# Do you need fertilizers or plant food to grow plants?

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**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [November 22, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/do-you-need-fertilizers-or-plant-food-to-grow-plants/4154 "2013-11-22T17:56:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![VampyreLord](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vampyrelord/32/197_2.png) [@VampyreLord](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/VampyreLord)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/do-you-need-fertilizers-or-plant-food-to-grow-plants/4154/1 "2013-11-22T17:56:37Z")

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I was wondering because I planted some blueberry seeds and they grow without me using any kind of fertilizer.

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**Author:** ![John\_Candlebury](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/john_candlebury/32/6437_2.png) [@John\_Candlebury](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/John_Candlebury)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/do-you-need-fertilizers-or-plant-food-to-grow-plants/4154/2 "2013-11-22T17:59:43Z")

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No you dont need the fertilizer.

However fertilizing the plants once per growth stage will make them grow much faster

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**Author:** ![HoundofDarkness](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/houndofdarkness/32/225_2.png) [@HoundofDarkness](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HoundofDarkness)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/do-you-need-fertilizers-or-plant-food-to-grow-plants/4154/3 "2013-11-22T18:45:13Z")

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How do you even plant seeds anyway? Do you just drop the seeds on tilled soil or is their activate function very finicky?

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**Author:** ![John\_Candlebury](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/john_candlebury/32/6437_2.png) [@John\_Candlebury](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/John_Candlebury)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/do-you-need-fertilizers-or-plant-food-to-grow-plants/4154/4 "2013-11-22T18:56:48Z")

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Examine the tilled dirt and it should prompt you.

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**Author:** ![VampyreLord](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vampyrelord/32/197_2.png) [@VampyreLord](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/VampyreLord)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/do-you-need-fertilizers-or-plant-food-to-grow-plants/4154/5 "2013-11-22T18:57:08Z")

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[quote=“HoundofDarkness, post:3, topic:4154”]How do you even plant seeds anyway? Do you just drop the seeds on tilled soil or is their activate function very finicky?[/quote]Get some seeds \> find a mound of dirt \> plant seed with “e” \> Wait.

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**Author:** ![anon388770](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@anon388770](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/anon388770)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/do-you-need-fertilizers-or-plant-food-to-grow-plants/4154/6 "2013-11-22T19:56:12Z")

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Can you choose which seeds do you want to plant?

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/do-you-need-fertilizers-or-plant-food-to-grow-plants/4154/7 "2013-11-22T20:50:09Z")

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no, that’s actually a bug \<\_\<  
You just have to drop the ones you don’t want to plant first for now.

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**Author:** ![John\_Candlebury](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/john_candlebury/32/6437_2.png) [@John\_Candlebury](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/John_Candlebury)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/do-you-need-fertilizers-or-plant-food-to-grow-plants/4154/8 "2013-11-22T21:05:11Z")

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Wasn’t there a menu for choosing the seed? Did it broke?

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**Author:** ![Anonymous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Anonymous1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Anonymous1)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/do-you-need-fertilizers-or-plant-food-to-grow-plants/4154/9 "2013-11-22T21:06:33Z")

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[size=8pt]I tried farming a little while ago. When I had more than one seed type in my inventory and ‘e’ toward farmable land, it brought up a menu asking me to select what seed I would like to plant.[/size]