Farm Town Day Length? Growing / Waste / Storage

[Double T Dude Ranch]

A Farm Town growing day = 20 hours
4 hour crop = 4 hours; so 10% = 24 Min.; 1% = 2.4 min. (Grapes)
1 day crop = 20 hours; so 10% = 2 hours; 1% = 12 minutes (potato, strawberry, watermelon, cabbage)
2 day crop = 40 hours; so 10% = 4 hours; 1% = 24 minutes (rice, tomato, wheat, peas)
3 day crop = 60 hours; so 10% = 6 hours; 1% = 36 minutes (sunflower, coffee, corn, onions)
4 day crop = 80 hours; so 10% = 8 hours; 1% = 48 minutes (pumpkins)

Trees:
3 day trees: Apple Tree, Lemon Tree, Orange Tree
4 day trees: Banana Tree, Peach Tree, Pear Tree, Plum Tree
5 day trees: Cherry Tree, Coconut Tree, Mango Tree

When you buy your seeds in the store, it tells you how long they will take before being ready to harvest.

All crops go bad or spoil in approximately the same amount of time that they take to grow.
e.g. 1 day crop like potatoes take 1 day to go to waste from the time they are ready to harvest.

Crops do not go bad in storage once harvested.

Although you get more money for crops that are harvested and put into storage, you do NOT get more money the longer they stay there.

Fruit on trees does not go bad.


For extremely detailed information, check out the Farm Town Data Sheet compiled by fellow farmer JayG ... http://w1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=221


Please note 5/3/09 There have been some instances of crops growing (and spoiling) more quickly since the last update of the game was released. We have reported this to the developers.

[Kyna]

The Farm Town days used to start at 9pm my local time, however, over the last several days, they haven't been and I'm not sure what time they start now. When I go to tend friends farms, work at their facilities, send gifts, etc., it says I've already done that for the day. So I'm just wondering at what time do the days start now?

Thanks!

[JAS0643]

Originally Posted by Kyna

The Farm Town days used to start at 9pm my local time, however, over the last several days, they haven't been and I'm not sure what time they start now. When I go to tend friends farms, work at their facilities, send gifts, etc., it says I've already done that for the day. So I'm just wondering at what time do the days start now?

Thanks!

Gifts are controlled by facebook so I can't tell you what time they reset. As for tending a friends farm you can do that twice a day, but it has to be so many hours apart and I'm not sure how many that is. I don't know about the facilities how that time works because it is still so new. The easiest way to tell what time the clock resets for you is the next time you refuel click on the refuel station again and at the bottom it will tell you that you can refuel again in x hours and y minutes. Figure up what time that would be for you and that is when the clock resets for you.

[BrookeB]

Originally Posted by Kyna

The Farm Town days used to start at 9pm my local time, however, over the last several days, they haven't been and I'm not sure what time they start now. When I go to tend friends farms, work at their facilities, send gifts, etc., it says I've already done that for the day. So I'm just wondering at what time do the days start now?

Thanks!

According to the FT Help page on gifts, the clock resets at midnight PST (North America, GMT-0700). Mind you, that time may have changed as a result of game upgrades or FB changes. Also, the FT Help page in many ways is woefully out of date.

[Kyna]

Originally Posted by JAS0643

Gifts are controlled by facebook so I can't tell you what time they reset. As for tending a friends farm you can do that twice a day, but it has to be so many hours apart and I'm not sure how many that is. I don't know about the facilities how that time works because it is still so new. The easiest way to tell what time the clock resets for you is the next time you refuel click on the refuel station again and at the bottom it will tell you that you can refuel again in x hours and y minutes. Figure up what time that would be for you and that is when the clock resets for you.

Thanks for the idea of checking the fuel station next time I fuel up..hope I can remember to do that. As for the gifts, I used to be able to send up to 3 per day to the same friend, usually like you said, about 4-6 hours apart..I guess they changed it. Also, same with tending my friends' farms..I used to be able to do so every 4 hours and now it just seems like once. I wouldn't mind the facilities so much but when they all put links to help out in their Facebook feeds several times a day, it's difficult to keep track of whose I've already been to and I end up wasting time (more time than usual since the game is loading slower and slower and timing out..)

Originally Posted by BrookeB

According to the FT Help page on gifts, the clock resets at midnight PST (North America, GMT-0700). Mind you, that time may have changed as a result of game upgrades or FB changes. Also, the FT Help page in many ways is woefully out of date.

Thanks! So they've apparently changed that then..because I'm on PST and it used to be 9pm...now it's midnight...cool..thanks again, I appreciate it

[lulu4804]

I can not work at neighbors facilities. One neighbor only had a windmill producing flour yesterday, the wheat was harvested yesterday, when I followed her link from FB to work at her flour mill I was told I had already worked there today. Something is not working, I don't think its the time as I had not worked at her windmill for a few days.

[lulu4804]

Like Kyna, I am unable to work at neighbors facilities. This is the second day I have gotten the message "you already worked in this facility today". Thank you for your time

[AnnieCov]

I needed sugar for my facilities urgently so I planted loads of sugar cane 14 hours ago. It's showing 64% but it's a 12 hour crop. It should have been ready 2 hours ago but all my sugar cane crops on 3 farms are behaving like 24 hour crops?!

[Tony D]

Originally Posted by AnnieCov

I needed sugar for my facilities urgently so I planted loads of sugar cane 14 hours ago. It's showing 64% but it's a 12 hour crop. It should have been ready 2 hours ago but all my sugar cane crops on 3 farms are behaving like 24 hour crops?!

Hi Annie, not sure if this will help but try clearing your memory cache and restarting your browser

[jemgold]

Harvest has been at 83% for 4 hours and won't finished.