The Sims 3

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Botanical Perfection

Botanical Perfection

Grew a perfect plant.

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How to unlock the Botanical Perfection achievement in The Sims 3 - Definitive Guide

This was not too difficult, just make sure you have a Sim who has a little more time on their hands and can use that time to garden.

Gardens can/should be tended too every 24 hours. Make sure your Sim is happy enough and does not have many negative moodlets or is too hungry, tired, etc. Gardening adds nothing positive to any part of your Sims mood, and decreases Hygiene fast, always have them ready too bathe/shower after tending to the garden.

If you don't know how to begin gardening this is what to do. You will need at least 1 Garden skill before you can start gardening. You will have to take a Gardening Class at the Science Facility on the Town Map, go to the Library and read a book on Gardening Volume 1, or go to the Book Store and Purchase Gardening Volume 1. One you reach skill level one in gardening you can now watch the gardening station on the TV and increase your knowledge, and tending the garden will increase your gardening skill too.

You should by default already have some seeds, if not you can go to the Grocery Store and buy some, or look around different parts of town. On the grass in some areas you will see a small brown item on the ground, have your Sim pick it up, and you will have more seeds. (NOTE: Some rare seeds require you to be at a certain gardening skill level before planting.)

To place a seed and plant it you will need to go to Build/Buy mode, then press "X", go to Family Inventory. Under Family Inventory go to the appropriate area where the seeds are (the left panel). Choose the seed of your liking and place it anywhere outside on your property.

Now go back to "Live Mode" and have your Sim go plant the seed where you placed it. You will plant it and then click on it and "tend" it. NOTE: With a larger garden you only need to click Tend on one plant, and your Sim will fully take care of every plant.

Now here comes the part where improvements will begin happening. Take care of all your plants daily. Once they grow mature and start growing produce, you will start getting more to use. You can use the produce in your food and cut down on prices to prepare meals and it helps make better meals, or you can plant those pieces of produce too.

Once you have produce being collected from your plants, do the same thing as above in Build/Buy mode, once in family invetory you should have some produce with a better quality then what you planted. Plant those (feel free to sell your old ones for more money or space) and then keep tending those. Sometimes the quality will increase a little, but for the perfect plant you need to keep doing this. Once you have an outstanding plant, you should be able to harvest a perfect piece of produce from it. Plant that, and tend to it, once it matures you will have the achievement! You will also receive challenge points for each different perfect plant you grow!

Important Information:
Scale from Nice to Perfect:
Nice - Very Nice - Great - Excellent - Outstanding - Perfect

Fertilizing can help with making a plant be of and produce at a higher quality but is not necessary. And make sure never to fertilize with the death fish! Life fruit and garlic are the best fertilizers if you decide to fertilize.

Having the trait 'Green Thumb' helps but is not required. If your Sim does not have 'Green Thumb' you can always use use 'Lifetime Happiness Points' to buy 'Super Green Thumb' (which my Sim had) to greatly improve your gardening. To access Lifetime Happiness Points (obtained by completing wishes), press 'X' when in live mode, Use the bumpers to go to Sim Info, press right, and press "a" on Lifetime Happiness Rewards. My Sim had Super Green Thumb and was only at a skill level of 6 at gardening when I got my first perfect plant.

My first 2 perfect plants were Apple and Lettuce, they both grew extremely fast and increased high in quality quickly.
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17 Feb 2011 23:19

6 Comments
as moose says this is easier than it first appears, this is a good thorough guide, good job!
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By GammyGreenGiant on 18 Feb 2011 09:55
Thanks, I appreciate it!
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By Moose Recon on 18 Feb 2011 16:45
lol, thanks! Feel free to add a + than! It would be appreciated, good luck getting the achievement, hope the guide helps! :)
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By Moose Recon on 24 Feb 2011 02:40
+1, great guide. My first perfect was lettuce as well.
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By iMaginaryy on 09 Jan 2014 00:51
Thanks, glad to hear that you were able to get the achievement!
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By Moose Recon on 09 Jan 2014 02:26
incredibly easy achievement but will take several hours of improving your plants
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By ZhangWei on 12 Nov 2022 02:26
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First off I'll tell you how to garden because honestly it took me a while to figure out at first. Get some seeds (you can find them on the ground around the town), then push and go to the build and buy menu. Once there open the catalog by pushing and go into family inventory. Once inside this menu you can scroll through your inventory and find your seeds. Once you find the seeds you want to use select them and you will be able to place them anywhere on your property. Once you've selected a spot push to set down the seed. After that push and go back to living mode. Finally in living mode select the seed and choose the plant option, your sim will then plant the seed where you placed it in the build and buy section.

This is how growing things works, you grow a plant and when it makes fruits/vegetables and you harvest them the next generation of fruits/vegetables will be better or worse in quality depending on how well they're taken care of. For example if you start off with a normal quality apple seed and it will grow you normal quality apples. Once you harvest those apples it will move onto its' next generation of apples. If you've taken good care of the apple tree the fruit it gives will go up one quality level (sometimes more depending on your gardening skill and fertilzer.) If the tree isn't taken care of then your apples can go down a quality level. The following is the list of quality levels you can get for your fruit and seeds.

Very Bad
Bad
Normal
Nice
Very Nice
Great
Excellent
Outstanding
Perfect

A few things that will effect the quality of your fruits/vegetables are the original quality of the seed you used, the fertilizer you use and the traits your sim has. If you use a better seed it's easier to move up to that perfect plant because it's closer to the top. If you start out with an outstanding seed then you only need to improve on one generation while if you use a nice quality seed you need to improve the seed 5 generations. The seed quality is more of a time saver rather than a helper in regards to actually making the plant better later on.

Fertilizing your plants increases the chances that your plants will improve in their next generation. Fresh fish are the best fertilizer in the game and the better quality the fish the better the fertilizer is. You can also use other fruits and vegetables as fertilizer too but it just doesn't work as well.

Finally the traits and lifetime rewards you have on your sim effect your plants life. The following traits and lifetime rewards will help you with gardening.

-Green Thumb - Trait
-Loves Outdoors - Trait
-Eco-Friendly - Trait
-Super Green Thumb - Lifetime Reward.

Some other things that can help you get the perfect plant is the sprinkler. The sprinkler will help water your plants and if you upgrade the sprinkler (requires level 5 handiness) then it will water your plants for you so you don't even have to worry about that. If you get the auto watering sprinkler the only thing you need to worry about is harvesting and weeding.

Keep going through the generations of plants until you get the perfect plant. Once you harvest something from your perfect plant the trophy will unlock.

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To plant a plant you first need a seed. You find seeds all over the place, like rocks, the best place I have found for getting seeds is Specter family mausoleum. When you have one or more in your inventory go to "Build & Buy", then "Family Inventory" and chose "Sim". Pick your seed and then just put it on a green area on your property, now go back to "Live Mode", choose your Sim and move your cursor to that seed and you'll have the option to plant it. You can then water it and fertilize it to make it grow faster and better. After the plant has finished growing take the produce and plant that, rinse and repeat. Remember to click tend garden because it will water and weed everything at once.

Here is a helpful guide on this achievement which may help you: Guide Remember you can also purchase "Super Green Thumb". It costs 20,000 lifetime happiness points and it makes you produce better quality plants.

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