Visit our Official Plant Tycoon site at for instructions, strategy guides, and much more! * Experience real-time game play, with new surprises every time you turn on the game! * The built-in snapshot feature allows you to capture photos of your favorite plants in various display settings. * It’s a tycoon game: test your business skills and horticultural skills at the same time! * It’s a virtual pet: care for your plants in your own virtual greenhouse. * It's a simulation game: grow virtual plants in a persistent world. * It's a genetic puzzle: discover which combinations will create the 6 Magic Plants. * You can prune your plants to customize the look of your creations.
* Gorgeous artwork with detailed, dynamically-generated plants.
* There are dozens of different seeds to experiment with. * Inhabited by a wide variety of collectible insects to catch and display. * There are many approaches to solving the game, with over 500 different species of plants to discover.
This is the same best-selling Mac and Windows game, now in a universal app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, so you can take your greenhouse full of plants with you wherever you go! Sell some of your creations to fund your research, buy better supplies to use in your Nursery, and purchase ornaments to customize your virtual garden. Grow plants, organize and harvest seeds, monitor your plants' health, age and maturity, and protect your plants from dehydration and infestations. You start with limited cash, a handful of seeds, some soil and water. The object is to breed and cross breed plants until you find the 6 Magic Plants of Isola and solve the genetic puzzle. Plant Tycoon® is a gardening sim game where you nurture plants and experiment with increasingly rare and valuable species. This golden net is made from translucent mesh.Grow your garden and unlock the Magic Plants! When using this net, you don't have to be quite as accurate to catch those sneaky bugs. This crude net will catch any bugs that you see in your greenhouse, but you have to be very accurate with it. Once a certain bug has been added to the collection, additional bugs of the same type will be sold for money depending upon rarity. If you don't, they'll be startled and try to escape. Try to move your mouse slowly when you're using a net to catch bugs. They are used to catch bugs to be added to the Collection screen. These razor-sharp shears cut through just about anything and cause minimal damage to your plants.īutterfly nets don't help with growing plants. Carefully and lovingly pruned plants are more attractive to buyers. These stronger, sharper shears are less traumatic to plants. They may cause some damage to the plants, so be careful. These cheap, dull pruning shears are the bare minimum for pruning and grooming plants. Shears can also be used to customize the appearance of plants, but be careful! No one wants to buy plants if you cut off all the flowers. Use pruning shears to cut away these useless bits so they don't compromise the overall health of the plant. It evaporates more slowly and helps plants thrive.Īs a plant grows, it will sometimes have dead leaves or branches. This special water comes from a hidden spring on Isola. This specially filtered water allows you to water less frequently and makes your plants more resistant to disease. This is just water from the faucet, but it's better than nothing. They are also needed for higher Tier plants. Don't drown them though! Higher quality cans will fill a plant's Water meter faster as well as evaporate more slowly. Keep the soil hydrated to promote healthy plants. The second step in growing plants is to soften the soil by applying water. It is said that some plants survive only in this soil. This rare and exotic soil was imported from Isola at great expense. This ecologically pure soil supports a wide variety of sensitive plants. Robust plants do fine in this soil, but more exotic plants require higher quality soil. Higher quality soil is needed to maintain higher Tier plants, otherwise their health will constantly go down. As the first step in growing plants, soil must be placed into a pot.