User blog:Greenny/Quest Plants

It seams that FarmVille have some kind of OCD when choosing plants for quests! Same plants over and over, from year to year! Strawberries, Red Tulips, Spinach, Squash, Grape, Corn... For some plants there is alternative seed that can be planted and you will see that when on some of quest sites write under plant name ANY. That mean that you can seed something other except basic plant.

For some seeds in game exist super versions of seeds. Only benefit of planting super versions is more XP per seed and higher coin income. If you need shorter harvest time this is not a way. Second, more important, is that it will not always count without mistake! I had this problem when I planted Super Pineapple. I needed to replant basic crop but they send sorry email and count my super pineapple but after 36 hours. So void planting super crops for quests, especially since amount of required seeds are too small to affect to total super crop mastery. Also Spinach have Red Spinach as alternative version but since it takes same time to mature it do not help shorting time.

If you need crop with shorter harvest time because you will not be able to finish quest in time you can to try some alternative seed with different harvest time.
 * 1) Corn, 3 day crop. It takes too long for wait and there is Posole Corn that need only 12 hours to mature and it counts for me every time when I planted it. If you have mastered Corn and you are level 54 or above try it. If you have Lighthouse Cove farm you can to try planting Butter and Sugar Corn, it takes also 12 hours to grow and it's available with Lighthouse Cove farm at level 20.
 * 2) Potato, 3 day crop. It also takes too long for wait and there is Kennebec Potato from Lighthouse Cove farm that takes only 1 day to mature. Earlier, before 3rd farm I menage to do the same with Cara Potatoes on English Countryside farm (2 day crop). All potato crops need level above 20 so since that is same level to get extra farms level does not matter.
 * 3) Watermelon, 4 day crop. Alternative crop could be Square Melon that need only 1 day to mature and need previous mastery of Watermelon and Yellow Melon and level 52.
 * 4) Pink Rose, 2 day crop. 1 day alternative is White Roses (level 80 needed) and MAYBE English Rose from English Countryside that need 6 hours to mature.
 * 5) Grape, 1 day crop. If you are above level 29 you can plant White Grape that takes 12 hours to mature. If you mastered White Grape and you are above level 45 you can plant Chardonnay that takes 10 hours to mature.
 * 6) Squash, 2 day crop or Pattypan Squash, 16 hour crop have 2 alternative crops- Acorn Squash, 10 hour crop for those above level 36 or Carnival Squash, 8 hour crop for those above level 63 and Pattypan Squars already mastered.