Crops not giving yield?

[Phillip Susi]

I planted some Flax in what should have been enough time for them to grow before the winter according to their growth rate as stated in game ( like planted in late august on terra praeta with 80% K ).  They didn't finish before it started getting too cold (Late October, now November) and even the ones in my greenhouse started to take damage ( some of them, not all).  So I harvested them even though they were only in the second to last stage of growth.  I'm sure I read on the wiki that this should still give a reduced, but some yield.  All I got were seeds.

 

[LadyWYT]

No, that sounds about right, at least for grain. Some crops do give reduced yields on the next to last stages, but keep in mind that the cold damage will reduce that yield further. Grain yields already aren't that high, so the cold and premature harvest is enough to eat through whatever there was to harvest aside from seeds, assuming there was anything to harvest to start with.

[Phillip Susi]

Like I said though, only some of them showed cold damage.  Even the ones that didn't still gave no grain or string.  It seems like by rights, there should have been at least two or three string and grain between the dozen or so plants.

Edited Tuesday at 01:13 PM by Phillip Susi

[MKMoose]

12 hours ago, Phillip Susi said:

I'm sure I read on the wiki that this should still give a reduced, but some yield.  All I got were seeds.

As a general rule, grains drop any items besides seeds only on the last growth stage, while vegetables can drop some (~25-40%, usually) on the second-to-last growth stage. There might be some exceptions.

Crop damage is somewhat inconsistent, but it cannot reduce average drops to zero - there is always at least a chance. It is also a bit bugged (#9841), though the bug tends to give more drops rather than less.