All Steam achievements in Viridi depend on the age of your plants, so it’s useful to know just when did you plant them.

Whenever you plant a new seedling, rename it to include that day’s date in a format you prefer. This way even weeks later it’s easy to see how old the plant is.



Guide on how to rename them:
http://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=521403161
The game unfortunately doesn't allow pasting text in the name field, so if you want to keep (part of) the Latin name, you need to type it in manually.

Plants mature in about 2 weeks from planting, and bloom in about 3-6 weeks. (I had one plant that took 10 weeks to bloom.)

Based on my own experience some plants don’t bloom ever, so it’s useful to know when to give up all hope on one, and throw it in the garden.

When naming a plant you don’t yet have both the maturation and the blooming achievement for, it’s useful to leave the species’ name in some recognisable form in the new name, so when an achievement pops up, you know which plant it belongs to.

In the case of plants that you already have the maturity & bloom achievements for, including the species' name in the new name is not important.

If you want to play efficiently it’s enough to log in the game every 4 days to water your plants.
(Once I logged in only after 8 days, and none of my plants died, so you might risk stretching it longer than 4 :P) As of 2022 this is apparently no longer true - plants never die, just stay 'parched'.

There isn't much information about how weeds affect your plants, but they don't seem to affect the maturing and blooming, so you don't necessarily need to bother with them.

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Have a nice day!