Growing Crops

Important information before growing your own crops

 * PlantTech 2 crops act different then vanilla crops. They share some behaviors, but not all.
 * The crops have traits that can be improved with crossbreeding. But the starting values are often causes behavior worse than vanilla behavior, but with better traits level they will beat the vanilla behavior. Example: Water source needs to be 1 block near on beginning, but at the end it is 9 blocks away. These traits-effected behaviors are:
 * grow speed, starts with 90s per stage.
 * water source distance, starts with 1.
 * light level needed, starts with 14.
 * temperature tolerance, starts with 0.
 * Each crop have a soil block that the crop needs to be planted on to grow.
 * Each crop needs a specific temperature to grow.
 * For getting the seeds/soil/temperature information, use the plant encyclopedia.
 * To get the temperature of a biome, just use the thermometer in the biome.
 * Bonemeal doesn't work on PlantTech 2 crops.

Getting started
To start your career as a crossbreeder, you just need cropbars(crafting: 4 sticks in 2x2 square) and a vanilla seed (or plantium nugget). Place the cropbars and rightclick with the seeds on the cropbars. And if the conditions are ok, than the crop will grow. If not, have a look at the next chapter.

Help! My crops aren't growing!
The easiest way to check if the conditions are matched, is using the analyser. Just rightclick on the crop and you will get a message with every condition that is not matched. The conditions are:


 * Water source near enough
 * Light level high enough
 * Right soil
 * Right temperature

Tips
Fertilizers can be applied on crops to increase their growing stage, similar to the beanmeals.

Void Plantfarm is a good machine to use if there's no enough place for you to grow the crops.

Gaining better seeds
To gain seeds with better traits and attributes you need to cross breed.

Harvesting crops
All the crops in PlantTech 2 auto-replants. Just rightclick the crops when fully grown and it is harvested and replanted again. It will calculates the drops and shrink the dropped seeds by one. It is possible that this will result in no drops. Then you would just get one seed, which was used to replant the crop.

To remove while not damage it, you need to use crop remover.