Greenhouse

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Not to be confused with Glass House.

The Greenhouse is a constructable building in FarmVille. It was introduced on February 05, 2011; the frame with one brick was provided free to players on that date. It is a functional building which allows the hybridization of seeds to produce seeds of Hybrid Crops. The Greenhouse may be built to three construction levels; higher level Greenhouses have more seed trays and so allow the faster production of hybrid seeds. It usually takes three days for each tray of seeds to hybridize, but this time can be reduced if friends help.

Building Stages

The construction materials for the Greenhouse are bricks, nails and wooden boards. A total of 116 parts (38 bricks, 39 nails and 39 boards) are needed to complete all construction levels.

Frame	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3 (Completed)
0x 0x 0x	4x 4x 4x	15x 15x 15x	20x 20x 20x
Total	12 parts total	45 parts total	60 parts total
Seeding trays	Includes 1 seed tray	Includes 4 seed trays	Includes 8 seed trays

Note: The images of the Greenhouse in this table show the actual appearance of the Greenhouse on the farm; their use in Facebook progress messages is not closely related to the actual level of the building (e.g., on completion of level 1, the published message shows a level 3 Greenhouse).

Using the Greenhouse

Once you get into your farm, you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Greenhouse on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later. You’ll need to be level 5 or higher in order to place and use the Greenhouse. If you wind up selling the Greenhouse for some reason, you can purchase a new one in the Market for 5 coins; however, farmers are still limited to only 1 Greenhouse.

Once the Greenhouse is on the farm you can click on it, then select “Look Inside” to see this window:

Inside of a Greenhouse (when it's at least Level 1)

Right now you’re looking at the Nursery display. Here you can find and use the right seed combinations to produce one of the new crops. Just click on the “Place a Seed” display and you’ll see a mini-Market display showing twenty familiar crops (like Strawberries, Lilacs, Wheat, etc.). Once you enter in the right two-crop combination, you’ll be told what the new crop will be and that the experimentation process has started and you’ll be deducted the cost (in coins, listed under each crop). If you enter in the wrong combination you’ll get an error message.

The Nursery display will then look like this when you start a proper two-crop combination:

Starting two-crop combination

In this example you can see an experiment with using Raspberries and Strawberries to make a new crop. Generally this process will take three days. However, if you click on “Ask Friends For Help” you can speed up this process. Each Friend you get to help out will reduce the experimentation time by a day, so if three friends help out, you can finish the experimenting instantly. You can also speed up the process by clicking on “Complete Now” and spending FarmVille Cash (the cost is Template:Cash for each friend that hasn’t helped you so far, so if no friends have helped you then the cost is Template:Cash).

Once the experimentation process is over the clock will be replaced with an image of a new seed packet. Click on “Harvest” and you’ll be rewarded with a new super-enhanced crop (in the case of mixing the Strawberries and Raspberries you get the Straspberry).

getting your Straspberry

Each time you finish experimentation you’ll get fifty seeds of this new crop, which is placed in your Market and can be seeded (similar to giftable Limited Edition crops). You’ll also be able to share this new crop with your friends. It seems that once you have seeded and harvested enough of the new crop to master it, you will then be able to purchase it in the market without needing to produce further seeds in the Greenhouse. This is the only possible interpretation of obscure messages such as "To Unlock Purple Tomatoes, you must have already mastered Purple Tomatoes" (seen when hovering over the 'Locked' label on this seed in the Market).

Share the new crop with your friends

If you look at the Nursery bar you can see that you only have one seed tray to work with. As you expand the Greenhouse (click on the “Expand Greenhouse” button to see what you need), you’ll get access to many more seed trays so you can experiment with a lot more special crops at the same time. For instance, a Level 2 Greenhouse will get you four seed trays and the Nursery will look like this:

4 seed trays

Just click on a tray button to move between the trays. You can experiment with any combination of special crops, there’s no restriction as to which you can try out. There will be a green “Ready” label over the ones that are ready to be harvested.

Clicking on the “Seed Genealogy” button will bring you to the genealogy display, where you can see all of the special crops available for experimenting:

Seed Genealogy

Hybrid Crops

Straspberry	Purple Tomatoes	Long Onions	Double Grain	Sun Poppy
Whiskey Peat	Fire Pepper	Squmpkin	Red Spinach	Lilac Daffy

Harvesting

When a Hybrid crop is planted in a tray, it will take 3 days to grow. You can ask up to 3 Neighbors per tray for help on growing them. Each neighbor that accepts the request will take off 1 day from the growing time. (Please note that you can ask more than 3 neighbors for help, but is currently unclear what happens if more than 3 neighbors accept the request).

When you visit a neighbor's farm, you can harvest seeds from their Greenhouse once a day. This will give you 5 random hybrid seeds. You can publish your find to the Game Feed, and up to 5 neighbors can obtain 20(!) of the seeds you published.