Aspirations to help meet some of those particular goals.

      It does depend on skill level. Maybe 4 or 5? I can't remember, but at some point you'll be able to use bait then it lists all the potential things in your inventory you can use. If you choose snapdragons, it will use up all your snapdragons over time. When you run out of them, it will tell you, and you'll continue to fish without bait unless you stop fishing, click again and choose a new bait.
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      SimSiren3SimSiren3 Posts: 301 Member
      The flowers are definitely one of my disappointments in a game I generally enjoy. I still plant them, but I do wish they weren't just bushes with dots on them. I wish they looked more like the flowers in build/buy mode. Or more like the real versions of those flowers (as far as their growing habit etc. I will admit the blossoms themselves are pretty close, esp. snapdragon).
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      blewis823blewis823 Posts: 9,046 Member
      I use them as bait in some waters it's OK and you will catch regular fish with the flowers. When your sim get to a certain level in fishing you can have the sim inspect the waters and they will tell you the fish will eat anything organic. Also using the better quality flowers for fertilizing is great, brings up the quality of the harvestables. After I go around all the neighborhoods and finding all the different flowers to plant, I fix up the yard with different ones I find. Sell the rest. Some are useful for slicing and creating new breeds. Also it fixes up the yard and give a nice moodlet while the sim do things outside. Other than that, yeah, it's useless. LOL
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      CinebarCinebar Posts: 33,618 Member
      Katnap wrote: »
      Cinebar wrote: »
      moongodess wrote: »
      No, but fish do - you can use them for bait. They may also be used as fertilizer for plants. I generally just sell mine for now - or don't harvest them at all and leave them looking pretty in the front of my house - while I'm waiting for a vase to put them in.

      How do you do that? Use them as bait, because I never have any option on the fishing sign or the Sim to use anything at all for bait, (maybe my skills aren't high enough?) or to even use fish for fertilizer. I just been selling them all unless I am working on the Aspirations to help meet some of those particular goals.

      It does depend on skill level. Maybe 4 or 5? I can't remember, but at some point you'll be able to use bait then it lists all the potential things in your inventory you can use. If you choose snapdragons, it will use up all your snapdragons over time. When you run out of them, it will tell you, and you'll continue to fish without bait unless you stop fishing, click again and choose a new bait.

      Thank you for answering! it's nice when someone answers and I don't have to go find a guide on another site. So thank you!
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      mlnov39mlnov39 Posts: 2,294 Member
      diddlochcooj wrote: »
      I've only planted the basic flowers you can buy from the computer as of yet, but they don't even look like pretty flowers? They just look like weeds? I'd get flowers if you could plant them to make your garden pretty but..

      Thank goodness it's not just me who thinks they look like weeds. I don't see the flowers, just mostly bush.

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      enkeli63enkeli63 Posts: 6,637 Member
      moongodess wrote: »
      No, but fish do - you can use them for bait. They may also be used as fertilizer for plants. I generally just sell mine for now - or don't harvest them at all and leave them looking pretty in the front of my house - while I'm waiting for a vase to put them in.

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      colton147colton147 Posts: 9,663 Member
      I am hoping in a expansion, we will be able to put them in vases, open up a flower shop, and give them to other people. ;)
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      MRSMLOGMRSMLOG Posts: 21,181 Member
      If you graft a snapdragon with a strawberry you get dragonfruit, which are quite valuable when they're of high quality. ;):D
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      CK213CK213 Posts: 20,529 Member
      edited October 2014
      moongodess wrote: »
      No, but fish do - you can use them for bait. They may also be used as fertilizer for plants. I generally just sell mine for now - or don't harvest them at all and leave them looking pretty in the front of my house - while I'm waiting for a vase to put them in.

      I am not a fisherman, but that just seems weird.
      Insects, smaller fish, yes, but plants? :)

      Are the plants fashioned to look like insects? I can see that.

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      VlaxitovVlaxitov Posts: 5,798 Member
      CK213 wrote: »
      moongodess wrote: »
      No, but fish do - you can use them for bait. They may also be used as fertilizer for plants. I generally just sell mine for now - or don't harvest them at all and leave them looking pretty in the front of my house - while I'm waiting for a vase to put them in.

      I am not a fisherman, but that just seems weird.
      Insects, smaller fish, yes, but plants? :)

      Are the plants fashioned to look like insects? I can see that.

      I've caught fish with corn before.

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