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Maxion: /* Enriched Fertilizers */

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Enriched Fertilizers

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Botanist's Touch

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Botanist's Touch

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Breeding Beetles for Botanist's Touch

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Breeding Beetles for Botanist's Touch

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Flowers

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Cross-Breeding Your Flower

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Flowers

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Flowers

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Flowers

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 ==Enriched Fertilizers==
-You will genuinely need loads of Basic Fertilizer (we go through about 15,0000 a week) though if you actually use the standard Basic Fertlizer to fertilize your flowers, you'll be fertilizing approximately '''forever''': you will need to fertilize each lily approximately 48 times at a maximum rate of once every two hours, and every orchid approximately 24 times at a maximum rate of once every two hours. You will also never sleep.
+You will genuinely need loads of Basic Fertilizer (we go through about 15,000 a week) though if you actually use the standard Basic Fertlizer to fertilize your flowers, you'll be fertilizing approximately '''forever''': you will need to fertilize each lily approximately 48 times at a maximum rate of once every two hours, and every orchid approximately 24 times at a maximum rate of once every two hours. You will also never sleep.
 '''Luckily, we can take the Basic Fertilizer and enrich it to make much better, more efficient fertilizers.''' [[Flower Fertilizer Chart|Enriched fertilizer]] cuts the number of fertilizations '''in half'''. Enriched Fertilizer is made in a kitchen and requires that you have [[Advanced Horticulture]], which is free. Happily, enriching fertilizer is a simple one click process and you can enrich huge amounts of fertilizer at the same time, so this part is fast and easy.

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 Although '''not required''' for bulbing flowers or for the [[Test of the Formal Garden]], [[Botanist's Touch]] allows you to pick up flowers and move them:
-*'''Without Botanist's Touch:''' You plant a bulb and while the flower can be moved under Utilities, you can never take that flower into your inventory again.
+*'''Without Botanist's Touch:''' You plant a bulb and while the flower can be moved under ''Utilities'', you can never take that flower into your inventory again.
 *'''With Botanist's Touch:''' You can uproot a flower from the ground, and it will go into your inventory as a bulb. You can then give it away or plant it again wherever you like.

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 Although '''not required''' for bulbing flowers or for the [[Test of the Formal Garden]], [[Botanist's Touch]] allows you to pick up flowers and move them:
-*'''Without Botanist's Touch:''' You plant a bulb and the flower is where you planted it, forever, unless you choose to destroy it by harvesting the petals.
+*'''Without Botanist's Touch:''' You plant a bulb and while the flower can be moved under Utilities, you can never take that flower into your inventory again.
 *'''With Botanist's Touch:''' You can uproot a flower from the ground, and it will go into your inventory as a bulb. You can then give it away or plant it again wherever you like.

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 You can produce a [[Khefre's Essence]] in about four days this way.
-If you do not have enough beetles to breed to a breeding population of 10, you can borrow beetles for this purpose. There is a public beetle locker in MV by the CS at 930, 4835.
+If you do not have enough beetles to breed to a breeding population of 10, you can borrow beetles for this purpose. There is a public beetle locker in MV by the CS at 930, 4835. '''Please replenish the locker.'''
 '''WARNING:''' Do not run out of cabbage or all of your beetles will escape and you will cry. Do not leave beetles for more than 8 hours; they will begin eating each other to diminish over-crowding.

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 You can produce a [[Khefre's Essence]] in about four days this way.
-If you do not have enough beetles to breed to a breeding population of 10, you can borrow beetles for this purpose. There is a public beetle locker in MV by the CS.
+If you do not have enough beetles to breed to a breeding population of 10, you can borrow beetles for this purpose. There is a public beetle locker in MV by the CS at 930, 4835.
 '''WARNING:''' Do not run out of cabbage or all of your beetles will escape and you will cry. Do not leave beetles for more than 8 hours; they will begin eating each other to diminish over-crowding.

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 *Plant and precisely place a bulb, which will appear as a jug
-*Water it with 100 jugs of water
+*If it is a Lily, water it with 100 jugs of water. If it is an Orchid, just leave it alone.
 *Come back in an hour and your flower will have bloomed

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 ==Cross-Breeding Your Flower==
-*Make a [[Nut's Essence]] and take it into your inventory
+*Make a [[Nut's Essence]] (you can Automato this!) and take it into your inventory
 *Put two different bulbs of the same type in your inventory (for example, a Vampire Sea Lily and an Energy Sea Lily)
 *Find a greenhouse you can use. A public greenhouse works fine.

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 *Fertilize a flower. Fertilize it again. Fertilize it some more.
 *After a given number of fertilizations, the option ''"Check the bulb for signs of budding"'' appears
-*If it is an Orchid, this is the signal to check the flower, and a bulb will immediately go into your invetory
+*If it is an Orchid, this is the signal to check the flower, and a bulb will immediately go into your inventory. Hurrah!
 *A Lily will tell you ''"There are signs of budding, but the bulb is not yet ready to split"'' through several more fertilizations
-*Eventually the lily will finally split, putting a bulb in your inventory and leaving intact the flower you have just spent half your lifetime fertilising.
+*Eventually the Lily will finally split, putting a bulb in your inventory. Hurrah!
 =Fertilizer=

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 =Flowers=
-Egypt has two kinds of flowers currently available: [[Sea Lily]] and [[Orchids]]. [[Flowers]] are planted and "grown" from flower bulbs in a very simple, fast procedure:
+Egypt has two kinds of flowers currently available: [[Sea Lily]] and [[Orchids]]. (The third kind, [[Roses]], will hopefully be available later in the tale.) All of these [[Flowers]] are planted and "grown" from flower bulbs in a very simple, fast procedure:
 *Plant and precisely place a bulb, which will appear as a jug