Pink Dandelions: Pretty And Beneficial Too!

One of my favorite plants in the Spiral is Pink Dandelion.  Besides being pretty when you have rows of them growing (and those sweet faces!), they’re one of the few easy-to-get crown plants .  They drop all over the place.  They provide some great reagents, dandelion seeds and Golden Pizza snacks to sell in the bazaar, and they’re easy to care for without using up a lot of energy.

18 Pink Dandelions

At one time I had all six wizards on my first account growing 18 pink dandelions in two levels of nine plots.  Unbelievable how fast you can amass some great reagent stores with regular harvests of 18 PDs. The reagents dropped:

Ancient Scroll Black Pearl Blood Moss Bone Cat Tail Crystal Vial Lava Lily Spring

If you start growing PDs as soon as you get drops in Krokotopia, you’ll have no problem with all those Black Pearls for the Dragonspyre crafting project.  And for crafting some of the great housing stuff the other reagents (along with reagents from other plants I grow) have kept me ready to craft on many projects.

I rarely feed pets anything but mega snacks since–as I mention all too often 🙂 — I don’t like playing pet games, so the Golden Pizzas that drop at elder harvest net some nice gold at the Bazaar.  Prices vary, of course, but generally I sell them for 300 gold each and generally at least a dozen of my 18 PDs drop one; 3600 gold per elder harvest.

They can drop Dandelion seeds at more than one harvest; I usually get at least one from every plant at some stage.  At the Bazaar I sell them for 120 gold; 2160 gold each round of plants.  You also get a replacement PD seed at elder harvest, so once you’ve fought enough charmed slaves or Kroks or Ronins, etc. to collect 18, you’re set–as long as you never kill one 🙂

They can also drop TCs at elder harvest.  You might get Fire Cat, Fire Trap or Sunbird.  My Fire wizard keeps some of those.  All the rest sell them.  It’s not a lot, as the Fire Cats go for only 20, the Fire Traps, 35 and the Sunbirds 40, but it accumulates when you’re getting 10 or so at every elder harvest.

As far as reagents, I usually work on getting each wizard supplied with 300 of the common ones and 100-200 of the rarer ones (depending on degree of rarity) and then 500 of each in the Shared Bank.  If you have six wizards each growing 18 at once it’s amazing how fast you can reach those goals and then you can start selling extras.  Reagents drop at every harvest and 3-4 at elder harvest.

Some of the reagent sale prices:  Ancient Scroll, 260; Black Pearl, 338;  Blood Moss, 270; Bone (not so many drop), 4; Cattail, 2-18; Crystal Vial, 5-138 (wildly variable); Lava Lily 2-12; Spring, 315.  After a while I’m generally selling quite a few Ancient Scrolls, Black Pearls, Blood Moss and Springs and you can see they really help accumulate the gold!

When it comes to care, they’re easy.  As the above picture shows, a medium area spell fits around the two-stack-18-plot garden.  They only have two needs, Pollination and Water.  They only get rank 1 pests.  So two 8 point medium area needs spells and one 5 point pest spell; 21 energy points a day and they’re thriving.  See here for info on building the garden.

Their likes:  Blue Ball of Yarn, Potted Cattail, Tropical Garden Gnome, Pixie, Snapdragon, Red Barn Farm/Botanical Garden.  Blue Ball of Yarn is pretty easy to get at the Bazaar, although sometimes you have to refresh for a while or make a couple of trips back to get one.  Potted Cattails are very tough to get at the Bazaar and in general (see post and also).  Snap Dragon and Tiger Lily (for pixie)  are easy to buy at all times at the Bazaar.  If you can manage at least four of the Likes they only take 4-5 days to reach elder harvest so you can keep replanting and garnering harvests often.

UPDATE 11/3/16:  In the last year the growing time for these has lengthened so with all likes they take 5-6 days.  If you’re missing a like or two probably more than week from start to finish.  Also, a while back plants started dropping housing items, almost always including their own likes, so PDs now drop Potted Cattails a LOT which ends the issue about getting them.  They’re pretty much always available at the Bazaar and if you grow one crop of PDs you’ll probably have one or several by the time you harvest the final time.

Lots of rewards, easy care.  Don’t have to spend any Crowns or gold to get them.*  Why not grow a patch?

* Among my wizards I’ve varied between wizards who seemed to get a PD in every other battle all the way through KT–i.e. have the full array by the end of that world– and those who had to go back and fight endlessly in order to accumulate 18.  But I’ve been able to fill all those gardens off drops.

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