Worst bush ever?

[Tam Hawkins]

I am looking to get one bush with all positive traits and one bush with all negative traits and I finaly got one of them.But that made me wonder.

Clearly most red traits are bad and most green traits are good.

• More berries is alwys better than less.
• Less nutrition uptake and as such less need for fertilizer is better than having to use more fertilizer.
• Spending less time harvesting... to be honest I am not sure I care too much, but still spending less time on it is clearly better than spending more.

But what about longer or shorter ripe duration. Sure ripe duration beeing longer means that you have more time to harvest the berries. But I was wondering, does anyone need that etra time?  I normaly harvest them whenever they rippen and it normaly says that there are 3-4 days left, so the longer or shorter ripe times do not really affect me at least. Is there maybe some case were shorter ripe times are more beneficial when you are away, as you would miss out on the current harvest anyway,  but maybe can get one before winter comes and longer ripe times would have prevented that? I was wondering what others were thinking.

And here is a picture of my new little blueberry bush which I have named "worst":

[LadyWYT]

5 hours ago, Tam Hawkins said:

But what about longer or shorter ripe duration. Sure ripe duration beeing longer means that you have more time to harvest the berries. But I was wondering, does anyone need that etra time?  I normaly harvest them whenever they rippen and it normaly says that there are 3-4 days left, so the longer or shorter ripe times do not really affect me at least. Is there maybe some case were shorter ripe times are more beneficial when you are away, as you would miss out on the current harvest anyway,  but maybe can get one before winter comes and longer ripe times would have prevented that? I was wondering what others were thinking.

Some of the traits, like ripeness times, are more subjective than the others. Sure, it's nice to have berries that will last longer on the bush, in case you wanted to wait a day or two before harvesting in order to go do something else. But I wouldn't say it's a dealbreaker to get the "bad" ripeness trait either, especially not if the bush in question has other good traits like better yields/less nutrient use.

Nice find on the bush though. It might be absolutely terrible for actually growing anything, but it's still cool to find rare stuff like this. In a multiplayer instance, it could probably be marketed as some special variety of blueberry that's very finicky about how it grows.

[Maelstrom]

On 4/6/2026 at 7:47 PM, LadyWYT said:

Nice find on the bush though. It might be absolutely terrible for actually growing anything, but it's still cool to find rare stuff like this. In a multiplayer instance, it could probably be marketed as some special variety of blueberry that's very finicky about how it grows.

Or a bizarre flex on everyone else?  

That's the kind of thing that I'd have around as a "pet" to show off to everyone.  Mostly for the giggles. 

Edited April 9 by Maelstrom

[Meezredeye]

The kind of bush I find 30 of trying to make my starter farm: