How to harvest
- Pick ✂️ Harvest and tap a plant at stage 4 or 5.
- Read the prediction (fresh stems, drying stems and flower units) and the plant's handling capacity.
- Choose a use. Uses outside their window are marked "outside window".
Harvest uses
| Use | Goes to the barn as | XP |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh stems | Stems | 6 |
| Drying stems | Stems (about 90% of fresh) | 8 |
| Culinary lot | Culinary lavender (needs 3★ Culinary or better) | 10 |
| Distillation crop | Flower units (lavandin goes in its own lot) | 9 |
Rules
- The plant must be at stage 4 (bud) or 5 (bloom).
- Each use has a cultivar-specific harvest window. Observed buds or blooms can open a window early; a plant that has not met its winter chilling need cannot be harvested for flowers.
- Farm weather can pause field harvest.
- Yield depends on the cultivar, the plant's health, the Harvest Tools upgrade (up to +15%) and woodiness (old, woody plants handle less).
- Afterward the crown stays: the plant goes back to stage 2, loses 6 health (not below 35) and 8 moisture, and enters post-bloom.
- Every harvest is a traceable lot in your barn.
Tips
- The Next step coach says: cut when a third to half of the buds are open. The How to Play guide adds: for drying, cut when only a few flowers on each spike have opened.
- Plots reserved for an Enterprise harvest order cannot be harvested by hand.
See also
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