Talk:Mystery Seedling/@comment-220.109.214.254-20101209055425/@comment-3340378-20110113162254

If you harvest an orchard and you find a seedling, it is placed in your gift box, and you have the option to put up a wall post for friends to claim a seedling as well.

If you have multiple seedlings in your gift box, and you remove one and place it in your farm, the seedling that gets placed is the one that was discovered first and has spent the most time waiting in your gift box. It will grow up to be one of the trees in the orchard from which it came. I can't specify whether it recalls the mix of trees in the orchard either at the time of finding the seedling, or at the time that the sapling gets its 10th watering can to grow into an adult tree.

If you claim a seedling from a wall post, it goes into your gift box, and takes its place in the queue of seedlings already in your gift box. When its turn comes to be placed on your farm and watered 10 times, it will turn into a random adult tree. It will NOT reflect the mix of trees on your friend's farm.

So, if you have an orchard full of only Pine trees, and then you find a sapling and put up a wall post to share seedlings, yours will go into your gift box, be the last among the ones already in there to be grown into a tree, and will grow up to be a White Pine Tree. If your friend claims your seedling wall post, it will go into their gift box, be the last among the ones already in their gift box to be grown into a tree, and will grow up to be a random adult Level 2 tree.

When a seedling is "sold" rather than "used" from the Gift Box, I do not know whether it sells off the oldest seedling, or the most recently acquired seedling.